Breaking the Fatigue Cycle: Investigating the Effect of Work-Rest Schedules on Muscle Fatigue in Material Handling Jobs
Karla Beltran Martinez, Milad Nazarahari, Hossein Rouhani, Lili Liu, Georg Fischer, Antonio Miguel-Cruz · 2023
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Description
Beltran Martinez and co-authors tested whether breaks or stretching during a shift reduce muscle fatigue in material handling work. Fatigue is a main driver of work-related muscle and joint disorders. Volunteers repeated a handling task under three schedules: no breaks, small breaks, and breaks with a stretching routine. Muscle activity sensors and a wearable-based movement score tracked fatigue objectively.
Both rest schedules cut fatigue significantly compared with working straight through, and stretching added no clear extra benefit over breaks alone in the reported results. Output did not drop under any schedule. The authors conclude that small breaks during a shift can meaningfully lower fatigue, and with it the likely risk of workplace disorders, at no cost to productivity. The text byline names fewer authors than the catalog record, so team framing is used.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Karla Beltran Martinez, Milad Nazarahari, Hossein Rouhani, Lili Liu, Georg Fischer, Antonio Miguel-Cruz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |