Multicriteria ranking of a job positions by ELECTRA methods in order to improve the analysis and conditions at work in companies in the textile industry

Abstract

Application of appropriate technological methods of production of certain products often causes the negative impact on the employees in the respective processes. The level of the negative impact of the application of certain technological processes on employees varies depending on where the industry is doing, and depending on the level of technological development for a company. In order to identify those negative impacts, it is necessary to perform a proper analysis of manufacturing jobs from the exposure to given influences. This study presents the results of the multi criteria ranking of sixteen different workplaces in textile factories producing and processing fibre in the area of the city of Leskovac in Republic of Serbia, based on six parameters that regularly measure and define the conditions of the working environment. There were analyzed the working environment conditions by measuring the parameters of the working environment: air temperature and comfort zone in winter (microclimate), by determining the presence of harmful chemical sources and hazards that occur while using working equipment, noise, the presence of vibration and the level of light at the workplace. When defining the criteria of a job difficulty it was taken into account the fact that all the parameters of the working environment are not of the equal significance, namely they all do not have the same impact on the health of the employees. The results indicate that this method can be successfully used to solve these problems in other industries, as well as data knowledge can be applied in order to improve working conditions, especially in jobs that are most exposed to the harmful effects of the working environment.