身体適性に関連した現場管理者の態度について

Abstract

We carried out a survey by means of questionnaires to know the actual attitude of supervisors in all the sections on the physical fittness requirement of workers. The items were height, weight, chest girth, grip strength, vital capacity, visual acuity, use of glasses, color discrimination, hearing, loss of fingers, function of upper extremities, functions of lower extremities and of waist, physique in general, obesity, and hypersensitivity. Results obtained were as follow: (1) Only supervisors in the section of forging required that workers should have the physique tolerable to heavy muscular work. The values required by most supervisors as the lowest limits of height, weight, chest girth, grip strength, and vital capacity were those in the range of which about 95% of the values of all adult male Japanese are included. (2) As for visual acuity, color discrimination, loss of fingers, and functions of upper extremities and of lower extremities, the requirement was generally severe. (3) About 70% of the supervisors answered that obese workers were undesirable or to be rejected, but a few of them put the highest limit on the weight of workers. (4) Workers with hypersensitivity were undesirable in the image of most supervisors.