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    Compensating rest allowances: some findings and implications for management arising from recent research
    (College of Aeronautics, 1956-10) Belbin, R. M.
    In November 1953 a research project was started at the College of Aeronautics to study Work Study rating, rest and fatigue allowances. This project has been carried out under the sponsorship of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research with counterpart funds made avail¬able through the Conditional Aid Scheme. At the commencement of this project it was agreed that our special concern would be rest allowances and that we would consider rating only in so far as it became a necessary part of our study of rest allowances. This report is not intended to present results covering the whole of our investigations. The work carried out by.J. A, C. Williams who was any colleague in research until April, 1956 has been presented in previous reports and these are referred to in our list of references. Mr Williams has been especially concerned with the problem of heat stress and with the determination of a rational basis for Compensating Rest Allowances in relation to known heat loads. While this report cannot be regarded therefore as comprehensive it is hoped that for the general reader it will, however, cover sufficiently wide ground to justify some of the general conclusions that are reached at the end of this paper.
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    A framework for compensating rest allowance
    (College of Aeronautics, 1955-10) Belbin, R. M.
    A great many papers have been written on the subject of human fatigue but the complaint is often made in industry that, while many of these studies may be of scientific value, it is very difficult to see how they may assist those who are concerned with the problem in industry, in particular the time study engineers whose job it is to assess the fatigue that work involves and to apply the appropriate allowances. The object of this paper is to consider the problem of these allowances (usually termed. Compensating Rest or C.R. allowances) in the light of scientific evidence. It is not proposed to refer to previous work that bears on this field in any specific way, since a paper which did so would run to considerable length, but rather to evaluate some of the most important material and to suggest the type of framework for C.R. allowances that would appear most rational in the light of available evidence. As this paper is written primarily for those in industry, knowledge of industrial practices and terminology is assumed.