Poorly maintained equipment can limit productivity and may even cause or contribute to injuries.

Although it has become the staple of commercials and sitcoms, heartburn can limit activities and productivity.

It is thus a major sink for fixed nitrogen and so limits oceanic primary productivity.

Recent years have seen a further decline in the area, as the severe drought affecting most of New South Wales has limited agricultural productivity.

That is limiting potential productivity, perhaps, but it is also providing at least a few hours of escape for business managers from their 24/7 connection to the home office.

Thailand's growing shortage of engineers and skilled technical personnel may limit its future technological creativity and productivity.

Such distractions limit productivity.

First, they've tried to alleviate whatever is limiting local productivity, usually by irrigation or adding fertilisers.

"Soil nutrients limit aboveground productivity in mature lowland tropical forests of Southwestern Borneo".

Silica and iron, as well as several trace elements, may also be considered important marine nutrients as the lack of one can limit the growth of, or productivity in, an area.