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ID (ISN) del documento26162
Número CIS 76-2081
ISSN - Título de la serie 1775-8785 - Archives des maladies professionnelles
Año 1976
Número de serie
Autor(es) Monod H., Lille F.
Título Workload evaluation
Título original L'évaluation de la charge de travail. [en francés]
Información bibliográfica Jan-Feb. 1976, Vol.37, No.1-2, p.1-91. Illus. 185 ref.
Resumen This communication to the 13th National Symposium on Occupational Medicine (Tours, France, 2-5 Oct. 1974) takes stock of various questions confronting the plant physician when evaluating workload. Contents: historical background; concept of workload (definitions, workload component factors - including factors outside the workplace -, relative workload); workload indices (task analysis, work from the human standpoint); physiological workload indices (in the case of physical work, examples of studies using cardiac criteria, methods for assessment of mental workload (uses of theory of communications, time-and-motion studies, individual reactions under mental strain, effects of time/stress factors)); evaluation of relative workload (determination of maximum physical working capacity, comparison between physiological strain and aptitude for work; workload in workers subject to ill health or physical disability); role of the plant physician in workload evaluation.
Descriptores (primarios) carga física; valoración de la carga de trabajo; carga de trabajo mental
Descriptores (secundarios) gasto enérgico; consumo de aire; fisiología del trabajo; capacidad de trabajo; ritmo cardiaco; historia; telemedida; electroencefalografía; factores de estrés; tests de rendimiento sensomotriz; estudio del trabajo; tensión arterial
Tipo de documento -
Tema(s) Fisiología del trabajo
Broad subject area(s)
Navegación por categoria(s) Mental workload