New Approaches to the Choice of Personal Protective Equipment against the Impact of Vibroacoustic Factors at the Workplace



Annotation:

An assessment of the experts of the World Health Organization on the main groups of occupational diseases associated with the impact of industrial physical factors is presented in the article. The analysis was carried out related to the influence of vibroacoustic factors on the health and working capacity of industrial enterprise employees.

The importance is substantiated concerning the choice of the personal protective equipment and the development of the activities that can increase the level of safety and harmlessness to the employee health under the influence of vibroacoustic factors at the workplaces.

It is emphasized that an important step towards prevention of accidents at work and the development of occupational diseases among the employees associated with the impact of vibroacoustic factors is the occupational risk management system.

A list of personal protective equipment for employees against noise and vibration was defined, and an approach was proposed for choosing protective equipment and reducing the negative impact of noise, vibration, infrasound, and ultrasound, based on an analysis of occupational risks.  The procedure for determining personal protective equipment against the action of vibroacoustic factors should be included in the occupational risk management system to increase the efficiency of annual activities on protecting the life and health of the enterprise employees.

To identify hazards and assess the levels of occupational risks, it is required to recommend the creation at the enterprise by a local regulatory act of commissions, or groups on assessing occupational risks at the workplaces, as well as a unified system for collecting and analyzing data on hazardous and harmful production factors, violations of labor discipline, deviations from the requirements of instructions on occupational safety, microtrauma, technical incidents, accidental events and emergency situations.

It is required to introduce into the occupational safety management system the proposals for the organization of activities for the periodic review of occupational risk levels at the workplaces and units based on the application of a unified methodology and principles for identifying hazards.

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DOI: 10.24000/0409-2961-2022-10-80-85
Year: 2022
Issue num: October
Keywords : personal protective equipment risk-oriented approach occupational risk workplace защита от шума vibroacoustic factors защита от вибрации мероприятия
Authors:
  • Ilin S.M.
    Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Director Federal State Budgetary Institution «All Russian Research Institute of Labor» of the Ministry of Labor, Yekaterinburg, Russia
  • Samarskaya N.A.
    Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Assoc. Prof., Deputy Director, samarskaya_na@mail.ru Federal State Budgetary Institution «All Russian Research Institute of Labor» of the Ministry of Labor, Yekaterinburg, Russia
  • Simanovich S.V.
    Engineer Federal State Budgetary Institution «All Russian Research Institute of Labor» of the Ministry of Labor, Yekaterinburg, Russia
  • Khomenko A.O.
    Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Assoc. Prof. Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia
  • Yakshina N.V.
    Cand. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), Assoc. Prof. Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia