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Thermal Comfort Assessment: A Study Towards Workers’ Satisfaction in Metal Industry

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Human Systems Engineering and Design (IHSED 2018)

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The acceptable thermal comfort in work environment is mandatory for workers undergoing heavy load of work. This paper focuses on two unique research groups working on research related to thermal comfort. The first research group focuses on research related to environmental chambers held within controlled environment, while the other group is dedicated to studying the research field in which the researcher does not interfere with environmental variables, personal and subjective, and does not determine the activities carried on or clothing. This paper is based on research focusing on the ISO standard for working under specific national legislation on the subject of thermal comfort. In industries, work which is associated with heat or thermal energy presents added physical risks for various professional activities. This paper focuses on environment involves parameters affecting the gains or losses of heat of the body.

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  1. Ergonmics Consulting Office, Vitoria, ES, Brazil

    Norma de Melo Pinto

  2. Enterprise Consulting Office, Salvador, BA, Brazil

    Kazuo Hatakeyama

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  1. Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Tareq Ahram

  2. University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Waldemar Karwowski

  3. Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

    Redha Taiar

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de Melo Pinto, N., Hatakeyama, K. (2019). Thermal Comfort Assessment: A Study Towards Workers’ Satisfaction in Metal Industry. In: Ahram, T., Karwowski, W., Taiar, R. (eds) Human Systems Engineering and Design. IHSED 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 876. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02053-8_15

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