HVLS fans are an ideal way to make warehouses and other industrial facilities more comfortable and reduce the cost of air conditioning, but they usually can’t be installed above pallet racks, which dominate the floor spaces of most warehouses.
HVLS Fans, Air Flow and High-Bay Warehouse Racks
September 17, 2019
by Scott Stone
Tags: temperature comfort, labor shortage
Posted in Safety & Ergonomics|
Comfort and Productivity: It’s Worth It
March 15, 2016
by Scott Stone
I recently attended a product training class on high volume low speed fans, and a statistic was thrown out to the audience that really got me thinking. A NASA study, Compendium of Human Responses to the Aerospace Environment*, showed that worker productivity falls significantly for every degree over an optimum temperature of about 72 degrees. If the temperature hits 85 degrees in the workplace, productivity drops by 18% and accuracy a walloping 40%.
Tags: air quality, hearing loss, noise, lighting quality, ergonomics, Safety & Ergonomics, worker environment, temperature comfort, fire safety
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