Good working conditions for productive plant personnel

摘要

Intensive manual labour is usually not the most pleasant job in a poultry processing plant. Good conditions will make work more attractive, however. Not just that, good ergonomics will avoid physical problems and keepthe staff motivated and productive. It was about the end of WWII when the global poultry industry started acquiring its traits of organised, industrial activity. From there on it experienced an astonishing evolution in every single aspect of the business, markedly and specially after the90's. Advances in genetics, going hand in hand with those achieved in animal nutrition, contributed to convert the broilers of the past into modern, highly efficacious converters of vegetable raw material into nourishing animal protein. Protected by themost modern bio-security and environment management techniques, the birds' market age has been dramatically shortened from weeks to only days. All these improvements contributed to increasing thenumber of production cycles, or flocks, per year while, concomitantly, reducing the live production costs, thus leveraging the chicken meat afTordability and consumption all over the world.