Students from the Public Health Study Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, Muhammadiyah University, Surakarta, on Wednesday, October 13 2023, visited the Central Java Work Safety Center. The visit was carried out in the context of student training in the Environmental Health Technology course. The training was accompanied by Mrs. Rezania Asyfiradayati, SKM., MPH. and Mrs. Windi Wulandari, SKM., MPH. as course supervisor. This training teaches students about measuring environmental quality standards, including lighting, noise and work climate. Apart from that, students are taught the basics of corporate hygiene and occupational health. Corporate hygiene is the recognition, assessment/evaluation, supervision/control of factors or pressures in the environment that arise in or from the workplace, while Occupational Health is the development of the principles and practices of medicine. work (Occupational medicine) to combine preventive or constructive activities from all members of the occupational health team, Hyperkes and Occupational Health are the same thing.
Environmental measurements taught to students refer to standards including:
1. SNI 7061-2019 – Work Climate. This standard specifies a method for measuring and evaluating the working climate which includes a hot working climate with wet and ball temperature index (ISBB) parameters and a cold working climate with equivalent temperature parameters, carried out using a heat stress monitor.
2. SNI 7231-2009 – Environmental Noise. This standard is a method for measuring noise intensity in the workplace using a Sound Level Meter (SLM), containing procedures for implementing noise intensity measurements carried out in the workplace.
3. SNI-7062-2019 Lighting. This standard specifies a method for measuring lighting intensity in the workplace using a lux meter.
Not only are they taught about the application of these measurements, students are also taught how to calculate and compare with applicable standards. After being taught about these measurements, it is hoped that students will be able to apply them in their field of work.
