Noise in the office work environment is one of the factors that can negatively affect workers' ability to concentrate, cognitive abilities, number of errors made, productivity and comfort. The aim of the study was to determine the effects of acoustic conditions in the mental work environment on psychosocial load. The presented results refer to the subjective assessment (made by a group of 39 people aged 20 to 34) of work performed in various acoustic conditions (variant W1 – no presentation of acoustic stimuli, variant W2 – sounds from office equipment, variant W3 – sounds of office equipment with quiet conversation in Polish, variant W4 – sounds of office equipment with loud conversation in Polish, variant W5 – filtered pink noise). The results indicate a statistically significant greater separation (in the W3 variant) and fatigue (in the W3, W4 and W5 variant) assessed according to the Grandjean Scale. The data obtained using the NASA-TLX questionnaire indicate that the subjects rated highly psychosocial load, strong time pressure and work-related effort. However, these results were not statistically significantly different between the study variants.

DOI: 10.54215/BP.2022.05.11.Kaminska

The working environment conditions include the material and psychosocial factors that a worker is exposed to in the course of his/her work and that may affect his/her health and mental well-being. The latest information on these conditions in the EU-27 countries is provided by the Eurostat survey "Accidents at work and work-related health problems", conducted in 2020 as a module for the Labour Force Survey. In this paper, indicators characterising working environment conditions in EU-27 countries are presented on the basis of the results of this survey.

DOI: 10.54215/BP.2022.05.12.Pawlowska

The article presents the subjective identification of hazards at workstations geodesist(case study) on the example of selected enterprises. They differ primarily in the type of work performed and, therefore, in the experience of the employed people, collected over many years of work in geodesy. For hazard identification served checklist in the form of an anonymous survey. The most important threats occurring in the field and at the office workplace were identified and preventive measures were proposed to minimize the impact of these hazards on the level of work safety. The level of heat load of employees was also examined by simulating the measurements of microclimate parameters in the field and determining the WBGT value and referring them to the normative values.

DOI: 10.54215/BP.2022.05.13.Prus