Noise Level in Textile Industries: Case Study Al-Hillah Textile Factory-Company for Textile Industries, Al-Hillah-Babylon-Iraq

Ali Chabuk,Khalid Hashim,Majid M.A Kadhim,Jan Laue,Nadhir Al-Ansari,Zahraa Ali Hammood,Salwan Ali Abed

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/790/1/012048

Abstract

In this study, Al-Hillah Textile Factory, in Al-Hillah city-Iraq follows to State Company for Textile Industries was selected to study the intensity of noise in 2014. Measurements of the noise level were carried out in different workshops for each of the production stages including the spinning machinery workshop (parts 1 and 2), the rotating machinery room, the preparations room, and the textile machinery room (Roti model), weaving machines: Techmash model room Russian-made model room, Sheets’ machinery room, and operator machines room; using two noise meters (model 2237 Fulfici). Fifty samples were collected in each part of these rooms to give realistic results for the noise level. After recording the noise level data, the highest and lowest values and the average of noise intensity readings were calculated in each of the rooms and compared with the global standards permitted by the EPA for industrial facilities. The results of this study showed that the general rate of noise intensity in all rooms exceeded the permissible limits, which impose a noise level of 65-70dB for such industrial establishments according to EPA recommendations in 2008.

Highlights

There is no doubt that the circumstances surrounding the work greatly affect the performance of workers, quantity, and speed of production
The results of this study showed that the general rate of noise intensity in all rooms exceeded the permissible limits, which impose a noise level of 65-70dB for such industrial establishments according to EPA recommendations in 2008
For Eleven rooms in the State Textile Company in Hillah city, forty readings were taken in each room throughout the company and during the entire official working hours, i.e., between 7 AM and 1 PM. shows that the highest reading was recorded in the Roti textile machines (118dB), which exceeded the EPA limits (85dB) and exceeded the time of exposure of the worker to noise according to OSHA (87dB) considering that working time is 6 hours (Figure 3)

Summary

Introduction

There is no doubt that the circumstances surrounding the work greatly affect the performance of workers, quantity, and speed of production. Many Industrial psychologists studied deeply these three categories of work conditions that led to providing the available information about the work-facilitating environment that the workplace needing to increase productivity and provide worker psychological comfort. It becomes clear that noise has harmful effects on the psychological stability of workers in the textile industries, as well as an effect on the physiological aspect, especially hearing loss For this reason, the subject of the study was chosen because of the importance of this topic in knowing the performance of industrial processes in the chosen facility and the effect of noise on the psychological and physiological conditions of the employees

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