Proposal of development of welding health-hazard index (WHI) for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
In 2009, there were 28,840 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which represented 94.2 % of the total establishments in the manufacturing sector in Malaysia. The SMEs have some setbacks such as poorer working conditions and worker’s safety and health measures are more likely to be neglected. Welding...
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2012
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| Capaian Atas Talian: | http://www.ejournalofscience.org/archive/vol2no2/vol2no2_9.pdf http://www.ejournalofscience.org/archive/vol2no2/vol2no2_9.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4470/1/vol2no2_9(2)_publish.pdf |
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| Ringkasan: | In 2009, there were 28,840 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which represented 94.2 % of the total establishments in the manufacturing sector in Malaysia. The SMEs have some setbacks such as poorer working conditions and worker’s
safety and health measures are more likely to be neglected. Welding fumes assessment in SMEs welding workplace is
essential in order to ensure the minimum level of exposure is maintained as required by the prevailing standards. However,
providing concentration or emission information alone is insufficient and meaningless to the non-expert/ workers. There is
an urgent need to develop an index that can simplify the health and hazard issues of fumes to be comprehended easily by
the workers and company management. Series of subjective measurement to investigate persistent symptom experience by
the welder will be carried out along with spirometry test for verification purposes. Statistical method will be used to get the
correlation between index value and persistent symptom experienced by the SMEs welders. This developed index will
hopefully be able to harness preventive and voluntary risk control by the welder. |
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