Standard Regulation of Occupational Health Requirements of Heat Environments at SMEs

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10.2991/icoposdev-17.2018.11How to use a DOI?

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SNI, HSI, WBGT, DLE, SME

Abstract

Health work environment is one of the determining factors in the improvement of the quality and productivity of work in an enterprise. Health observation work on most small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are often overlooked. But on the other hand is around 80% of Indonesia's economy is sustained by SMES. In this study, the observation is done at one of the SME food processed ubi. The problem was found on the floor of the production was the workers suffered exposure to heat from the working space temperature of 27oC until 29oC with doing the job that categorized the weight along the 8-hours of work. The temperature has exceeded the threshold Value (NAB) set by the Indonesia national standard (SNI) 16-7063-2004 and Regulation of the Minister of Health No. 70 Year 2016. This heat exposure affects the performance of the work and the long-term effects of stimulate i.e. the occurrence of enlarged blood vessels may result in fatal condition/stroke. The purpose of this research is to create a work environment that is healthy and comfortable through the thermal condition improvement in production floor. Thermal analysis is done by calculating the heat stress index (HSI), the value of the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT), and the old maximum heat exposure recommendations allowed (duration limited exposure). The results showed the average value of HSI 95.13% indicating that exposure is on the level of heat pressure is very heavy. Standard assessment above uses standard NIOSH-based climate data America. These findings indicate that the indicators used in the SNI 16-7063-2004 and Regulation of the Minister of Health No. 70 Year 2016 is a necessary adjustment to applied work set up the climate in Indonesia.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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