Some Effects of Environment on Efficiency and Safety (Based on the Work of the Industrial Fatigue Research Board)

AIONGST the requirements of modern industrialism, few are more A important than a proper knowledge of the scientific principles governing human effort in work, and none has been more neglected in the past. The lack of such knowledge was clearly seen during the long parliamentary battles that were fought throughout the nineteenth century over every legislative proposal for limiting the hours of work, when no information based on actual experiment was available to confirm or refute