scholarly journals EVALUATION OF PHYSICAL BURDENS OF OPERATORS USING ERGONOMICS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 4872-4878
Author(s):  
PETRA MARKOVA ◽  
◽  
VANESSA PRAJOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Comprehensive Assessment ◽  
Upper Limbs ◽  
Work Activity

The article describes the experience from assessing the load of the upper limbs during the horning operation, which is one of the more difficult manual manipulations. Several analytical methods were used to obtain complex analytical data. They were used to identify deficiencies in work activity causing loading of the upper limbs, which in the form of increased effort affect employees' work performance in the monitored work activity. The excessive workload of workers has a significant impact not only on the decline in performance but also on the development of difficulties caused by the cumulative effect of risk factors (work and work environment) and, last but not least, on the increase in accidents and occupational diseases. A comprehensive assessment of work activity based on various methods serves as a basis for ergonomic rationalization of work activity to reconcile the demands of work activity with operators' physical possibilities and abilities.

Pengaruh Pengawasan Melekat dan Kepuasan Kerja Terhadap Etos Kerja Pegawai Pada Badan Perencanaan dan Pembangunan Daerah Kabupaten Bogor Tahun 2007

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Ramlan Ruvendi ◽  
Devy Erisandi
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Research Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
Work Ethics ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Emotional Condition

Work ethics means as an evaluative aspect that owns by individual or group in giving evaluation about a work activity. While close controlling is a kind of steering activity done by supervisor of each employee in improving work performance in order to achieve company’s goal effectively and efficiently. On the other hand, job satisfaction is an emotional condition that reflects someone’s feeling towards his/her job in a positive scope impact and employees attitudes on the job and all aspects they face in their work environment. The research study on the influence of close controlling on job satisfaction and work ethics shows that respondents graded the accomplishment of close controlling at Bappeda Bogor Regency averagely as good. Whilst the job satisfaction and work ethics scores at Bappeda Bogor Regency was interpreted as quite good. From Linear Regression squared analysis conducted on respondent’s data, it can be concluded that there is no or little impact between close controlling and job satisfaction at government local office, agency and district in Bogor Regency.

Behavioral Emergencies and Crises

2010 ◽  
pp. 739-762
Author(s):  
Phillip M. Kleespies ◽  
Justin M. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
High Risk Patients ◽  
Risk Patients ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Behavioral Emergencies ◽  
And Training

This chapter illustrates the mental health clinician’s relationship with behavioral emergencies. The chapter begins by distinguishing the terms behavioral emergency and behavioral crisis, and underlying themes among all behavioral emergencies are identified. Given that most clinicians will face a behavioral emergency in their careers, the importance of enhancing the process of educating and training practitioners for such situations far beyond the minimal training that currently exists is highlighted. The chapter continues by exploring various aspects of evaluating and managing high-risk patients (i.e., those who exhibit violent tendencies toward themselves or others, and those at risk for victimization). It includes a discussion of the benefits and limitations to estimating life-threatening risk factors and specific protective factors. The chapter concludes by discussing the emotional impact that working with high-risk patients has on clinicians, and an emphasis is placed on the importance of creating a supportive work environment.

scholarly journals Prevalence, risk factors and sources of anxiety among Emergency Department healthcare workers in Pakistan during COVID-19 pandemic: A single center survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Haroon ◽  
S. S. Owais ◽  
A. S. Khan ◽  
J. Amin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Nonparametric Tests ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Frontline Workers

Summary COVID-19 has challenged the mental health of healthcare workers confronting it world-wide. Our study identifies the prevalence and risk of anxiety among emergency healthcare workers confronting COVID-19 in Pakistan. We conducted a cross-sectional survey in an Emergency Department using the Generalized Anxiety Scale (GAD-7), and questions about sources of anxiety. Of 107 participants, 61.7% were frontline workers. The prevalence of anxiety was 50.5%. Nonparametric tests determined that nurses, younger and inexperienced staff, developed significant anxiety. Multivariate ordinal regression determined independent risk factors for developing anxiety were younger age (OR 2.11, 95% CI 0.89–4.99) and frontline placement (OR 1.34, 95% CI 0.33–1.66). Significant sources of stress were fear of infecting family (P = 0.003), lack of social support when the health care providers were themselves unwell (P = 0.02) and feelings of inadequate work performance (P = 0.05). Our study finds that HCWs’ anxiety is considerable. Appropriate measures for its alleviation and prevention are required.

scholarly journals Examining the Determinants of Healthcare Workers’ Performance: A Configurational Analysis during COVID-19 Times

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5671
Author(s):  
Benito Yáñez-Araque ◽  
Sagrario Gómez-Cantarino ◽  
Santiago Gutiérrez-Broncano ◽  
Víctor-Raúl López-Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Good Level ◽  
Configurational Analysis ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
The Times

