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Assessment of Hot Environment in Foundry Industry using Modified Heat Stress IndexBy Karthikeyan Mathesan, Visagavel K., Nagaraja N., Ramachandran T, Ilangkumaran M, Kirubakaran M
Abstract: Indian foundry industry being one of the highest contributors where workers are exposed to varied health hazards attributed to fumes, dusts, gases, heat, noise, vibration and radiation. In step with the connection between atmosphere temperature and human thermal balance, living environments higher than 35°C or operating environments higher than 32°C were considered as hot environments. In hot-dry work place, workers exposed to extreme heat can experience occupation illness and injuries …
Published in Journal of Industrial Safety Engineering · Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2015 · pp. 1–5 Read article →