The report contains results of a study of hearing loss in the underground coal mining industry. Hearing tests are given to 1500 miners by NIOSH at 11 randomly selected coal mines in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Noise surveys are performed at the same mines by personnel of the Mining En
The ergonomics society annual conference: University of Aston in Birmingham, 26–29th April, 1977
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 813 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-6870
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✦ Synopsis
was well attended with a total of 175 delegates registered at the start of the proceedings. This year there were a number of welcome innovations. Foremost amongst these was the designation of the first day as an 'Industrial Day' at which papers were presented both on specific work-place improvement projects and the important topic of job design. Other sessions were devoted to the physical work environment; mental workload and stress; physical workload and strain; complex control and job aids; transport ergonomics -vibration and driver behaviour; human errorreliability in systems; man-computer interaction; protective clothing; ergonomics cost-benefits; and inspection and monitoring.
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