Human Safety at EMU Registrar Office

In this research study, the safety issues of a specific work place environment was studied. The registration department at the Eastern Mediterranean University was selected as the field of study. The physical hazards and human factors in the workplace environment were focused and chosen, anthropometric measurements, illumination rates, sound level pressure, and the equipments used by the staff of that department were analyzed and studied. Additionally, the effects of working conditions on the safety and health of the personnels of this department were explored. This study is very important to address the existing problems for the selected work place to establish safety rules recommendations to avoid risks or hazards that the staff of the department is subject to. Twenty employees from registration department were selected and participated in this study, there ages between 19 and 56 years old. Fifteen kinds of anthropometric and physical measurements were used, twelve type of vision and sight were done parallel to the measurements of illumination levels at 32 position of the whole place in the ground floor of EMU registrar office, consequently, the air conduction test was applied to recognize the degree of hearing loss for all employees at EMU registrar office, in addition to the sound level pressure at each place and corner of the registration office. The staff of registration department was informed at the beginning that human safety is the main issue of this research. All personnel should have a safe working environment in which every employed iv person health is well maintained and should not be subject to any hazard. The anthropometric measurements were including: body height, shoulder height, shoulder elbow height, buttock-to-popliteal length, deviation, percentiles, minimum and maximum value of anthropometric dimensions, popliteal height, knee height, forearm length, hip width, elbow sitting height, sitting height, sitting eye height and overhead stretch height. The mean, Standard deviation, percentiles, minimum and maximum value of anthropometric dimensions were calculated. The results of study showed that there are significant differences between male and female body dimensions, and there is a negative effect on vision and hearing. The current layout was found to fail to comply with ergonomy design criteria. A new design of furniture was proposed to improve the level of comfort.