J.of Soc of Agri Struc, Japan.
Vol.14,No.2 May 1984,22-28
Original:
Language: Japanese

Working Environments in Rice Drying and Processing Plants
-Evaluation of Environments by Operators and Workers-

Tomoyuki SENO

Summary

    To clarify the influence of dust and noise problems at the inside of the rice drying and processing plants, investigations had been put for the workers and operators at the facilities. The results obtained were summarized as follows;
1 ) It had been evaluated as the most severe condition of working environment about "dusty" and "noisy". And, some items including these environmental conditions had become serious problems.
2 ) It was recognized that the sections of work were related to the dusty environment in some degree, and not to noise environment.
3 ) The dust collection equipments were intimately concerned with the evaluation of the dust environment, and it showed that would be possible to evaluate the performance of the equipments.
4 ) From the self-conscious symptoms on the somata of workers and operators, some matters of symptoms were considered that caused by the influence of dust.
5 ) The present situation of environmental counterplans at the facilities were mentioned, and some problams concerned with these countermeasures were exhidited.

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