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Document ID (ISN)20979
CIS number 74-1176
Year 1972
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Radjef Y.
Title Critical study of methods of assessing fatigue for occupational health purposes
Original title Etude critique des méthodes d'appréciation de la fatigue en médecine du travail. [in French]
Bibliographic information Université de Paris VI, Faculté de médecine St-Antoine, Paris, France, 1972. 88p. 62 ref.
Abstract M.D. thesis. Part 1: physiopathological study of fatigue (muscular, sensorial, cerebral, mental). The examination of various exploratory and measurement fatigue tests (energy expenditure, physiological, muscular, sensorial, chemical, psychotechnical, psychological and mental tests), which is the subject of chapter 2, enables the author to conclude that at the present time there do not exist, for all practical purposes, any objective and unchallengeable criteria of fatigue. Part 3 describes the methods used and the results of a recent physiological study on the degree of physical stress of mine work in a highly mechanised pit with self-advancing roof support. This study, carried out by monitoring the recovery pulse, confirms the theory that valid tests for investigating physical load exist in medicine. However, factors causing variability are so numerous that the results obtained are approximate. They could nevertheless be used to some extent to improve working conditions.
Descriptors (primary) fatigue assessment; fatigue
Descriptors (secondary) France; heavy work; underground work; nervous fatigue; physical fatigue; pulse rate; ergometric tests; human experiments; thesis
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Occupational physiology
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Fatigue