Priority approaches of occupational safety and health activities for preventing low back pain among caregivers

Introduction. The nurses who works at Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Emergency Unit often suffering Low Back Pain (LBP) because they have high mobility and unergonomic condition. The purpose of this study were to identify the correlation among age, body mass index and working position of nurses with the low back pain who work in ICU and emergency unit at Sari Mutiara Indonesia general hospital. Methods. The data obtained was analyzed by analytic correlational with cross-sectional approach. The Sampel of this study was recruited with total sampling as 31 nurses. The data was analyzed by spearman correlation with α = 0.05. Result. The result of this study found that there was a signifi cant correlation between age with low back pain (r = 0.466 ; p <0.05). While body mass index and working position there was no signifi cantly correlation with low back pain ( r=0.195; p > 0.05 and r = - 0.172;p >0.05), respectively. Discussion. It can be recommended to occupational safety team to organize training the manner of working according to ergonomic standard, in addition to develope standar operating procedure for nurses in the hospital.Keywords : Risk factors, low back pain, nurse

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2D1-3 Effects of Safety and Health Activities on Care Workers^|^apos; Low Back Pain

The Japanese Journal of Ergonomics ◽

10.5100/jje.50.s290 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 50 (Supplement) ◽

pp. S290-S291

Author(s):

Kazuyuki IWAKIRI ◽

Masaya TAKAHASHI ◽

Midori SOTOYAMA ◽

Xinxin LIU ◽

Shigeki KODA

Keyword(s):

Low Back Pain ◽

Back Pain ◽

Low Back ◽

Safety And Health ◽

Care Workers

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A Subjective and Objective Analysis of Pain in Female Brick Kiln Workers of West Bengal, India

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health ◽

10.3126/ijosh.v2i2.6597 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 38-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Subhanu Sekhar Ray Chaudhuri ◽

Chaitalee Biswas ◽

Krishna Roy

Keyword(s):

Low Back Pain ◽

Back Pain ◽

Grip Strength ◽

Chronic Low Back Pain ◽

Work Experience ◽

Occupational Safety ◽

West Bengal ◽

Low Back ◽

Hand Grip ◽

The Impact

Background: Work related musculoskeletal disorders are a common cause of pain in female workers in brick manufacturing industries involved in sorting and stacking process. Objective: This study aims to categorize the component of neuropathic and/or nociceptive pain with reference to chronic low back pain, its probable causes and its impact on functional variables like hand grip strength, number of man days lost etc. Methods: Female subjects [n=220] in the age range of 28-45 years from different brick fields of Hooghly and Birbhum district of West Bengal ,India with a work experience of more than 10 years participated in this study. Pain categorization was done by PAIN DETECT TOOL .Hand Grip dynamometry done to evaluate grip strength. NIOSH equation was used to standardize RWL. Results: It showed that pain/discomfort was mainly at the low back(90%),neck(72%) and wrist(62%).72% of workers had a pain of >20 in the pain scale of the pain detect tool & 80% of workers were not satisfied with treatments with analgesics/antipyretics which indicate the involvement of neuropathic component of pain in them. The impact of pain was revealed on functional and productivity endpoints like reduced grip strength which also lead to absenteeism, loss of average man days[4.5/month] , injuries[in 33% of workers] and monotony[85% workers] Conclusion: The probable cause of the chronic low back pain may be due to radiculopathy from repetitive lifting of bricks over and above the Recommended Weight Limit [Lifting Index 1.8].DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v2i2.6597 International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health, Vol 2. No 2 (2012) 38-43

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Risk Management for Visitors at Tourism Market: a Study at Beringharjo Tourism Market Yogyakarta)

Jurnal Kesehatan Komunitas ◽

10.25311/keskom.vol6.iss1.489 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 31-36

Author(s):

Faizah Januarti ◽

Helfi Agustin ◽

Muchamad Rifai

Keyword(s):

Low Back Pain ◽

Back Pain ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Hazard Identification ◽

