Collection Occupational hygiene, Issue 23, 1987 year
On the hygienic assessment of the working conditions of the drivers of modern sugar beet harvesting machines
M.I. Zakharenko, T.P. Anokhova, V.I. Chernyuk
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Kiev FDI Occupational Health and Occupational Diseases
Tyvrovskaya regional sanitary and epidemiological station of Vinnytsia region
The industrialization of the technology for growing and harvesting sugar beets requires constant improvement of serial and creation of new machines.
Increasing the power and productivity of machines, improving technology is accompanied by a change in the nature of production activities and the working conditions of operators. Therefore, the task of this study was to study the working conditions, some ergonomic characteristics of labor activity and the state of the physiological functions of the drivers of sugar beet harvesting machines.
Studies have shown that levels of some production factors do not always comply with hygiene regulations.
Thus, noise, dustiness and microclimate are the main unfavorable factors on new serial and modernized machines. Irrational arrangement of controls is also characteristic, which is the reason for the forced working posture.
The work of the drivers of beet-harvesting machines in the mode of automated driving in the hope belongs to the I-Pa (energy consumption 174-232 J / s) category of severity and II category of tension, and with manual control to 11a category of severity and III category of tension. In order to normalize working conditions, it is proposed to introduce a set of measures aimed at increasing the volume of ventilation and strengthening the noise, dust and heat protection of cabins, reducing efforts on the control bodies of frequent use, increasing the level of artificial lighting and operational and auxiliary working areas, rationalizing the working posture.
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