12.7 CAUSES AND REMEDIES OF INDUSTRIAL FATIGUE
●Industrial fatigue may be occurring by unfavourable or unsatis-factory work environment. Unsatisfactory or unfavourable work environment include improper facility of illumination, ventilation, humidity, tempera- ture and problem of noise. All these factors lead to headache, eye strain and some time irritation and weakness. For minimizing these influences on the work, employers must take care of the factory layout.
● Long working hour also gives support to industrial fatigue. Long working hours can lead to stress or mental ill health, decreased production, rate of accident also increases. The remedy for avoiding fatigue is simple to regulate the laws regarding working hour.
● When machine are designed only taking consideration of work not worker who perform the task on that machine. Not stress on the comfort and ease to perform the task then it leads to a problem like workers’ do unnecessary work and also it leads to extra expenditure of energy or effort.
This comes out in the form of fatigue. To remove unnecessary fatigue, machines should be constructed (improving the design of machine) in such a way that workers would feel comfortable while doing work. One of the best method to minimize fatigue from bad design of machine
by practicing time and motion study where wrong, unnecessary and useless movements should be avoided and productivity automatically increases.
● Inadequate rest periods also cause of industrial fatigue. Most of the studies suggest that frequent short rest intervals look like to be more effective than a few longer ones. Too long rest intervals may create disturbance and also workers loses the continuity of the work or gets out of the mood for it. The solution for this problem is to introduce rest periods in between working hours should be depending upon the nature
of the work.
● Physical and mental health also causes the fatigue in workplace. In the case of a physically weak worker there is quick onset of fatigue compared to healthy worker. Emotional disturbance in work place as well as outside the work place, lack of adjustment with surrounding, domestic problem and many more may consume a lot of energy which cause fatigue as a result of mental illness. Therefore, employer provides free medical facilities and also ensures that their workers are aware about the health problems and remedy for the same. For overcome the mental illness workers should be given proper counseling and guidance for a healthy and tension free mental life.