A CASE STUDY OF ERBİL STEEL COMPANY WORKERS IN TERMS OF NON-AUDITORY EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIAL NOISE ON WORKER PRODUCTIVITY

Abstract

Sound is among the significant environmental factors for people’s health, it has an important role in both physical and psychological injuries, and it affects individuals’ performance and productivity. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of exposure to high noise levels on the performance and rate of error in manual activities. For this purpose non-auditory effects of noise were studied among 120 workers from Erbil Steel Company. Statistical analyses of the responses gathered were analyses and reported. Descriptive statistics was carried out using SPSS version 20 and graphs were plotted using Microsoft Excel 2016. The statistical analysis showed that that there is so much noise at Erbil Steel Company and that company workers are at a higher risk of being disturbed by noise at work. The effect of noise on the productivity of workers at Erbil Steel Company was quite high based on responses from the selected workers.