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Ergonomics - Man in His Working Environment (Paperback, 1965 ed.)
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Ergonomics - Man in His Working Environment (Paperback, 1965 ed.)
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Until quite recently conditions in industry were often rough. Long
hours were worked in insanitary and murky workshops, often with
little regard to the effects upon the workpeople who were
considered to be expendable. Now, however, these adverse conditions
have been recognized and so remedied that there remains little in
industrial conditions to disturb the public conscience. This does
not mean that conditions of work in office or factory are perfect.
The obvious and dramatic abuses of the human frame may have gone,
but in their place have arisen stresses and strains which, taking
effect only in the long term, are generally undramatic and often
unrecognized. They exist none the less. No organized effort to
study the effect of working conditions on man's performance was
made until the end of World War I, when the Industrial Fatigue
Research Board was set up. For the first time, men trained in the
human sciences entered industry to study men at work. They made con
tributions which set a new standard of scientific investigation
into human performance and allowed executive action on the basis of
evidence rather than of hunch. The Board's work differed from the
contribution of Gilbreth in America in that the principles of
Motion Study which he developed were, to a large extent, based on
intelligent observation rather than controlled experiment. During
the 1920S the National Institute of Industrial Psychology was
founded and there was close collaboration between it and the
I.F.R.B."
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