The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. http://http://dspace.unitus.it:80 2013-05-25T16:37:02Z 2013-05-25T16:37:02Z Monarca, Danilo Biondi, Paolo Cecchini, Massimo Santi, Massimo Guerrieri, Mirko Colantoni, Andrea Colopardi, Francesco http://hdl.handle.net/2067/1811 2011-06-27T20:26:25Z 2007-12-31T23:00:00Z

Title: Transmission of vibrations from portable agricultural machinery to the hand-arm system (HAV): risk evaluation and definition of exposure time for daily action and exposure limits. Authors: Monarca, Danilo; Biondi, Paolo; Cecchini, Massimo; Santi, Massimo; Guerrieri, Mirko; Colantoni, Andrea; Colopardi, Francesco Abstract: Every day agro-forestry workers are exposed to health and safety risks, due to work environment and the machineries they use. Some of these risks, vibrations for example, are usually underestimated by workers as well, because vibrations do not represent an immediate risk for the health. The vibrations can cause some professional diseases whose symptoms can appear after many years too. This is not a good reason to ignore the problem; in fact the consequences of a long exposure time can be very serious. A deeper knowledge of diseases caused by vibrations, laws, the best precautions and safety systems can represent a start to limit the phenomenon. The research about agro-forestry machineries can represent a stimulus to use ergonomic instruments in order to guarantee the health and the safety of the workers. The present research aims to highlight the importance of the exposure to vibrations in agro-forestry sector and its consequences on human health, above all the risks for the hand-arm system during the working day. Every machine has been directly analyzed to establish the level of vibrations produced according to the laws in force and the most recent ISO norms. With the collected data it was possible to establish the maximum exposure times for every instrument in order to respect the European Directive 2002/44/CE of 25 June 2002 on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (vibrations).

2007-12-31T23:00:00Z Monarca, Danilo Cecchini, Massimo Guerrieri, Mirko Colantoni, Andrea Colopardi, Francesco http://hdl.handle.net/2067/1812 2011-07-18T13:42:47Z 2006-12-31T23:00:00Z

Title: Exposure to hand-arm and whole-body vibrations for workers employed to blowers Authors: Monarca, Danilo; Cecchini, Massimo; Guerrieri, Mirko; Colantoni, Andrea; Colopardi, Francesco Abstract: Six portable blowers were chosen in order to evaluate the potential risks to operators through their exposure to hand-arm and whole body vibrations. These evaluations are based on internationally standars, with particular reference to Italian legislation of August 19th, 2005, nr 187 (directive 2002/44/EC), which lays down specific measures regarding exposure to mechanical vibration and its affect on health and measures regarding exposure to mechanical vibration and its affect on health and safety. All the levels of accelerations normalized to 8 hours have been measured and referred to a 7 hours daily period of exposure, and all results checked against the exposure limit values.

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