Recording facts is difficult work, but there is no one who cannot do some of it. It is the duty of every man to face the facts with which he works and to record them. You have come from the crowd of tired workers with an incentive to do this. Here is the method by which it may be done. Summary. Fatigue study is related to motion study in that both are branches of waste elimination. Fatigue study classifies fatigue, and outlines methods by which unnecessary fatigue may be eliminated and rest from necessary fatigue may be provided. FOOTNOTES: [1] See “Motion Study,” p. 2. [2] See “Bricklaying System,” chapter xiv. Myron C. Clark Co., Chicago. CHAPTER II THE FATIGUE SURVEY: WHAT IS TO BE DONE What a Survey Is. A survey is an attempt to record existing conditions. It gives: 1. A general view. 2. A more particular or intensive study of the various parts of the whole and their relation to one another. It may include recommendations for improvement, but its primary purpose is to record what actually exists. The survey is a _systematic_ study of existing conditions. Those making it have always a well-defined plan in mind. It is necessary, in order to maintain a proper balance for the completed survey, to give a properly proportioned representation of what happens, with no element omitted or over-emphasized. The General Survey and the Fatigue Survey. The fatigue survey should be a department of the general survey. A description of the apparent causes of fatigue, or of the devices present that eliminate fatigue, can mean little without the accompanying description of the worker, the conditions of the work and the work itself. The fatigue survey might be made without a general survey. From the results, fatigue might be eliminated, or better means for overcoming fatigue provided, but there would be no assurance that the records applied would be efficient, or do lasting good, if the causes of fatigue were not understood. The causes could not be understood without the general survey. The fatigue element receives more emphasis than any other element of the general survey. We look for fatigue first, last, and all the time, but we record with it all the attending circumstances that we can observe or discover. The Aims of the Fatigue Survey. The fatigue survey aims: 1. To present an accurate picture of existing conditions from the fatigue standpoint. 2. To enable all interested in fatigue elimination to visualize the problem thoroughly. 3. To divide the problem of fatigue elimination into such working units that it may be possible to attack the problem successfully from the start. 4. To arouse the interest of every member of the organization in fatigue and its elimination. 5. To show the relation between fatigue and activity. 6. To teach every member of the organization to conserve his working powers. The Time and Place of Making the Survey.