Industries involving heating systems that generate high air temperatures, high humidity and radiant heat, or in systems where there is physical contact with hot objects expose workers to hot indoor environments that can, sometimes, be dangerous. These problems occur in various industries including iron and steel foundries, nonferrous foundries and glass industries. Others include brick-firing and ceramic plants, electrical utilities, bakeries, food canneries, mining sites, and steam tunnels. Workers are also exposed to high air temperatures in rubber industries, commercial kitchens, chemical plants, and laundries among many other industries.
As a manager, it is your job to ensure workers are in an environment that is comfortable and not too humid or hot to work in. This is why it is important to engage an industrial heating services engineer or
warm air heating installation experts because they will recommend and install systems to deal with excess heat.
Here are tips on how to go about it:
1. Understand that heat is hazardous for workers: Natural body cooling mechanism work because the body is eliminating heat from a hotter body (human body) to a cooler body (the environment). That process is interrupted when the environment is of equal hotness degree (or temperature) with or higher in hotness degree than the human body. Sweating is hampered, meaning the body cannot eliminate heat and so the human body heat rises and heart rate rises. It becomes hard for the person to work.
2. Prevent and deal with the situation: prevention is the best cure. Engineering controls, such as air conditioning and ventilation will deal with the heat and heating problems in these industries. These systems need to be fused in the design of the workplaces and factories and installed with the help of industrial heating services engineer or
warm air heating installation experts in Surrey. These experts are also called in to maintain or check working conditions of the systems if something wrong happens or if they cannot serve their purposes.
Experts who know these systems well should be able to recommend efficient systems that are durable and cheaper.