The evaluation of the work performance of health professionals has focused the interest of scientific research in recent decades as a basis for improving the quality of health services. The global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed countries’ health systems to the limit and had previously unknown consequences on the job performance of health professionals. In this context, what are the determinants of performance? There are numerous studies that link job performance with other variables that directly affect it, such as leadership, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and work environment. However, there are no studies that jointly relate all these variables, and even less in the field of health. The main objective of this work is to analyse how these variables are configured together to generate a good level of performance of health professionals during the times of COVID-19. To do this, a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) is carried out, an appropriate method that will allow finding the joint causal effects of key variables in human resources to ensure a good level of job performance in health organizations. The study reveals that leadership and commitment are the two key drivers of performance. The data confirm that the “recipe” to achieve a good level of performance consists of the combination of leadership, commitment, and a good work environment. Additionally, in the case of less satisfied workers, linking leadership and commitment is a sufficient condition.

The Independent and Cumulative Effect of Early Life Risk Factors on Child Growth: A Preliminary Report

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salma M.A. Musaad ◽  
Sharon M. Donovan ◽  
Barbara H. Fiese ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Child Growth

scholarly journals Possible hazards of work environment in metal processing industry in Latvia

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
Inese Mārtiņsone ◽  
Mārīte-Ārija Baķe ◽  
Žanna Martinsone ◽  
Maija Eglīte
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Occupational Exposure ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Occupational Exposure Limits ◽  
Exposure Limits ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Metal Processing ◽  
Metal Processing Industry

Possible hazards of work environment in metal processing industry in Latvia The aim of this study was to investigate risk factors in the work environment of Latvian metal processing industry using the database of the Laboratory of Hygiene and Occupational Diseases of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Environmental Health, Rīga Stradiņš University. During the period between 1996 and 2005, 703 measurements were made in metalworking enterprises. In Latvia, approximately 2.4% of the workforce is involved in the metal processing industry. Physical (noise, lighting, vibration) and chemical (abrasive dust, welding aerosol and contained metals) risk factors were analysed. In the assessed metalworking workplaces, the work environment was estimated to be of poor quality, because occupational exposure limits or recommended values were exceeded in 42% (n = 294) of cases. Noise, manganese and welding aerosols most often exceeded the occupational exposure limits or recommended values, the significance was P < 0.001, P < 0.01 and P < 0.05, respectively.

Increased severity of labor is the most important risk factor of occupational diseases at enterprises in the Arctic

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-34
Author(s):  
S.A. Syurin
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Occupational Exposures ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Permissible Levels ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Total Structure

In Russia, in the structure of harmful production factors that cause the development of occupational pathology, the severity of labor takes the second place. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of increased labor severity on the occurrence, prevalence and structure of occupational diseases in workers at enterprises in the Arctic. The analysis included results of the monitoring study “Working conditions and occupational morbidity” of the population of the Arctic zone of Russia in 2008 – 2018. It was found that in 2008-2018 there was a significant increase in the etiological significance of increased labor severity in the development of occupational pathology: the share of the factor in the total structure of harmful occupational exposures increased from 7.4% to 8.9% (p <0.001), and that of occupational diseases caused by increased labor severity - from 18.6% to 46.9% (p <0.001). Two thirds of occupational diseases caused by the increased severity of labor occur in miners, and diseases of the musculoskeletal system dominate in their structure (80.1%). The risk of developing this group of occupational health disorders in 2018 was higher than in 2008: RR=3,95; CI 3,13-4,99; χ2 =155,9; р<0,001. In contrast to the Russian Federation as a whole, where the increased severity of labor ranks second among the occupational pathology causing factors (24.7%), in the Russian Arctic it came out on top in 2018 (46.9%), exceeding the cumulative effect of all physical factors (44.0%). When carrying out recreational activities and prevention of occupational pathology at enterprises in the Arctic, special attention should be paid to achieving permissible levels of labor severity among workers engaged in mining operations.

scholarly journals Reactions to sexual harassment of the physiotherapist

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Bütow-Dûtoit ◽  
C.A. Eksteen ◽  
M. De Waal
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Common Method ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Emotional Effect

This  paper follows on a previous paper describing a studyconducted on sexual harassment in the physiotherapy work environment inSouth Africa. A survey questionnaire was used to determine the reactions ofphysiotherapists  after  they  experienced  their  worst  incidents  of  sexualharassment. The most common method of handling the sexual harassmentwas to avoid the perpetrator or situation. The most common effects relatedto work performance after the sexual harassment had occurred, were adecrease in concentration, job pleasure and confidence in job performanceand the most common emotional effect experienced was anger.

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