We evaluate the types and the amount of hazards in a heavy equipment factory and a plant factory to improve workers' health and to determine the priority in occupational health programs.
We first inspected the working processes to find hazardous agents, measured them in each process environment, and compare the results with their TLVs(Threshold Level Value). This study was carried out from December 26, 1995 to January 30, 1996.
@ES The results are as follows:
@EN 1. In two factories, we identified the following hazardous agents: noise, dust, heavy metal fume, organic solvents, illumination, gases and ultraviolet light
2. In the heavy equipment factory, some agents were over their TLVs in the following departments.
1) Preparation Department: dust, Pb, Mn, Fe2O3, NO2
2) Manufacture Department: noise, dust, Pb, Mn, Fe2O3, NO
3) Assembly Department: noise
4) Technique Department: NO2
3. In the plant factory, some agents were over their TLVs in the following departments:
1) 1 Bay: illumination, Pb, Mn, Fe2O3
2) 2 Bay:dust, illumination, Cu
3) 3 Bay: illumination
4) 4 Bay; noise, dust, Pb, Mn Fe2O, NO2
5) 5 Bay: noise, dust, Pb, Mn, Fe2O3, NO2
6) 6 Bay: Pb, Mn, NO2
We concluded that the hazardous agents such as heavy metal fume, noise and noxious gas were required to be controlled at first.
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