LOS ANGELES - The April 3 meeting of the Cal-OSHA Advisory Committee began with a report by Jess F. Kraus, Ph.D., who gave a thorough account of research his team at UCLA undertook into the effectiveness of back support belts for preventing low back injuries. The goal, Dr. Kraus said, was to evaluate commercially available devices of Lycra with Velcro straps. He said the UCLA researchers were very grateful to Cal-OSHA for giving them a small grant so they could start the study immediately, rather than h
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