The effects of repetition on the body
Repetition reduces your working capacity
Some jobs obviously are dependant upon the speed of some mechanised process such as product coming off the end of a conveyor. In these cases the effects of repetition become important to the manual handling task. It has been noted that the capacity reduction of the human body reduces with repetition. This is a pretty obvious statement as it can be readily seen that carrying one load a distance is a lot easier than carrying several load one after the other. The capacity reduction to be expected are:
- One movement a minute to one every two minutes = one third
- One movement a minute to six movements a minute = one half
- Six movements a minute to twelve movements a minute = two thirds
Some jobs obviously are dependant upon the speed of some mechanised process such as product coming off the end of a conveyor. In these cases the effects of repetition become important to the manual handling task. It has been noted that the capacity reduction of the human body reduces with repetition. This is a pretty obvious statement as it can be readily seen that carrying one load a distance is a lot easier than carrying several load one after the other. The capacity reduction to be expected are:
- One movement a minute to one every two minutes = one third
- One movement a minute to six movements a minute = one half
- Six movements a minute to twelve movements a minute = two thirds
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