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Productivity, Safety, Comfort, and Operator Health Management

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• Narayana Rao

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• Productivity - Definition
  Productivity - Definitions
• The Corporate World Demands Workplace Health Programs Measure Up
  Measuring ROI for workplace wellness
• Choosing the Right Carbide Tool Improves Job Shop Productivity
  
• GETTING A HANDLE ON PRODUCTIVITY
  
• Productivity Measurement
  Productivity indexes
• Improving Productivity & Efficiency in a Customer Service Call Center
  The key to success is of a customer service call center is to focus on improving its productivity and efficiency.
• Review of THE CONCEPT AND IMPORTANCE OF PRODUCTIVITY
  Review Article
• Productivity Improvement Idea Bank
  Resource for Industrial Engineers
• Review of Total Productivity Management
  
• Total Cost Industrial Engineering - Industrial Engineering of Enterprise Cost
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• Safety
• Electrical Engineering Safety and Electrical Engineering Management Plan
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• Operator - Employee Comfort
• Overburden of the organization - Muri before Muda
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Bibliography

Worker productivity, and occupational health and safety issues in selected industries
Ashraf A. Shikdar, , Naseem M. Sawaqed
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 33, Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Volume 45, Issue 4, December 2003, Pages 563–572

Safety Engineering and Management for Industrial Engineers

Industrial engineers integrate men, materials and machines through work station designs that improve productivity and comfort of workers. In doing such a design, they have to take care of safety engineering and management aspects also. Also when they are doing value engineering of engineering equipment say in equipment producing companies, they have to make sure that all the safety benefits provided in the design being examined are kept intact and any feature change does not reduce the safety of the item. It is better to say that Industrial engineers have the objective of taking care of safety of operators.

Hence industrial engineers have to learn the safety theories and methods developed so far various safety scholars and professionals and enrich them with their insights.

In Maynard's handbook 5th edition there is a chapter on Safety Engineering and Management.

It identified three areas;

Behavioral safety
Safety Engineering
Systems safety

As a part of safety management, it discussed recording accidents, reporting them and analyzing them.


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Safety Engineering and Management - Bibliography

New model of Safety - STAMP - 2002 - Nancy G. Levenson - MIT Professor
Book System Safety Engineering Back to the Future , 2002,
Donwload from Author's site
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/book2.pdf

Home Page of Prof Levenson
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/
There are many pages on safety from sunnyday page that appear in Google search results on safety.

Safety Aspect of Human Effort Engineering - A Manual to Support

The manual developed by the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board can be used to understand the criteria used by certifying/inspection agency regarding the safety of a work task/work place.

Industrial engineers have to design the human task and the work environment by taking care of the safety aspect. A design checklist needs to be there to take care of safety in the human effort engineering.

 

The manual developed by the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board can be used to understand the criteria used by certifying/inspection agency regarding the safety of a work task/work place.

 

Original Publication 2nd Revised Edition:Copyright© 1999
by the OntarioWorkplace Safety and Insurance Board
Core certification training program. Participant’s manual ISBN 0-7778-3688-2

Table of Contents

Foreword
Section 1: Introduction
chapter 1	Occupational Health and Safety in Ontario
2	Health and Safety Law
3	Joint Health and Safety Committees
4	Certified Members
5	Administration and Enforcement of the Act
6	The Body and the Workplace
Section 2: Health
chapter 7	Health Hazards: Recognition, Assessment and Control
8	Chemical Hazards
9	Biological Hazards
10	Physical Hazards
11	Work Design Hazards
12	Stress Hazards
Section 3: Safety
chapter 13	Safety Hazards: Recognition, Assessment and Control
14	Specific Safety Hazards
Section 4: Procedures
chapter 15	Workplace Inspections
16	Accident and Incident Investigations
17	Monitoring Strategies
Section 5: Tools
chapter 18	Health and Safety Research
19	Health and Safety Statistics
20	Understanding the Law
21	Communications Skills
Glossary

Source: http://www.worksafesask.net/files/ont_wsib/certmanual/prelim.html#Table

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Hand Tools, Power Tools and Machine Tools and Manufacturing Processes - Industrial Engineering Issues

Safety

Agricultural Engineering Safety Lesson Plan: Hand Tool Safety

http://nasdonline.org/document/952/d000790/agricultural-engineering-safety-lesson-plan-hand-tool-safety.html

Ergonomics

Handtool Ergonomics - OSHA
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/ergonomics/handtools/introduction.html

Hand tool design and MSDs
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/DEA3250notes/handtool.html

Integration of ergonomics into handtool design
http://www.ciop.pl/790

A Strategy for Power Hand Tool Ergonomic Research in Automotive Industry - Proceedings of NIOSH Workshop - 1994
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pdfs/95-114.pdf

 

 

 

 

Machine Tools

 

Machining - Bibliography

Original knol - http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao/hand-tools-power-tools-and-machine/2utb2lsm2k7a/ 2939

Safety Gloves

Introduction

Operators’ hands at work are extremely vulnerable to a wide range of hazards which include cuts, blows, chemical attack and temperature extremes. Safety gloves protect hands of operators from such hazards.

