scholarly journals DEVICE FOR MONITORING THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL WORK CONDITIONS ON HUMAN FACTOR

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 4841-4846
Author(s):  
DANIELA ONOFREJOVA ◽  
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JAROSLAVA KADAROVA ◽  
JAROSLAVA JANEKOVA ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Factor ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
External Disturbances ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Work ◽  
The Eu

Industry 5.0 follows the idea of continuous digitization and transfer to digital factory. Industries must adopt the green and digital transitions to continue to be competitive. Besides the preservation of resources, climate change, the social stability is in the focus. Industries strive to become more resilient against external disturbances, such as Covid-19 crisis. Work environment considerably affects the productivity, health and safety of workers. Monitoring of the working environment with reliable miniaturized technology can guarantee suitable working conditions. In the line with the EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2014-2020, one of EU-OSHA's priorities is to fortify the prevention of work-related diseases.

The effects of using an ergonomic aid on the physical workload and body discomfort reported by pre-adolescent farmers in West Bengal, India

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Banibrata Das ◽  
Somnath Gangopadhyay ◽  
Tirthankar Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Handgrip Strength ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Body Part ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Physical Workload ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Work Related

BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal disorders are one of the major health hazards among farmers. Pre-adolescents are mainly associated with agricultural work due to poor socioeconomic conditions. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to implement a new ergonomics aid for the betterment of job procedures and improvement of productivity, health, and safety of the preadolescent farmers. METHODS: 100 male and 100 female preadolescent farmers were randomly selected from the villages of Tarakeswar, West Bengal, India, to evaluate and reduce work-related musculoskeletal disorders, physiological stress. Modified Nordic questionnaires, Body Part Discomfort (BPD) scale, and handgrip strength were assessed before and after using the ergonomics aid. RESULTS: The results of the study show that there was a significant change (decrease) in discomfort in the lower back, wrists, shoulder, and hands among preadolescent farmers when using the newly designed ergonomic aid. Handgrip strength increased and physiological stress was decreased among preadolescent farmers in post-intervention than pre-intervention in just after work conditions. Productivity has been increased in farming by decreasing absenteeism from work with the use of ergonomic aid. CONCLUSION: This study concludes that productivity has been increased in farming by decreasing absenteeism from work as well as by using the ergonomic aid the discomfort feeling has been decreased markedly.

scholarly journals Occupational medicine - then and now: Where we could go from here

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 139-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Belkic ◽  
Olesja Nedic
Keyword(s):  
Work Stress ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Major Public Health Problem ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Starting Point

Occupational medicine has a long-standing history in the region of the former Yugoslavia with seminal contributions to the theory and practice of this discipline. This tradition should be expanded to incorporate psychosocial stressors. We review the sociological work stress models and empirical evidence gleaned thereby, and then the occupational stressor index, an additive burden model developed from a cognitive ergonomics perspective. In numerous studies, the occupational stressor index is significantly associated with risk behaviors: smoking, obesity and sedentariness and clinical outcomes: hypertension, ischemic heart disease, dyslipidemia and type 2 diabetes. The occupational stressor index characterizes the work conditions of physicians including surgeons and anesthesiologists; professional drivers and other groups at elevated risk for stress-related disorders. Much of these empirical data are from this region. Work-stress related health disorders are a major public health problem, with enormous human and economic costs. A more proactive role for physicians is needed vis-?-vis our working environment and that of patients. We physicians face a heavy job stressor burden strongly implicated with adverse health outcomes. The challenge is to identify effective strategies to lower the risk of work-stressor related illness. The critical gap is the lack of evidence-based guidelines. Intervention studies are needed in which job stressors are ameliorated as a therapeutic/preventive modality; the logical starting point is within our own profession. We also suggest how the relevant clinical competence could be enhanced. Alongside clinical enhancement should be the full restoration of physician empowerment to implement work-related recommendations. A participatory action research perspective by physicians for physicians and for our patients is needed.

scholarly journals Determinant Factors of Work-Related Complaints

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Qoni Mulia Sagita ◽  
Yuliani Setyaningsih ◽  
Sulistiyani Sulistiyani
Keyword(s):  
Medical History ◽  
Ventilation System ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Shoe Industry ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Home Workers

