Lean Production and Its Impact on Worker Health

2022 ◽  
pp. 242-251
Author(s):  
Murray Gibson ◽  
Beata Mrugalska

Lean is currently applied successfully in many industrial sectors. However, its value and impact on human health is not fully understood. To gain a better understanding, this chapter explores how ergonomics force and fatigue evaluation methods can be applied in a manner to enhance lean initiatives. These methods incorporate ergonomic-related variables of force type, force duration, force frequency, and degree of awkward posture, and incorporate the recommended cumulative rest allowance (RCRA) model as a practical fatigue-based metric. These methods and their application are discussed.

Author(s):  
Murray Gibson ◽  
Beata Mrugalska

Lean is currently applied successfully in many industrial sectors. However, its value and impact on human health is not fully understood. To gain a better understanding, this chapter explores how ergonomics force and fatigue evaluation methods can be applied in a manner to enhance lean initiatives. These methods incorporate ergonomic-related variables of force type, force duration, force frequency, and degree of awkward posture, and incorporate the recommended cumulative rest allowance (RCRA) model as a practical fatigue-based metric. These methods and their application are discussed.


Author(s):  
Paul A. Landsbergis ◽  
Paul S. Adler ◽  
Steve Babson ◽  
Jeffrey Johnson ◽  
Michelle Kaminski ◽  
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Author(s):  
Makoto Higuchi

Many studies on the environmental fatigue of structural materials in LWR (Light Water Reactor) water have been carried out over the past 30 years. Early environmental fatigue tests were mainly carried out in Japan in the 1980s, and these results were reported to the ASME in 1988. After that, O. Chopra and W. Shack of ANL (Argonne National Laboratory) also carried out similar fatigue tests and reported that their data corresponded well to Japanese data. In the US, the PVRC (Pressure Vessel Research Council) started the CLEE Committee (Cyclic Life and Environmental Effect, Chair: Sumio Yukawa) for developing the environmental fatigue evaluation method in LWR water under the request from the ASME in 1991. This committee continued for 13 years and closed in 2004 after publishing the final report as WRC (Welding Research Council) Bulletin 487. After 1990 in Japan, the EFD Project (1993–1995) and the EFT Project (1994–2006) were carried out under the collaboration of electric utilities, plant vendors and government. A large number of environmental fatigue data have been generated in these projects, and these were offered to the US through the CLEE Committee. Based on Japanese and US fatigue data, environmental fatigue evaluation methods have been established in both countries that assess the effects of some parameters on fatigue life reduction in LWR water environments. This paper introduces the history of studies on the environmental fatigue in LWR water and the contributions of Sumio Yukawa to these activities. After that, the comparison of three major methods of environmental fatigue evaluation such as PVRC, JSME and MJREG/CR-6909 are reported.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dumitru Mihăilă ◽  
Petruț Ionel Bistricean ◽  
Alin Prisacariu ◽  
Mihaela Țiculeanu – Ciurlică

<p>In cities the chemical parameters of the urban atmosphere are being influenced, mainly negatively, by the daily human activities. The urban agglomeration of Suceava (from the NE of Romania) amounted to 116404 inhabitants as per the census from 2011. Their quality of life depends directly on the quality of the air inhaled, and this is being affected by the variable emissions of the transport and industrial sectors and by the household activities. The Municipality of Suceava is an important commercial center and, at the same time, a tourist city.</p><p>The general objective of the study consists in the evaluation of the air quality of Suceava Municipality, on the basis of the hourly data from the stations SV1 (urban background) and SV2 (industrial background) from the interval January 2009 - October 2019, on the basis of five chemical indicators: NO2, SO2, CO, O3 and PM10. The main objectives are: i) the identification of the fluctuations in time of the daily or hourly average concentrations of these emissions with the outlining of their daily or annual regime; ii) the comparison of the air quality in the neighbourhoods with residential function from the central and central-southern areas (Zamca, Marasesti, George Enescu, Areni, Obcini and so on) with the one from the industrial platform vicinity, and iii) the releasing of some accurate evaluations based on data from monitoring, which to classify in different levels of quality the air breathed in by humans.</p><p>Results. In Suceava the concentrations of NO2 (with hourly indices of quality evaluated as being excellent in 96,51% of cases at SV1 and 93,51% of cases at SV2), SO2 (with hourly indices of quality evaluated as being excellent in 99,79% of cases at SV1 and 99,03% of cases at SV2) and CO (with indices of excellent quality of the air in 99,78% of the hours of observations at SV1 and 97,32% at SV2) are not capable to raise real problems from the perspective of their impact on human health. In the case of O3, in 1,67% of the hours of observations from SV1 the concentration of this gas exceeded the target value for the protection of human health (120 μg/mc). The situation is not alarming due to the reduce percentage held by these situations and to the limitation of the areal to a single monitoring point. In the case of PM10 the concentration does not raise problems at SV1 station where the proportion of time with exceedings of the daily limit value for human health protection is on average 1,3 days/year<sup>-1</sup>, but at SV2 the daily limit values are being exceeded in 35 day/year<sup>1</sup>. The interval October - March, with thermal inversions, persistent fog and low stratiform clouds, is the critical one related to this pollutant.</p><p>Conclusions. On the background of the industrial decline that followed after 1989, the quality of the air from the atmosphere of Suceava has increased. The problem of the particles in the areal of the industrial platform and Burdujeni neighbourhood stays a current one. </p>


UNICIÊNCIAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56
Author(s):  
Bruno Pereira do Nascimento ◽  
Renata Cristina Giroto Ferreira da Silva ◽  
Alexsander Pippus Ferreira ◽  
Evanilda Custodio da Silva ◽  
Jardes Arquimedes de Figueiredo Junior ◽  
...  

É grande a problemática envolta na utilização dos agrotóxicos no Brasil e no mundo, os danos cumulativos a saúde humana é remontada em diversas pesquisas que elucidam diversas alterações sistemáticas que acometem as populações expostas. Sendo necessária a discussão e implementação de políticas públicas efetivas na saúde do trabalhador, a fim de prevenir o risco do desenvolvimento de comorbidades associadas aos agrotóxicos.  Objetivo: Analisar a exposição materna aos agrotóxicos e a ocorrência de prematuridade no estado de Mato Grosso no período de 2008 a 2018. Metodologia: Trata-se de um estudo quantitativo, ecológico, abrangendo o período de 2011 a 2017, conduzido em municípios do Estado de Mato Grosso. Os óbitos fetais e nascidos vivos com malformação foram obtidos através do Sistema de Informações de Nascidos Vivos (SINASC). E as estatísticas da população daquele determinado município foram filtrados pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). Palavras-chave: agrotóxicos; prematuridade; cuidado pré-natal. Abstract The problem involved in the use of pesticides in Brazil and in the world is great, the cumulative damage to human health is traced in several studies that elucidate several systematic changes that affect the exposed populations. It is necessary to discuss and implement effective public policies on worker health, in order to prevent the risk of developing comorbidities associated with pesticides. Objective: To analyze maternal exposure to pesticides and the occurrence of prematurity in the state of Mato Grosso from 2008 to 2018. Methodology: This is a quantitative, ecological study, covering the period from 2011 to 2017, conducted in municipalities in the State from Mato Grosso. Fetal deaths and live births with malformation were obtained through the Live Birth Information System (SINASC). And the population statistics for that particular municipality were filtered by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).   Keywords: Pesticides; Prematurity; Prenatal Care.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (9) ◽  
pp. 915-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Foster ◽  
Simon G Hodder ◽  
James Goodwin ◽  
George Havenith

Abstract Treatment and management of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, which causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19), requires increased adoption of personal protective equipment (PPE) to be worn by workers in healthcare and industry. In warm occupational settings, the added burden of PPE threatens worker health and productivity, a major lesson learned during the West-African Ebola outbreak which ultimately constrained disease control. In this paper, we comment on the link between COVID-19 PPE and occupational heat strain, cooling solutions available to mitigate occupational heat stress, and practical considerations surrounding their effectiveness and feasibility. While the choice of cooling solution depends on the context of the work and what is practical, mitigating occupational heat stress benefits workers in the healthcare and industrial sectors during the COVID-19 disease outbreak.


2002 ◽  
Vol 2002 (0) ◽  
pp. 415-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoto KASAHARA ◽  
Hideki KAMIDE ◽  
Minoru IGARASHI ◽  
Hiromi HOSOGAI ◽  
Hideki TAKASHO

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