Subjective comfort vote and air temperature as predictors of performance in factory workers.
Volunteer factory workers performed a series of tests in a mobile climate laboratory. The tests simulated factory skills and were performed at 6 degrees, 12 degrees, 18 degrees or 24 degrees C at low vapour pressures. At each temperature four groups of about 30 workers were tested: black men, and women and white men and women. A first order polynomial was used to fit the data for temperature and comfort vote. The comfort vote predicted about 6% of performance, temperature about 11%. On some manual tasks air temperature predicted more than 40% of performance. There were few differences between the groups.
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D002980:Climate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008834:Microclimate; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013696:Temperature; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation