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The work environment whether it is a business office or industrial environment, needs to be safe, healthy, hygienic, and comfortable. A company is an organization made up of people that invest in the profit objective of selling goods or services. This paper aims to publish the data collected from the environmental thermal comfort and the method of measurements taken in the metalworking industry. The qualitative and quantitative, with structured interviews and comfort variables measurements were taken. The data collected are particularly valuable due to the experimental conditions under which they raised its practical application is limited to each work environment. The survey carried out on the shop floor allowed randomly to collect measurements on places generating heats or poor ventilation systems. The conclusion that a comfortable thermally controlled industry environment can improve working conditions and ensure the highest level of health protection and in industries’ environmental quality.
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Pinto, N., Xavier, A., Santos, G., Kovaleski, J., Gaia, S., Hatakeyama, K. (2021). Measuring Environmental Variables and Proposal of Determination of Thermal Comfort in Industrial Plant. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R., Groff, F. (eds) Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications IV. IHIET-AI 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1378. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74009-2_55
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