PIMEX

The PIMEX method ( PIcture Mixed Exposure) denotes the synchronous capture and visual representation of workloads and medical records of employees in real time. A workflow is filmed with a video camera, be simultaneously via direct-reading instruments occurring loads ( such as dust, solvents, etc. ) but also medical data ( heart rate, heart rate variability) collected and stored synchronously with the video. The data are accessible at any time and are available for further analysis. With the ability to set exposure gradients directly with the current activities of the employees, in relation to correlations between the workflow, the predominant strains but can also detect the specific strain and derived measures against adverse situations.

Tried are now generally measurements of hazardous substances (dusts, solvents to coolant mist), ergonomic factors for both workloads ( environmental factors - temperature, humidity and air velocity ) and stress responses (heart rate ) and physical impacts such as noise and heat radiation. For many load ranges are special direct-reading measuring systems and sensors that need to be selected according to measuring material.

Development

The PIMEX method was developed in the 1980s by Grunnar roses and Ing -Marie Andersson at Arbetslivsinstitut in Sweden. Since the system was not subject to licensing, it has been used by scientists in some European countries and developed. It is currently used and further developed, inter alia, in the UK by the Health and Safety Laboratory, Harpur Hill, as well as in Finland by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. In Sweden, Finland, the UK and the Netherlands, the system was only few, used especially in science. In the early 1990s came the idea and the knowledge of the PIMEX with the young engineer Hubert Novak Austria. His employer, the Austrian labor Accident Insurance Fund ( AUVA ), it was from the job analysis.

With the progressive development of information technology PIMEX could be ported to Notebook computer. The development in measurement technology also led to smaller sensors that could be used without disabilities of the subjects.

Introduction to Germany

Mid-1990s, the Austrian PIMEX system was introduced in Germany. A large portion of the distribution, both national and international, had a department of the Hamburg Ministry of Science and Research. The Cooperation Centre Hamburg organizes international conferences to exchange experiences between the PIMEX users. She led in 2004 a project funded by the Occupational Safety and Health Agency in Bilbao Project ( PIMEXPRO ) through the dissemination of the method in Germany and Greece. With presentations and publications, the German labor protection devices were made aware of the system. Today, both the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( BAUA ) as well as individual professional associations (BG BAU, BG ETEM, BGHM ) and the IFA have such a system.

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  • PIMEX in Dalarna University
  • PIMEX information of the Cooperation Centre Hamburg
  • ECTS
  • Occupational Safety and Health
  • Abbreviation
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