Cardiorespiratory Adaptations to Work Volume on an Automobile Assembly Line

Dania Furk, Luís Silva, Mariana Dias, Phillip Probst, Hugo Gamboa

2024

Abstract

Automobile assembly workers have to perform repetitive tasks with varying workload volumes, according to their assigned workstation, on a daily basis. With inadequate recovery, this type of occupational activity has been shown to cause cardiovascular problems. Despite these concerns, cardiovascular and respiratory adaptations to workload variations are often overlooked. This study aims to analyze Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Respiratory Inductance Plethysmography (RIP) data to understand the evolution of cardiorespiratory adaptations to three specific work volumes. A sample of sixteen male operators (age = 38±8 years; BMI = 25 ± 3 kg.m2 ) volunteered from three workstations (H1, H2 and H3) with different work cycle durations (1, 3 and 5 minutes, respectively). The results showed that activities with distinct workloads cause different responses through the data collection in cardiovascular load, heart rate variability (HRV), and respiratory frequency, variability, and coordination. The workload volume and work phase both influenced the cardiorespiratory acute response of the operators on the automobile assembly line, something that could improve individual-specific management of tasks assigned to workers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Furk D., Silva L., Dias M., Probst P. and Gamboa H. (2024). Cardiorespiratory Adaptations to Work Volume on an Automobile Assembly Line. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: BIODEVICES; ISBN 978-989-758-688-0, SciTePress, pages 71-81. DOI: 10.5220/0012587800003657

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices24,
author={Dania Furk and Luís Silva and Mariana Dias and Phillip Probst and Hugo Gamboa},
title={Cardiorespiratory Adaptations to Work Volume on an Automobile Assembly Line},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: BIODEVICES},
year={2024},
pages={71-81},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012587800003657},
isbn={978-989-758-688-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: BIODEVICES
TI - Cardiorespiratory Adaptations to Work Volume on an Automobile Assembly Line
SN - 978-989-758-688-0
AU - Furk D.
AU - Silva L.
AU - Dias M.
AU - Probst P.
AU - Gamboa H.
PY - 2024
SP - 71
EP - 81
DO - 10.5220/0012587800003657
PB - SciTePress