Assessment of Workplace Environment for Sewing Machine Activity

A comfortable and well managed work environment without much clutter allows employees to focus on their goals. This paper describes the results of a study conducted to assess the workplace environment of the female sewing machine operators. A comfortable work environment is very important to perform the task easily and to increase the productivity with reduced number of errors. Hence, the workplace environment of the sewing activity was assessed with environmental parameters which include temperature, light, humidity, and noise. The mean temperature of the workplace was 28.59 which was above the recommended level and the mean illumination level at workplace was found 228.56 which was below the recommended level which was contributing to headache and eye strain for the female sewing machine operators. Workplace assessment for ventilation facility, storage of garments, storage of tools, proximity of clothes and tools, clearance of traffic lanes, hazardous things at workplace, workplace hygiene and workplace management also performed. The results of the study showed that only one fourth sewing machine operators had good storage facility for storage of stitched and unstitched garments.