Prezentacja aplikacji mobilnej do oceny narażenia na promieniowanie UV w otoczeniu spawania łukowego
Presentation of a mobile application for the assessment of exposure to UV radiation in the vicinity of arc welding

Summary/Abstract: Ultraviolet radiation (direct and reflected) can pose a health hazard to bystanders working or in the vicinity of arc welding. Radiant exposure of UV radiation (product of the irradiance and exposure time) of the skin or eyes of a person staying in the welding room, even in areas away from the arc or protected by welding screens, may exceed the values of the maximum permissible exposure (MDE). Hence, it is important to design workstations located in the welding room in such a way that other workers are not exposed to excessive UV radiation. The developed mobile application can help with this. It makes it possible to estimate the value of the irradiance and the allowable exposure time of an employee staying in any place in the room, as well as to model the setting of welding shields so as to reduce the occupational risk to a low level. The condition is to have measurement data of the irradiance for a given welding process and to enter them into the calculations in the application. If the user does not have such data, he can purchase a measurement database for various welding processes developed at CIOP-PIB and select the measurement result for a given welding process.The developed application ( without a measurement database) is available free of charge on the CIOP-PIB website could be an important tool for monitoring threats or their sources and communicating about them.

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