Importance of Environmental Parameter on Worker’s Working Capacity in Restaurant

Tulika khare

Volume : VI, Issue : VIII, August - 2016

Importance of Environmental Parameter on Worker’s Working Capacity in Restaurant

Tulika Khare

Abstract :

Environment is the events and culture that a person lived in. Person’s beliefs and actions are dependent on their environment. As the same environmental parameters [play an important role in our daily life actions. restaurant worker’s perform wide variety of activities in kitchen daily. Due to continuous performance in the kitchen, workers are exposed to high temperature, humidity, high level of noise and illumination etc. If the exposure toward these environmental parameters exists for a long time then these can adversely affect on the efficiency and the health of the workers. Because of this reason specifically this area had been taken for research purpose to decrease the effect of adverse environmental conditions in the restaurant kitchen. For the present study 120 workers were selected from the four south Indian restaurant i.e. Sri Nidhi Sagar, Raaga the family restaurant, Tamarind and Inchara the family restaurant, Bangalore city, Karnataka State. Descriptive cum experimental research design was used for the present study. Purposive sampling procedure was followed to select the sample and data was gathered by interview method. The workers were mainly literate and aged from 25–40 years. The data further showed that the existing conditions of the restaurant workers were satisfactory i.e. work environment. Besides this occupational risks were noticed among workers which can result in health hazards.