Микроклимат производственных помещений — это prevailing or created climate within each individual cabinet, workshop, warehouse, etc. This physical factor consists of several parameters: air temperature (most significant), air humidity, temperature of surrounding surfaces (intensity of thermal radiation) and speed of movement of the air flow.
The optimal parameters of the microclimate inIndoors, this combination of temperature, speed, and air humidity is called, at which workers feel thermal comfort without tension of the thermoregulation mechanisms, taking into account the energy costs of doing the work. For example, in the summer in the office, where the energy costs of workers are low, the value of the optimum temperature at the workplace should be from 23 to 25 degrees. In the same period of the year in the welding shops where the energy costs of workers are substantial, the value of the optimum temperature should be from 19 to 21 degrees.
To determine the normalized microclimate values in industrial premises, it is necessary to take into account the period of the year and the category of work.
Microclimate of industrial premises is subject toperiodic checks. To do this, measure the parameters that make up this physical factor, according to the approved method. Measuring instruments (devices that measure) must be verified. If the parameters constituting the microclimate do not correspond to the permissible, measures should be taken to bring the parameters to the level of permissible, and ideally to the optimum.
Thermal occupational injuries and microclimateproduction premises may be associated. If, by virtue of his official duties, an employee is forced to stay at temperatures other than permissible for a long time, his time in such conditions should be limited. Safety at work provides for the protection of workers from overheating or overcooling at medium temperature, which must be within the framework of the permissible for the category of work under consideration.
