The activities of workers in extractive industries occur in unfavorable conditions, as a rule, significantly exceeding the optimal physiological limits and negatively affecting their performance causing a fatigue associated with production activities. It increases the risk of critical errors, injuries, and other incidents, including deaths, and can lead to long-term health problems, both physical and mental. The article provides a comprehensive overview of the key factors contributing to the development of fatigue in extractive industries, including a set of working regime parameters (labor intensity, working day and working week), adverse environmental conditions and working locations (climatogeographic, physical, etc.), individual factors, etc. Identifying the factors that influence fatigue and actively working with them can improve work efficiency and productivity and preserve the professional longevity of employees.
Mamonova et al. (Wed,) studied this question.