Natural Hazards

, Volume 74, Issue 2, pp 1127–1140 | Cite as

Effects of fatigue on the physiological parameters of labor employees

  • Junqing Meng
  • Bi Zhao
  • Yechao Ma
  • Yiyu Ji
  • Baisheng Nie
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Abstract

Human factors have contributed to the causes of several accidents. The physiological parameters change law of labor employees before and after fatigue is researched in this paper. The purpose of this research is to find the relationship between physiological parameters and fatigue, design corresponding fatigue monitoring and early warning system, reduce the accident rate and optimize the working environment. The labor employees’ heart rate, RR interval, respiration rate and blood pressure under fatigue state are determined in the laboratory. The change law of labor employees’ heart rate, RR interval, respiratory rate and blood pressure are analyzed based on the paired samples t test by using SPSS software. The results show that labor employees’ heart rate and RR interval have no significant difference before and after fatigue. Labor employees’ respiration rate has significant difference before and after fatigue: the respiration rate decreased after fatigue. Labor employees’ blood pressure has significant difference before and after fatigue: blood pressure of labor employees after fatigue can be elevated. The results provide a richer theoretical and practical basis in what criteria are used to determine the fatigue. It has important significance in the safety management field and accident prevention.

Keywords

Fatigue Physiological parameters Paired samples t test Accident prevention 
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Acknowledgments

This work is financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2011QZ02), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51204189) and National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2011CB201202); the authors are grateful for their support. We sincerely thank the editor and anonymous reviewers’ who improved this paper.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Junqing Meng
    • 1
    • 2
  • Bi Zhao
    • 1
    • 2
  • Yechao Ma
    • 1
    • 2
  • Yiyu Ji
    • 1
    • 2
  • Baisheng Nie
    • 1
    • 2
  1. 1.School of Resource and Safety EngineeringChina University of Mining and TechnologyBeijingChina
  2. 2.State Key Lab of Coal Resources and Safe MiningChina University of Mining and TechnologyBeijingChina

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