Abstract
In decontamination of hot cells, the workers should wear suitable protective clothing to protect them from internal exposure and skin contamination. But such protective clothing causes some work strain, especially heat-stress.
As a simple method to evaluate quantitative work strain, we used sweat rates of the wearers.
In the previous paper, sweat rates for workers with two types of protective clothing were reported.
In the present paper, sweat rates under severer working conditions are measured for three types: (1) pressure ventilated blouse; (2) full-face mask & polyethylene coverall; (3) full-face mask & vinyl anorak. The measured values for 65 subjects widely scatter from 0.2 to 2.5l/h for all the protective clothing.
Based on these values, the effects of protective clothing and working conditions (ambient temperature and humidity) on work strain are discussed.
