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THE fifth annual Report of the Industrial Fatigue Research Board (H.M. Stationery Office, Price is. gd.) has recently been issued. Its contents are nearly equally divided between six articles contributed by the Board's principal investigators and the report proper describing the Board's activities during 1924. Perhaps the most striking development in that period has been in the direction of the increasing laboratory research work, now conducted for the Board in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Glasgow, and Manchester, and concerned with accuracy of movement, muscular skill, repetitive work, weight-carrying, dynamic and static muscular effort, rest pauses, etc. The human factors relevant to accident causation, ventilation, illumination, and the like are also being studied. Research into vocational guidance has been undertaken in collaboration with the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, and into the design of machinery in conjunction with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Three reports of specific investigations were published by the Board during 1924, dealing with rest pauses, repetitive work, and posture; and two other reports have been issued, one presenting a synopsis of the results of the Board's previous investigations in various industries, and the other describing the uses and limitations of statistical methods in such research.
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Industrial Fatigue. Nature 116, 31–32 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116031a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116031a0