Assessment of Safety and Health in the Tea Industry of Barak Valley, Assam: A Fuzzy Logic Approach

• Autorzy: Gupta R. , Dey S. K.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Traditional safety and health system measurement procedures, practiced in various industries produce qualitative results with a degree of uncertainty. This paper presents a fuzzy-logic-based approach to developing a fuzzy model for assessing the safety and health status in the tea industry. For this, the overall safety and health status at a tea estate has been considered as a function of 4 inputs: occupational safety, occupational health, behavioral safety and competency. A set of fuzzy rules based on expert human judgment has been used to correlate different fuzzy inputs and output. Fuzzy set operations are used to calculate the safety and health status of the tea industry. Application of the developed model at a tea estate showed that the safety and health status belongs to the fuzzy class of good with a crisp value of 7.2.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

vagueness; fuzziness; safety; fuzzy set

PL

model rozmyty; system bezpieczeństwa; ochrona zdrowia

• Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
• Czasopismo: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics
• Rocznik: 2013
• Tom: Vol. 19, No. 4
• Strony: 613--621
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 14 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Gupta R.

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam, India

autor

Dey S. K.

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam, India

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