Surgery and scientific labor organization

The tasks of the scientific organization of labor, as an applied science, are to study the methods of the greatest rationalization of work in various branches and to raise labor productivity while preserving the strength and health of the workers. Thus, the object of the SLO is, on the one hand, the improvement and mechanization of production, and on the other hand, the rational use of manpower; at the same time, the SLO seeks to save the worker, to preserve his interest in his work and to reduce the total time of work. Here, as we can see, the elements of dead and living energy collide. The latter circumstance connects SLO with the scientific advances of medicine and, most of all, with physiology. Acad. V. M. Bekhterev, Prof. Dürig and Phys. I. M. Burdiansky. Medical knowledge in the field of prophylaxis and pathology of occupational diseases gives the richest material for conclusions concerning the rational organization of a worker's work in order to preserve his health. But, if SLO in many issues is based on the achievements of medicine, then the reverse medical and sanitary business is almost not conducted according to the principles of rationalization of labor.