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The increased work pace of the operators in a human-machine production task resulting from the provision of an assigned hard-task production standard in conjunction with production quantity and quality feedback, did not have a significant adverse effect on worker physiological cost. The operators who were provided with this experimental condition had an average first recovery heart/pulse rate of 81 beats per minute (bpm), which was within the normal range of 60 and 100 bpm for light work load and certainly within the safe limit of 110 bpm. Some of the operators pulse rate did not change, while for some other operators it even went down after the task performance. The pulse rate of some of the operators showed no recovery while some other operators pulse rate showed reverse or negative recovery.

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Relationship of Work Pace to Worker Physiological Cost in a Human-Machine Production Task

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