scholarly journals SELECTION AND JUSTIFICATION OF COMFORTABLE MICROCLIMATE PARAMETERS FOR OFFICE PREMISES

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (48) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
G. Khimicheva ◽  
O. Dziuba
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
International Standards

The paper analyzes the requirements of international standards for the parameters that determine the comfortable working conditions in office premises, in particular when working with the computer. It has been proposed to determine the microclimate of office premises by four parameters and it is shown that one of the promising methods is a method based on the calculation of two indicators that specify the degree of comfort, taking into account the requirements of potential consumers. The application of the proposed methods and approaches allows to reasonably choose the microclimate parameters (temperature, humidity, air quality, and electrical radiation) that affect the life and health of the worker.Keywords: microclimate parameters, international standards, comfortable working conditions, office premises.

Challenges of Media Education Standards in Georgia

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marine Vekua
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
International Standards ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

The main goal of this research is to determine whether the journalism education of the leading media schools inGeorgia is adequate to modern media market’s demands and challenges. The right answer to this main questionwas found after analyzing Georgian media market’s demands, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, differentaspects of journalism education in Georgia: the historical background, development trends, evaluation ofeducational programs and curricula designs, reflection of international standards in teaching methods, studyingand working conditions.

scholarly journals Investigations of Museum Indoor Microclimate and Air Quality. Case Study from Romania

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
Dorina Camelia Ilieș ◽  
Florin Marcu ◽  
Tudor Caciora ◽  
Liliana Indrie ◽  
Alexandru Ilieș ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Volatile Organic Compounds ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Total Volatile ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Museum Exhibits ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Total Volatile Organic Compounds

Poor air quality inside museums is one of the main causes influencing the state of conservation of exhibits. Even if they are mostly placed in a controlled environment because of their construction materials, the exhibits can be very vulnerable to the influence of the internal microclimate. As a consequence, museum exhibits must be protected from potential negative effects. In order to prevent and stop the process of damage of the exhibits, monitoring the main parameters of the microclimate (especially temperature, humidity, and brightness) and keeping them in strict values is extremely important. The present study refers to the investigations and analysis of air quality inside a museum, located in a heritage building, from Romania. The paper focuses on monitoring and analysing temperature of air and walls, relative humidity (RH), CO2, brightness and particulate matters (PM), formaldehyde (HCHO), and total volatile organic compounds (TVOC). The monitoring was carried out in the Summer–Autumn 2020 Campaign, in two different exhibition areas (first floor and basement) and the main warehouse where the exhibits are kept and restored. The analyses aimed both at highlighting the hazard induced by the poor air quality inside the museum that the exhibits face. The results show that this environment is potentially harmful to both exposed items and people. Therefore, the number of days in which the ideal conditions in terms of temperature and RH are met are quite few, the concentration of suspended particles, formaldehyde, and total volatile organic compounds often exceed the limit allowed by the international standards in force. The results represent the basis for the development and implementation of strategies for long-term conservation of exhibits and to ensure a clean environment for employees, restorers, and visitors.

scholarly journals Indoor Air Quality in an Auto Repair Shop: A Case Study

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Andrzej Gajewski ◽  
Kacper Jermacz
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Dew Point ◽  
Absolute Pressure ◽  
Repair Shop

The aim of the paper was to conduct an indoor air quality (IAQ) assessment in an auto repair shop, measuring CO2 and CO concentrations. Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide concentrations were measured for a week. Two Testo 435-4 gauges were located at head height of an adult person (ca. 170 cm above the floor) in a room. The CO2 concentration was measured with an IAQ probe, which measures dew point temperature, psychrometer temperature and absolute pressure in indoor air. The second gauge was connected to a CO probe. Measurements were taken every 5 min and were averaged across an hour. Uncertainties were estimated using square-root combinations of fixed errors and random errors at a 0.05 level of statistical significance. The measurements were conducted from 17 November to 23 November 2018. The following graphs were plotted for carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide: hourly averaged concentration and 8 h averaged concentration. The results were discussed and compared to Polish, foreign and international standards and recommendations. It was found that the auto shop was in danger of negligence according to Polish law as well as nonfulfillment of healthy recommendations. An exhaust extraction system should be installed.

scholarly journals Indoor Air Quality Certification and Consumers’ Willingness: Taiwan’s Experience and Survey

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1320
Author(s):  
Chih-Pei Hu ◽  
Jen-Hsiung Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
High Speed ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Factors Affecting

People spend about 80–90% of their time in indoor environments, and poor indoor air quality (IAQ) can seriously endanger people’s health, work quality, and efficiency. The Taiwan Government began regulating IAQ in 2011 and implemented the self-managed IAQ certification in 2021. Before the Taiwan Government officially implemented the certification, we conducted a questionnaire survey from 26 to 27 September 2020. Moreover, this survey selected Banqiao and Wuri High-Speed Rail Plaza as the survey sites and completed 337 valid questionnaires. According to the hierarchical regression results, this research found the following: firstly, IAQ certification complies with international standards and has continuous monitoring and information disclosure methods, both of which are key factors affecting people’s willingness to consume; secondly, the respondents, who are female, familiar with the regulations, and living in the northern Taiwan area, have more willingness to consume in the certificated places.

scholarly journals Working conditions as one of the areas for implementing the concept of corporate social responsibility

Management ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Cierniak-Emerych ◽  
Kamil Zięba
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Practical Realization ◽  
Corporate Social

Summary Implementation of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) concept is presented, as it applies to the practice of companies. The authors focus on an isolated area of CSR implementation, namely the improvement of working conditions, in the context of selected international standards and norms directly referencing the CSR concept. Circumstances of practical implementations in this area are presented, based on results of pilot empirical studies. The context of the implementations is analysed, as well as their correlations with the task of practical realization of the CSR concept.

