The necessary information on workload, clothing worn, worker's time-activity pattern and acclimatisation was collected on-site, to make appropriate adjustments to the measured WBGT value.
However, since the currently available information on workload is rather outdated, the influence of workload on income should be assessed in future research, in combination with research on workload differences.
Current information on workload relies largely on contractual information which formerly divided principals into those working in to part-time (two categories), job share or full time which was defined as more than 26 hours per week.
Information on workload is very sensitive as it may reveal a situation where some doctors who may be paid as 'full-time' were in reality spending only half of this time on NHS related work.
Additional information on workload, clothing worn, worker's time-activity pattern, and acclimatization were collected on-site by the trained industrial hygienists and occupational health specialists to make appropriate adjustments to the measured WBGT value.
The questionnaire collected information on membership, workload, efficiency, review procedures, infrastructure and resources.
For the personal study, screening questionnaires were distributed to the waiting staff, providing information on age, workload (hours/week), number of years worked, smoking status, current health and personal details.
If employing authorities…wish to acquire meaningful information on Radiology department workload or individual Radiologist workload, this should be done through the medium of an agreed, robust system of measuring the relative values of different studies, procedures and activities, which is adaptable to new professional and technical developments in the future".
This will provide valuable information on the current workload and will aid in planning for a pandemic (23 – 23 ).
Physical fitness was determined using a bicycle ergometer and Åstrand nomogram and estimated through information on heart rate and workload.
