Fatigue studies are run in DuPont's all weather room under controlled conditions of temperature and humidity. While subject 'walks' on a treadmill, her blood pressure and pulse rate are recorded in an adjoining room.
Fatigue test attempting to determine safe amount of work for employees is conducted on special bicycle in all weather room at the Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine, Newark, Delaware. While subject rides an electrically...
Planned work means easier work in home or plant. Methods engineers' studies of the job of Charley Chrustowski, DuPont Chambers Works inspector, eliminated 70% of the motions he used to employ in drum labeling. Stretching, turning and walking were...
A stroboscopic camera traces the movements of a man who stacks 50 pound bags. The amount of energy needed to this job is registered on the recording device. Such tests point the way to improvements in job techniques which will reduce fatigue and...
The same kind of work planning which makes jobs easier in DuPont plants also reduces fatigue in DuPont households. Dave Gillon, of the company's Chambers Works, registered for the stroboscopic camera the motions he used in pounding a hoop around...
This one of the laboratories in the Pathology Section of the Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine at Newark, Delaware. This section was organized in 1950 to study the effect on men of the environment in which they work.
Special bicycle with electrically 'loaded' wheel helps staff members at DuPont's Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine study effects of fatigue on employees. Blood pressure and pulse rate of rider are carried by wires to...
Lauru Platform measures energy that a man uses to lift 50 pound bag. The recorder, shown in picture, which registers three individual lines on a graph representing vertical, lateral and frontal motion, is electrically connect to the platform.
In a test at DuPont's Haskell Labs, it was revealed that a woman ironing a shirt uses twice as much peak energy as a man does painting the living room ceiling.
In placing letters in four office filing cabinet drawers, the energy output of this office worker as recorded on the Lauru Platform, was nearly twice that of a housewife ironing a shirt.