The politics of prison air: Breath, smell, and wind in Myanmar prisons

2021 ◽  
pp. 146247452110243
Author(s):  
Tomas Max Martin
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
International Standards ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transitional Dynamics ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
The One

This article explores what air means and entails in penal settings and examines how carcerality attaches itself to air. With inspiration from social science approaches to the study of air, I propose that the lived experience of prison air can be fruitfully analyzed through the notions of breath, smell, and wind. This point is explored through two incidents about prison air drawn from ethnographic fieldwork in Myanmar. Together they illustrate a shift in Myanmar penality from a martial logic of destroying the enemy towards an internationally infused rationality of control and care. The first is a tale of an imprisoned engineer’s subversive effort to improve the air quality in prisons; the second, the design and building of tuberculosis wards in prisons that aim to bring prison air in line with international standards. The analysis of these incidents broadens the analytical sensorium of prison air by drawing attention to, on the one hand, a basic empirical and affective sensing of air, recognising air as a scarce and coveted resource that prison actors’ appropriate to survive. On the other hand, attention is drawn to the possibility of sensing with air, whereby the discourses, technologies, rules, and practices of air can be utilized as entry points for the analysis of prison governance and the transitional dynamics of penality.

scholarly journals An Investigation of Indoor Air Quality in a Recently Refurbished Educational Building

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. McLeod ◽  
M. Mathew ◽  
D. Salman ◽  
C. L. P. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry ◽  
National Guidelines ◽  
Contaminant Exposure ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Educational Buildings

Young people spend extended periods of time in educational buildings, yet relatively little is known about the air quality in such spaces, or the long-term risks which contaminant exposure places on their health and development. Although standards exist in many countries in relation to indoor air quality in educational buildings, they are rarely subject to detailed post-occupancy evaluation. In this study a novel indoor air quality testing methodology is proposed and demonstrated in the context of assessing the post-occupancy performance of a recently refurbished architecture studio building at Loughborough University, United Kingdom. The approach used provides a monitoring process that was designed to evaluate air quality in accordance with United Kingdom national guidelines (Building Bulletin 101) and international (WELL Building) standards. Additional, scenario-based, testing was incorporated to isolate the presence and source of harmful volatile organic compounds, which were measured using diffusive sampling methods involving analysis by thermal desorption - gas chromatography - mass spectrometry techniques. The findings show that whilst the case-study building appears to perform well in respect to existing national and international standards, these guidelines only assess average CO2 concentrations and total volatile organic compound limits. The results indicate that existing standards, designed to protect the health and wellbeing of students, are likely to be masking potentially serious indoor air quality problems. The presence of numerous harmful VOCs found in this study indicates that an urgent revaluation of educational building procurement and air quality monitoring guidelines is needed.

scholarly journals The Ukraine’s labor market regulation in the aspect of the European integration processes

VUZF Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-70
Author(s):  
Nataliia Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Labor Standards ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Subsistence Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Labor Market Regulation

The research purpose is to assess the regulation state of the Ukrainian labor market in the aspect of the European integration processes. As a whole, Ukrainian labor law has been adapted to European labor standards by the beginning of 2020, but the separate provisions in the list require more detail and regulation in order to implement EU standards, in particular in the new Labor Code. The implementation of international standards in this field should include studying the practice of their implementation by individual states, as well as taking into account the social and economic opportunities of Ukraine at the current development stage. The labor market regulation in the context of the European integration should be aimed at increasing the economic activity of the population by stimulating its unshadowing, creating decent working conditions and parity of remuneration in the budgetary and non-budgetary spheres and relatively real subsistence level, conducting analytical and scientific studies of the national economy, forecasting subsequent changes in quality and the division of labor force.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ON OCCUPATION SAFETY AND RISK MANAGEMENT AND WAYS TO IMPROVE THEM IN TRANSPORT ENTERPRISES

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (48) ◽  
pp. 217-222
Author(s):  
Melnichenko O ◽  
◽  
Sorochynska O ◽  
Kulbovskyi I ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Management System ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Labor Protection

The article investigates the ways and means of improving and perfecting the state of labor protection at transport enterprises of Ukraine through the implementation of international standards for risk management and occupational safety. A detailed analysis of international standards for occupational safety, and their main benefits that improve the health and safety of enterprises. The object of research is international standards on occupational safety and risk management. The purpose of the work is to analyze the implementation and use of international standards on occupational safety and risk management at Ukrainian transport enterprises. Research methods - analytical. Quality management of labor protection at enterprises is one of the priority areas of transport enterprises in order to reduce occupational injuries and improve working conditions. In order to effectively manage labor protection in transport enterprises, the authors of the article propose the introduction of international standards in the field of occupational safety and risk management in Ukraine. Examining the chosen topic, it was found that in many works that devoted to the application of international standards on occupational safety was not a generalization of all regulations and standards on labor protection and risk management in the enterprise. The main directions for the implementation of international standards for occupational safety and risk management in transport enterprises of Ukraine are proposed. The results of research can be recommended for implementation in the management system of labor protection at transport enterprises of Ukraine. KEY WORDS: INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY, SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS, RISK ASSESSMENT, IMPROVING OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY CONDITIONS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.

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