General Provisions
This standard of a disabled person’s workplace with complete hearing loss (hereinafter referred to as the standard) is developed in accordance with subparagraph 9-15) of paragraph 2 of Article 6 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated January 23, 2001 “On Employment”.
2. This standard establishes job requirements for a person with a hearing loss.
Requirements for the workplace of a person with a hearing loss
The workplace of a disabled person with complete hearing loss, the design of the elements of production equipment in the work area comply with ergonomic requirements.
4. Disabled people with complete hearing loss are not allowed to work in conditions of intense noise and local industrial vibration, with moving mechanisms, in the production of substances with toxicity.
5. When equipping a workplace, the individual requirements and restrictions of the disabled person with total hearing loss are taken into account.
6. The main elements of the workplace with complete hearing loss, which are used and taken into account when organizing it, are special equipment and devices designed to compensate for the anthropometric and anatomical and morphological limitations of the disabled person with complete hearing loss.
7. Arrangement of equipment and furniture, illumination of the workplace of a disabled person with complete hearing loss ensures safety and comfort of work.
8. Production facilities with a permanent stay of people are provided with natural and artificial lighting. When performing medium-precision work, combined illumination at the workplace provides for at least 500 lux, low accuracy and rough work - at least 300 lux in accordance with state standards in the field of architecture, urban planning and construction.
9. The light sources have sufficient light output, a full distribution of the light flux with a clear indication of the light border. The surface of the elements of the workplace and surrounding objects do not have bright highlights.
10. The workplace of a disabled person with complete hearing loss is equipped in addition:
equipment that converts sound signals into light signals, into a text running line;
light (visual) indicators that convert speech into text.
11. The requirements for the workplace for the disabled with simultaneous hearing and vision impairment are:
tactile tiflokompleks designed to provide the ability to perform work without visual and auditory control;
tifloorganizer and braille printers, keyboards, which make it possible to connect to the braille display, for working with computers and other office equipment.
12. In an enterprise using disabled people with complete hearing loss, a sign language interpreter office is provided. The specified office is equipped with special technical means of communication for people with hearing impairments: telephones with text messages or telefaxes.
13. At the workplace, flashing light signals are additionally installed to inform of danger and evacuation.