New approach to evaluation of the influence of noise and vibrations on the health of employees in car service operations
Authors:
Andrejiová Miriam 1; Piňosová Miriama 2; Lumnitzer Ervin 3
Authors‘ workplace:
Ústav špeciálnych technických vied, Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Strojnícka fakulta, Katedra aplikovanej matematiky a informatiky, Košice, odborný asistent RNDr. Miriam Andrejiová, PhD.
1; Ústav bezpečnosti, kvality a environmentalistiky, Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Strojnícka fakulta, Katedra environmentalistiky, Košice, odborný asistent Ing. Miriama Piňosová, PhD.
2; Ústav bezpečnosti, kvality a environmentalistiky, Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Strojnícka fakulta, Katedra environmentalistiky, Košice, prof. Ing. Ervin Lumnitzer, PhD.
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Published in:
Pracov. Lék., 65, 2013, No. 3-4, s. 88-99.
Category:
Original Papers
Overview
The aim of EU-OSHA is to improve the safety and protection at work and the EU states are therefore asked to improve the quality of the risk-minimization process in the working environment. The ever changing world brings new risks in the working environment, which is associated with the working process of the employees. Consequently the authors investigated and evaluated negative influence of noise and vibrations in employees who work in the car service operations during truck repair. Having analyzed in detail the results of measurements the authors classified the employees for 3rd category of the work risk. The starting material for processing of the group was toxicology at the University of L. Pasteur in Košice. The Clinic deals with the diagnostics, therapy and dispensary (follow-up) care of patients with occupational diseases, serious occupational intoxications and other kinds of health damage at work including assessment medicine evaluation. In connection with permanent consultation of relevant medical branches it takes care of toxicological, specialist professional occupational medicine services for the use in internal medicine, orthopedics, ophthalmology, ORL, psychiatry and psychology. The environmentalist chair at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Technical University in Košice is a workplace, which is well aware of the need of observation, measurement, monitoring objectification and evaluation as well as improvement of the quality of environment. The chair is the place for accredited workplace for the measurement, objectification and evaluation of noise and vibration in working and life environment.
The analyzed sample included 51 employees, men of different age and various work qualification (car mechanic, car tinsmith, car electricians, car painters, coachbuilders, vulcanization specialists, assistance service drivers, warehousemen, locksmith workers) participating in preventive medical follow-up examinations with common aspects of the risk at the workplace which include physical factors such as noise and vibrations.
The entry criterion for placement into the group of data was the work at risk and the time period of work at the operation for at least 5 years. In these persons we observed age, time period at risk, body mass index BMI and clinical signs associated with the work performed. In analyzing the influence of noise and vibrations we based our study on data obtained in audiometric, plethysmography examinations and the water cold test, which the employees underwent within the framework of preventive medical examinations.
Keywords:
noise– vibrations – regression analysis – hearing loss – finger plethysmography
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