Noise Analyses in Small-Scale Furniture Enterprises

Abstract

Machine utilization with fast-paced industrialization affects directly occupational safety, occupational health, productivity and quality of work at manufacturing sector. These factors are known that lighting, noise, vibration, air conditions, dust, gas and steam. Physical conditions of the workplace in small-scale enterprises are much worse than big-scale enterprises. Approximately % 98 of furniture industry enterprises in Turkey consists of small-scale enterprises.In this study, noise level of the small-scale furniture enterprises, which operate in Kahramanmaraş, has been investigated. For this purpose, totally 5460 times noise-measurement has been done at 450 number of workplaces. This data has been evaluated as average according to machine varieties in furniture industry. As a result, it has been found that the band saw machine has the highest noise level (95,17±4,50 dB(A)) and the CNC machine has the lowest noise level (88,09 ±0,036 dB(A)), when the machines individually have been evaluated. The noise pressure reaches levels that can threaten occupational’s health. Some psychological and physiological health problems may also occur when working time is increased.

Özet

Gelişen endüstrileşme ile artan makine kullanımı imalat sektöründe; fiziksel çevre şartları, iş güvenliği, işçi sağlığı, üretkenlik ve iş kalitesini direkt olarak etkilemektedir. İş yeri fiziki şartları; aydınlatma, gürültü, titreşim, hava koşulları, toz, gaz ve buhar olarak bilinmektedir. Küçük ölçekli işletmelerde işyerinin fiziksel şartları büyük ölçekli işletmelerden daha kötü olmaktadır. Ülkemizde imalat sanayi içerisinde önemli bir yere sahip olan mobilya endüstrisinin yaklaşık olarak % 98’i küçük ölçekli işletmelerdir.