Analysis of Input Parameters for Modeling the Movement of Persons With Disabilities in the Context of Ensuring Personnel Safety
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Involving people with disabilities in the labor market is not only ethical, but also economically justified way to solve the problem of human resource shortage. At the same time, providing workplaces to people with disabilities is associated with increased risks in the context of the safety of employees on the territory of the enterprise both in normal conditions and in the event of an emergency. That is why a special inclusive working environment should be created for representatives of vulnerable groups of employees, which takes into account their special needs. Given the fact that there are many possible combinations of limitations in the life activities of people with disabilities, it is advisable to use agent-oriented modeling to study these features. This approach allows to realistically model the actions of employees with disabilities, taking into account their individual characteristics (speed, reaction, need for assistance, etc.) and interaction with elements of the production environment (obstacles, width of aisles, evacuation routes, etc.). It is advisable to consider the problem of modeling the movement of people with disabilities in two directions: the movement of people with disabilities in the process of performing work tasks in order to analyze the efficiency, convenience and safety of routes in the workplace, identify delays, overloading of passages; and movement for evacuation in the event of an emergency in order to identify critical areas and the risk of blockage. In both cases, it is important to assess the risks, on the basis of which measures to increase the safety level will be developed in the future. The article analyzes the input parameters for agent-oriented modeling of the movement of people with disabilities in the conditions of the production environment during the normal operation of the enterprise and in the event of an emergency in order to develop measures to increase the safety level of personnel with disabilities in production. It is proposed to divide the parameters into two groups: parameters that characterize the features of a person's disability (agent parameters) and environmental parameters that affect the ability of a disabled employee to move around production premises and affect the effectiveness of his activities under the conditions of the normal operation of the enterprise and in the event of an emergency. For the selected parameters, formulas for risk assessment are proposed, which will allow forming an information base for further making management decisions to increase the safety level of employees with disabilities.
Source: Municipal economy of cities
Language: English
Subfield: Ocean Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412920958