TY - GEN
T1 - The design of personal protective garments for workplace
T2 - AHFE 2017 International Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, 2017
AU - Tufail, Muhammad
AU - Lee, Haebin
AU - Kim, Myungjin
AU - Kim, Kwan Myung
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is supported by the Ministry of Education and National Research Foundation of the Republic of Korea (NRF-2015S1A5A8010614). The work is also supported by the Promotion of Special Design-Technology Convergence Graduate School of Korea Institute of Design Promotion with a grant from the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy of the Republic of Korea (N0001436).
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Personal protective garments are commonly used to protect workers from direct and secondary radiation in radiological workplaces. Traditionally, these garments are manufactured using heavy shielding chemical materials, such as lead or lead composite mixed with binders and additives to make lead loaded vinyl sheets. The materials used in such garments are toxic, subject to rapid decline, and cause lead poisoning and heat gain that create moisture inside the garments. These garments are heavy in weight, causing a higher risk of musculoskeletal injuries and workers’ fatigue and discomfort, which results in low productivity due to ergonomic detriment. We designed an ergonomic personal protective garment with a lightweight flexible structure and optimal shielding performance after a thorough examination of the existing safety in the workplace, worker’s tasks and exposure to radiation, and weight and type of the materials used in the existing garments. Our study suggests that a lightweight and flexible design factor that could improve workers physical activities and body movement by considering ergonomic design could increase productivity in radiological workplaces.
AB - Personal protective garments are commonly used to protect workers from direct and secondary radiation in radiological workplaces. Traditionally, these garments are manufactured using heavy shielding chemical materials, such as lead or lead composite mixed with binders and additives to make lead loaded vinyl sheets. The materials used in such garments are toxic, subject to rapid decline, and cause lead poisoning and heat gain that create moisture inside the garments. These garments are heavy in weight, causing a higher risk of musculoskeletal injuries and workers’ fatigue and discomfort, which results in low productivity due to ergonomic detriment. We designed an ergonomic personal protective garment with a lightweight flexible structure and optimal shielding performance after a thorough examination of the existing safety in the workplace, worker’s tasks and exposure to radiation, and weight and type of the materials used in the existing garments. Our study suggests that a lightweight and flexible design factor that could improve workers physical activities and body movement by considering ergonomic design could increase productivity in radiological workplaces.
KW - Ergonomic design
KW - Personal protective garment
KW - Radiological workplace
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021719760&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-60495-4_44
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-60495-4_44
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85021719760
SN - 9783319604947
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 416
EP - 425
BT - Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, 2017
A2 - Chung, WonJoon
A2 - Shin, Cliff Sungsoo
PB - Springer-Verlag
Y2 - 17 June 2017 through 21 June 2017
ER -