Extended workdays in an underground mine : a work performance analysis

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• Personal Author:
  Duchon, J. C.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  "The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) conducted a study at a Canadian underground copper, lead, and zinc mining operation that was designed to study the safety and performance implications of extended workdays. Measures were taken before and after a change from the old 8-h continuous schedule to the new 12-h continuous schedule, including behavioral performance measures to analyze perceptual-motor changes, continuous heart-rate monitoring and aerobic capacity to measure physical fatigue, a variety of self-report questionnaires to measure perceived adaption and satisfaction with the new schedule, and pulmonary-respiratory measures to examine air contaminant exposure. Based upon the overall acceptance of the new schedule by the workers and lack of change in fatigue-sensitive behavioral and physiological performance measures, this study recommends that the mine retain the 12-h schedule. However, certain precautionary measures are suggested to ensure the safety of the workers." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 10005692
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  iv, 10 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10005692
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f2bb27045711ba5386459d6b5f5ae6eb25b9cbaff6cbc40807e986fb9374bb0a3afd90cec7e39356273d6b6d5870702100479ac4747c95bab4b13681a7e2d8be
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10134/cdc_10134_DS1.pdf
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