The effect of sound on job performance

Abstract

Industrial factories involves in their equipment or machinery can be noisy places and exposing employees to conditions can affect their job performance and health quality. Noise exposure in the workplace might have resulted in long-term workers' health problems; occupational diseases. Designers, managers or people responsible for safety of work should take into account possible danger of sound effect during designing future workplaces. This article reports the results of a questionnaire survey that investigated sound as a physical factor and if its effect is solved in production factories. The sample of 69 respondents included especially production factories having mostly assembly workplaces. The results confirm the hypothesis solving a workplace assessment and sound impact on job performance. Results of the survey were confirmed by case study that was carried out in the processing plastics manufacturing company.