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This article aims at demonstrating employees’ opinions on consequences of changes in psychophysical strain on employees, resulting from anticipated changes in the scope of work automation. The authors present the theoretical directions of research connected with automation issues and transformations resulting from that process, with regard to the risks of hazardous and onerous factors. This article in particular addresses the psychophysical strain. In the subsequent part of the article the authors discuss the research methodology and analyze the research results. The last part of the article contains conclusions derived from the analysis.
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The authors of this article would like to thank very much Agnieszka Kuznowicz for preparing the sets of results for statistical analysis.
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Rymaniak, J., Lis, K. (2018). Work Automation and Psychophysical Hazards in Employees’ Opinion. In: Arezes, P. (eds) Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 604. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60525-8_26
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