Motion Study
A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman

CHAPTER 11 VARIABLES OF THE WORKER Anatomy A careful study of the anatomy of the worker will enable one to adapt his work, surroundings, equipment, and tools to him. This will decrease the number of motions he must make, and make the necessary motions shorter and less fatiguing. Examples. — i. If the bricklayer is left-handed the relative position of the pile of packs to the mortar box is reversed. 2. The staging is erected so that the uprights will be out of the bricklayer’s way whenever reaching for brick and mortar at the same time. (See Fig. i.) 3. Packs can be piled at a height with reference to the height of the mortar box that will enable stock to be picked up more easily by bending over sideways than by bending forwards. I his latter case is, of course, on work where the non-stooping scaffold is not used. 4. I he planks on the bricklayer’s platform of the non- stooping scaffold, if made of two unconnected planks, will enable the bricklayer to lean either toward the stock plat- form or toward the wall without any other effort than that IO