Potential Hazard ◽

Low Back ◽

Security Officers ◽

Hazard Control ◽

Safety And Health ◽

Potential Risks

Abstract Background: Visitors activities and the environment on the market have potential hazards that pose safety and health risk. Some market visitors lack awareness and often ignored potential hazard and risks due to lack of knowledge. This study aims to analyze the potential hazards and determine the hazard control efforts that have been made by the manager. Met This research is a qualitative study, by an observational approach. Research informants selected by purposive, they were head of the staffing subdivision, security officers, traders/seller, and porter at the Beringharjo Market. The instruments used were checklist and interview guidance. Risks were analyzed with the AS / NZS 4360 standard. Results: The results of the study contained 40 types of potential hazards and 48 types of potential risks. The risk of market fires due to electricity installation failures and gas usage has an extreme rating. Low Back Pain (LBP) risk to the porter and injured by a coconut grater machine included in the high-risk rating. Control efforts undertaken were replacing the gas stoves to charcoal for cooking, forbidding smoking and the use of matches, training when lifting weights, disposing of garbage regularly, using seat belts and hooks when working at height. Conclusion: Market Managers have made several control efforts but inadequate and uncomfortable for. Advised to provide seat facilities for visitors to rest, safety talk to educate visitors about fires and training traders to use a fire extinguisher, activating the Occupational Health and Safety efforts organized by the community in the informal sector, making Standard Operational Procedure for each trading activity. Keywords: Hazard identification, risk assessment, hazard control, market, tourism Abstrak Latar belakang : Kegiatan pengunjung dan lingkungan di pasar memiliki potensi bahaya yang menimbulkan risiko keselamatan dan kesehatan. Kebanyakan pengunjung pasar memiliki kesadaran yang rendah dan sering mengabaikan potensi bahaya karena kurangnya pengetahuan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis potensi bahaya dan mendapat gambaran upaya pengendalian bahaya yang telah dilakukan oleh manajer Pasar Beringharjo di Yogyakarta. Metode: Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif, pendekatan observasional. Informan dipilih secara purposive, yaitu kepala bagian Kepegawaian, petugas keamanan, pedagang, dan buruh gendong di Pasar Beringharjo. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah checklist dan panduan wawancara. Risiko dianalisis dengan standar AS/NZS 4360 Hasil: terdapat 40 jenis potensi bahaya dan 48 jenis potensi risiko. Risiko kebakaran pasar akibat kegagalan instalasi listrik dan penggunaan gas memiliki peringkat risiko yang sangat tinggi (Extreme). Risiko Low Back Pain (LBP) pada aktivitas buruh gendong dan terluka oleh mesin pemarut kelapa yang termasuk dalam peringkat risiko tinggi (High). Upaya pengendalian yang telah dilakukan adalah mengganti penggunaan kompor gas dengan arang untuk memasak, melarang merokok dan penggunaan korek kecuali untuk memasak, pelatihan tentang beban kerja dan postur tubuh yang benar saat mengangkat beban, membuang sampah secara teratur, menutup makanan yang dijajakan, menggunakan sabuk pengaman dan tali pengait saat bekerja di ketinggian. Kesimpulan: Pengelola Pasar sudah melakukan beberapa upaya pengendalian, namun belum memadai dan belum memberikan kenyamanan pada pengunjung, disarankan menyediakan fasilitas kursi untuk beristirahat pengunjung, edukasi melalui safety talk kepada pengunjung mengenai kebakaran dan pelatihan penggunaan APAR kepada pedagang, mengaktifkan pos Usaha Kesehatan Kerja untuk mengelola kegiatan K3 pasar, pembuatan SOP bagi setiap aktifitas perdagangan. Kata kunci: Identifikasi bahaya, Penilaian risiko, Pengendalian bahaya, Pasar, Wisata.

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Evaluation of Acceptable Weight of Bag For Students in School: A Fuzzy Logic Approach

International Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering ◽

10.47893/ijmie.2012.1060 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 19-24

Author(s):

Ajay Bangar ◽

Neetu Neetu ◽

Ranjeet Pratap Singh Chauhan ◽

K.C. Arora

Keyword(s):

