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Research Priorities

Research priorities of the Department of Occupational Health and Safety Engineering

 

1- Measuring and evaluating sound and vibration in work environments and its compliance with the values ​​of occupational exposure limits

2- Providing appropriate control and intervention plans for sound and vibration and evaluating their efficiency in work environments

3- Assessing the status of employees' hearing threshold and its relationship with the work environment noise

4- Evaluation and evaluation of diseases caused by vibrations in the workplace and its relationship with occupational factors

5- Investigating the situation of thermal stresses in work environments (cold and heat stresses) through experimental and analytical indicators and its compliance with the values ​​of occupational exposure limits

6- Investigating the thermal strains of employees and their relationship with environmental thermal factors and thermal stress indices

7- Checking the thermal comfort status and related indicators in work environments

8- Providing appropriate control and intervention solutions to control the thermal stresses of work environments and their laboratory and field evaluation.

9- Investigating and measuring ionizing rays and their values ​​in environments such as radiology departments of hospitals and its compliance with the values ​​of occupational exposure limits

10- Investigating and measuring non-ionizing rays and their values ​​in occupational environments and its compliance with the values ​​of occupational exposure limits

11- Measuring brightness in work environments and matching it with the values ​​of exposure limits and examining qualitative and quantitative indicators of brightness

12- Providing control solutions and lighting design for work environments and evaluating the measures taken

13- Investigating the relationship between physically harmful factors in the workplace such as sound and vibration, lighting, radiation and heat stress with occupational diseases and employee performance

14- Investigating the relationship between physical harmful factors of work environment such as sound and vibration, lighting, radiation and thermal stresses with social behaviors of employees and quality of life, sleep quality, job stress and burnout

15- Measuring harmful chemical agents in occupational environments such as gases, vapors and particles and examining the condition of these environments from the perspective of exposure to chemical agents and compliance with the values ​​of occupational exposure limits.

16- Evaluating the condition of ventilation systems in work environments and examining the adequacy of these systems in controlling chemical agents in work environments

17- Design and evaluation of air pollution control systems in software, laboratory and field

18- Measuring the biological exposure index of harmful work factors for specific groups of employees and comparing it with the results of measuring these factors in work environments and environmentally.

19- Assessing occupational safety and health risks in different occupations and examining the level of risk in them

20- Examining the appropriateness of different types of risk assessment matrices in application with various methods of risk identification

21- Assessing and evaluating the electrical safety situation in work environments and performing items such as earth measurement and interventions to improve the conditions and evaluate the measures taken

22- Assessing and evaluating the safety status of machines and devices in work environments and performing interventions to improve the conditions and evaluate the measures taken

23- Assessing and evaluating the fire safety situation in work environments and performing interventions to improve the conditions and evaluate the measures taken

24- Assessing the status of safety indicators in work environments and determining the accident rate and evaluating the structure of accidents with existing scientific models

25. Review and evaluation of workstations and their suitability in terms of ergonomic indicators

26- Designing suitable workstations and evaluating their quality and efficiency in providing suitable ergonomic conditions

27- Assessing the status of anthropometric indices in work environments and evaluating the appropriateness of work environment, personal protection tools and devices from the aspect of anthropometric indices

28- Examining the status of freight in jobs in which there is a duty to transport freight and evaluating the conditions based on existing standards and providing control strategies to improve the conditions

29- Assessing the ergonomics of organizations from the aspect of macro-ergonomics and participatory ergonomics and performing appropriate interventions

30- Examining and measuring indicators related to work and sports physiology such as physical capacity to do work and examining the suitability of people with different work capacities with job needs

31- Assessing the status of work environments and employees in terms of cognitive ergonomic indicators such as perception, working memory, mental workload and consciousness

32- Assessing and evaluating the quality and efficiency of personal protective equipment in work environments and their correct use

33-Study of safety culture and safety atmosphere among employees in different work environments

34- Investigating the harmful psychological factors of work environments and their relationship with personality, psychological and social problems

35-Investigating the status of harmful biological factors in work environments and their relationship with indicators of biological exposure of individuals

36-Survey of occupational safety and health status of occupations in which the number of accidents and injuries is higher in Iran, such as driving and construction jobs

37- Assessing the status of working with hand tools in work environments and the suitability of tools with physical and anthropometric characteristics of hands

38- Investigating the occupational health status and problems of shift workers and performing appropriate interventions to eliminate and reduce existing problems

39-Investigating the situation of unsafe practices and conditions in work environments and the role of each in the occurrence of accidents

40- Investigating and evaluating the harmful factors of work environments and their relationship with the productivity of individuals and organizations

41. Design and implementation of integrated management systems in industries

42. Review and evaluate emergency management models and their efficiency in the event of a crisis