There is a growing insistence on the use of "job fitted" safety gloves that meet each of the users' specific requirements and manufacturers of safety gloves are able to meet this demand.

(Source for the picture: http://www.alphabetsigns.com/p/SS032611/  [3])

OSHA Standards on Hand Protection - 1910.138 


1910.138(a)
 General requirements. Employers shall select and require employees to use appropriate hand protection when employees' hands are exposed to hazards such as those from skin absorption of harmful substances; severe cuts or lacerations; severe abrasions; punctures; chemical burns; thermal burns; and harmful temperature extremes.  1910.138(b)
Selection. Employers shall base the selection of the appropriate hand protection on an evaluation of the performance characteristics of the hand protection relative to the task(s) to be performed, conditions present, duration of use, and the hazards and potential hazards identified.

 

 

European Standards for Gloves [1]

Implies that the gloves comply with the basic requirements laid down by the EEC directive: Personal Protective Equipment.

Simple Design (Category 1)

For areas of 'minimal risk' where the effects of not wearing a glove are easily reversible or superficial. Such products are self certified.

Intermediate Design (Category 2)

For areas of specific risk i.e. mechanical risks. Such products will have been EC type tested against European test methods and certified by a notified body.

Complex Design (Category 3)

For areas/applications that can seriously or irreversibly harm the health. Such products, in addition to the CE type test, will also have to be either produced under an approved quality system OR be typed tested on an annual basis.

EN 388 - This standard applies to all kinds of protective gloves giving protection from mechanical risks, in respect of physical problems caused by abrasion, blade cut, puncture, or tearing. This standard also covers risk of electrostatic discharge.
EN 374 - This standard specifies the capability of gloves to protect the user against chemicals and/or micro-organisms.
EN 511 - This standard applies to gloves which protect the hands against convective and contact cold.
EN 407 - This standard specifies thermal performance for protective gloves against heat and/or fire.
EN 659 - This standard defines performance requirements for gloves designed to protect fire fighters against heat and flames.
If a glove is to be used for food handling, it is required to carry either the words 'for food use' or this symbol.

	Mechanical Hazards EN 388	Performance Level
a) Abrasion resistance		0-4
b) Blade-cut resistance		0-5
c) Tear resistance		0-4
d) Puncture resistance		0-4
	EN 511 : Cold	Performance Level
a) Convective cold		0-4
b) Contact cold		0-4
c) Water proofness		0-1

	Thermal Hazards EN 407	Performance Level
a) Burning behaviour		0-4
b) Contact heat		0-4
c) Convective heat		0-4
d) Radiant heat		0-4
e) Small splashes of molten metal		0-4
f) Large splashes of molten metal		0-4

Types of Safety Gloves

General purpose

Latex (Natural rubber) gloves

Nitrile glove

Cut protection gloves

http://www2.dupont.com/Personal_Protection/en_US/products/kevlar/cut_products.html

Chemical protection gloves

Material of glove,

PVA

PVC

Butyl Rubber

(some more to be included)

Types of Gloves - Bibliography

http://www.dawginc.com/protective-gloves-ar1

http://www.safetycommunity.com/profiles/blogs/what-are-the-different-types

http://www.ehs.berkeley.edu/hs/63-laboratory-safety/94-glove-selection-and-usage.html

Safety Glove Manufacturers and  Suppliers 

India:

Vinit Gloves Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd. [2] is an 100% export oriented company. They are are manufacturers & exporters of Industrial Leather Gloves from Kolkata, India. the product range includes rigger gloves. driver gloves and welder gloves.

UK:

Greenham Safety Gloves, UK [1] offers a comprehensive range of safety gloves - in excess of 200 different types and styles from which to choose.

Fix8 Ltd [5] have a range of safety gloves and other safety equipment for most, if not all work needs. Fix8 also have a large number of many other construction and industrial supplies to offer as a large UK supplier of industrial products.


USA:
Superior Glove Ltd, USA [4] has been in business since 1910. It has  three manufacturing facilities and sells over 250, 000 pairs of gloves a day.
Safety Signs [3] have a list of safety signs and produce many other types of signs for all sorts of businesses and uses.

References:

1. Greenham Safety Gloves, http://safety-gloves.greenham.com/

2. Vinit Gloves Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd., http://www.vinitgloves.com/

3.  Safety Signs, http://www.alphabetsigns.com/c/SS00/safety-signs.html

4. Superior Glove Ltd, http://www.superiorglove.com/about/index.asp

5. Fix8 Ltd, Safety Gloves http://www.fix8.co.uk/products/PPE+Safety+Equipment/Safety+Gloves

Bibliography

1. Chemical Glove Selection for farm workers, http://www.elcosh.org/docs/d0100/d000155/d000155.html

2. Medical gloves - FAQs, http://www.kchealthcare.com/LrnFAQsQandA.asp?id=804&CategoryName=Medical%20Gloves%20-%20Standards%20and%20Regulations

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Social networking site for safety professionals

http://www.safetycommunity.com/

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