Acta Mechanica Slovaca 2017, 21(4):52-59 | DOI: 10.21496/ams.2017.037

A Methodology for Assessing the Quality of Working Environment: Example of Research Proposal

Miriama Piňosová^1,*, Miriam Andrejiová²

¹ Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Process and Environmental Engineering, Park Komenského 5, Košice, Slovakia

² Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Letná 9, Košice, Slovakia

Objectives: This contribution is devoted to the experimental proposal of the methodology for a comprehensive assessment of the working environment quality.

Methods: The evaluation was based on a basic assumption that the human organism during its work on different jobs affects various risk factors. We assume an ideal working environment with optimal or "zero" values of operating factors. Before determining the appropriate method of evaluation is appropriate to combine qualitative and quantitative assessment, creating a system for evaluating the parameters of the working environment that reflects: the nature of the impact parameters of the working environment, duration of effect, simultaneously operating range of risk factors and magnitude of the impact of individual parameters of the working environment.

Results: The evaluation process in this case, enters workplace factors: noise, vibration, lighting, dust, electromagnetic fields, radiant heat and ergonomics, stress and safety factors. The most important step is the selection and evaluation that will be based on an evaluation of information and also interviewed people from expert's evaluation. The experiment was focused on four basic physical factors (noise, vibration, dust and lighting) working environment, which are among the most risky in terms of assessing the health of employees and duration of exposure in the workplace during their work shift.

Conclusions: Computation of the final evaluation factor level work environment in workplace is real work load value equal to J = 0.5027. In the final step of the proposed methodology based on point spread, we concluded that the risk is insignificant, the system is safe. The methodology presented in this paper describes the authors' idea about how to resolve this issue. The presented results are based on past experience in the field of measurement and evaluation of environmental factors, the authors actually perform.

Keywords: Saaty methods, risk assessment, comprehensive assessment, experimental proposal

Published: October 31, 2017  Show citation