doi:10.3850/978-981-08-7920-4_S1-CP08-cd

ABSTRACT

The research project is established to develop a “connection” between the daily working hours and the resulting performance of the workers. The research concentrates on the sector of carcass work, especially with the focus on bricklayer’s work. The aim of the research project is to set up personnel body parameters bymonitoring the working process and the corresponding load and exposure of the workers combined with the achieved output during the investigation. Out of these investigations a connection between theworkload and the fatigue should be determinated for the first time by a mix of three interdisciplinary investigation methods, which were until now only independently used. In this paper the first step to develop the aim of the research project is presented. A task analyses to develop the percentage of a single activity was done. Additionally, the mean workload of bricklayer’s workers was determinated by comparing different physiological criteria with limits suggested by different researchers. It became clear that the overall workload for bricklayer’s workers is under each of these limits but there are large deviations between the rates of the workload for each individual.

Keywords: REFAworkflow analyses, Workload, Exposure of bricklayers, Work scheduling.

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