Fuzzy Logic ◽

Low Back Pain ◽

Back Pain ◽

Secondary Students ◽

Occupational Safety ◽

Additional Stress ◽

Low Back ◽

Fuzzy Logic Approach ◽

S Curve ◽

Health Organization

Overweight schools bags will bring additional stress and fatigue to primary and junior secondary students. The Department of Health recommends that, as a precautionary measure, students should avoid carrying school bags which exceed 15% of their body weight for long periods of time. Around 60 per cent of Indian schoolchildren may suffer back pain by carrying schoolbags. For example, a heavy bag that’s slung over one shoulder can, over the 12 years of schooling, cause chronic back problems that linger into adulthood. Risks include muscle strain, distortion of the natural ‘S’ curve of the spine and rounding of the shoulders. The low back pain as a result of carrying of school bag by students has necessitated the attention given to the determination of limits of weight of school bag carrying by students in the school. It was however noted by that no Occupational Safety and Health organization exist regarding what constitutes the maximum acceptable or safe weight of school bag. After this observation, several researchers have worked on the subject of weight of school bag using three main approaches namely: Physiological, Psychophysical and Biomechanical. Author has applied the Fuzzy logic approaches for setting weight limit (WL) of school bag to be carried by students in school in the analysis the strengths and the weaknesses with the height are taken in to consideration. The approach may probably lead to reduce the problem of low back pain of students caused by heavy weight of school bag.

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1B3-6 The Second Report of Effects of Safety and Health Activities on Care Workers' Low Back Pain

The Japanese Journal of Ergonomics ◽

10.5100/jje.51.s106 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 51 (Supplement) ◽

pp. S106-S107

Author(s):

Kazuyuki IWAKIRI ◽

Masaya TAKAHASHI ◽

Midori SOTOYAMA ◽

Xinxin LIU ◽

Shigeki KODA

Keyword(s):

Low Back Pain ◽

Back Pain ◽

Low Back ◽

Safety And Health ◽

Care Workers

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Quantification and classification of low back pain severity based on Aberdeen low back pain scale

Journal of Applied and Natural Science ◽

10.31018/jans.v7i1.569 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 92-97

Author(s):

Kumkum Pandey ◽

Deepa Vinay

Keyword(s):

Low Back Pain ◽

Back Pain ◽

Material Handling ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Pain Scale ◽

Low Back ◽

Manual Material Handling ◽

Risk Of Injury ◽

Safety And Health ◽

Occupational Low Back Pain

Occupational low back pain (LBP) remains the leading safety and health challenge for many industries. The present study was focused to evaluate the physical demands of the manual material handling task in terms of back pain to assess the potential risk of injury. This investigation measures the prevalence of low back pain of rice mill workers in Rudrapur block, District Udhamsingh Nagar, Uttarakhand. Sixty workers, extensively involved in manual material handling (MMH) task (including, loading, unloading, stacking, filling carrying of rice or paddy sack etc.) were investigated for the presence of low back pain and associated personal and workplace risk factors and symptoms. The severity, intensity; frequency, duration and medication of low back pain was assessed utilizing the ‘Aberdeen Low Back Pain Scale’ developed by Ruta and Garratt (1994) on the basis of scoring in terms of light, moderately light, heavy , very heavy and extremely heavy back pain. The interpretation of scores revealed that 18.33 % respondents were falling under the category of moderately light pain (M), 66.66 % respondents were under heavy back pain (H), only 15 % were under the category of very heavy back pain (V), whereas none of the respondents were under the category of light pain (l) and extremely heavy pain (E). It was concluded that there remains an interest in developing integrated models to predict LBP among Rice mill workers using ergonomic and psychosocial factors as well as control strategies to reduce risk of injury.

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A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ON IDENTIFYING ASSOCIATED FACTORS IN DECIDING WORK- RELATEDNESS OF CHRONIC BACK PAIN AMONG EMPLOYEE

Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine ◽

10.37268/mjphm/vol.19/no.1/art.8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Jenn Zhueng Tam ◽

Zuraida Mohamed ◽

Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh ◽

Noor Hassim Ismail

Keyword(s):

Low Back Pain ◽

Back Pain ◽

Occupational Safety ◽

Chronic Back Pain ◽

Smoking Status ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Daily Basis ◽

Low Back ◽

Manual Lifting ◽

The Developed Countries

Chronic low back pain is a common and preventable complain among workers. Large amount of financial and benefit cost has been spent by the developed countries to prevent, treat and rehabilitate a large number of workers that are exposed to hazards attributing to low back pain. Efforts on primary prevention of low back pain has been challenging due to difficulties in affirming work- relatedness of chronic back pain among workers. As such, efforts have to be focused on the existing literatures to propose acceptable variables to define work- relatedness specific to occupational low back pain. Evidences suggest twisting, frequent manual lifting of objects, duration of daily exposure, coping mechanism towards the pain, body mass index (BMI), smoking status and physical activity are associated with occupational back pain. However, further research efforts are needed to establish stronger evidence and improve the occupational safety and health of our workers that are exposed to all these hazards throughout the day on a daily basis.

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