Home-based workers of Footwear industries in Semarang Regency are all womans. The employment status of home-based workers usually unrecognized or unregulated by the employer or their itermediaries so that they did not paid close attention about HWBs’s working condition. They often work on inadequate working environment such as poor ventilation system, bad lighting, humid working space (damp wall and floor), and also poor layout of furnitures and work equipments. That condition exaberated by lack of HWBs’s knowledge and awareness regarding their health and safety at work. In addition HBWs often with little to none education, work on long extended working hours and working under intensive labor.This research was aimed to determine the relationship between respondent characteristics, medical history, and use of PPE with work-related complaints on home workers of shoe industry in Semarang regency. This was an observational analytic study using cross sectional approach. Population in this study was 80 home workers of shoe industry in Semarang regency. The samples are 66 home workers were taken using stratified random sampling method. Data were analyzed using frequency distribution and Chi-Square test. The results of this study showed that there were some variables that have significant association with work-related complaints (p≤ 0.05) including, length of work, duration of work, personal protective equipment (PPE). While the variables of age, body mass index (BMI), and medical history did not show significant association with work-related complaints (p> 0.05). Multivariate analysis using logistic regression showed the duration of work had the most powerful influence to the work-related complaints. The conclusion of this study was important for home workers to maintain health condition by doing exercise to avoid work-related complaints. Home workers that have long duration of work should increase the use of PPE such as masks and gloves.

scholarly journals Evaluation of safety trends in construction, mining and transportation sectors in Turkey

Sigurnost ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatih Yilmaz ◽  
Serpil Bardakci Tosun
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Preventive Services ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Fatal Accidents ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Accession Process ◽  
Very High ◽  
The Eu

SUMMARY: Production processes in construction, mining and transportation involves high risks of occupational accidents all over the world. In 2014, 25.6% of the total accidents and 65% of fatal accidents occured in these three sectors in Turkey. According to the Eurostat data, in 2014, 20% of all work-related accidents and 38% of fatal accidents have occurred in these sectors in EU. The fatality rates in Turkey are very high compared to EU countries. In Turkey, these sectors have high accident risks due to its production processes, use of low-tech, negative conditions and labor-intensive characteristics. Production machines are old, and protective-preventive services are inadequate. Especially in the construction sector, unregistered labor and subcontracting is widespread. Labor inspection is inadequate. In EU accession process, legislative works done in the field of health and safety in Turkey in recent years have not been enough. New regulations were introduced related to protective-preventive services, risk assessment, information and education workers. Nevertheless, occupational accidents has not decreased at the desired level. This paper contains a comperative and statistical analysis of accidents in coal mining, construction and transportation sectors in Turkey and EU. The official statistics data are used in the EU and Turkey. To prevent accidents, action plans must be prepared for each of the three sectors. Practices must be determined and followed strictly within the frame of these action plans.

scholarly journals Employment conditions and health inequities: a case study of Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 2452-2460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Costa Dias ◽  
Roberval Passos de Oliveira ◽  
Jorge H. Machado ◽  
Carlos Minayo-Gomez ◽  
Marco Antonio Gomes Perez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Universal Coverage ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Knowledge Network ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
The Social

This paper was prepared for the Employment Conditions and Health Inequalities Knowledge Network (EMCONET), part of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. We describe the Brazilian context of employment conditions, labor conditions and health, their characteristics and causal relationships. The social, political and economic factors that influence these relationships are also presented with an emphasis on social inequalities, and how they are reproduced within the labor market and thereby affect the health and wellbeing of workers. A literature review was conducted in SciELO, LILACS, Google and Google Scholar, MEDLINE and the CAPES Brazilian thesis database. We observed that there are more workers operating in the informal sector than in the formal sector and these former have no social insurance or any other social benefits. Work conditions and health are poor in both informal and formal enterprises since health and safety labor norms are not effective. The involvement of social movements and labor unions in the elaboration and management of workers' health polices and programs with universal coverage, is a promising initiative that is underway nationwide.

scholarly journals Work conditions and health risks of persons employed in construction in Latvia

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Tatjana Farbtuha ◽  
Žanna Martinsone ◽  
Ivars Vanadziņš ◽  
Jānis Dundurs ◽  
Inese Mārtiņsone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Employee Health ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Work Condition ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Work Related ◽  
State Revenue

Work conditions and health risks of persons employed in construction in Latvia The health effects of the work condition in construction were the focus for this study. The construction sector involves numerous risk factors, which can essentially endanger employee health and safety by causing accidents, occupational diseases and work-related diseases. The aim of this study was to examine the work condition, identity risk factors in the workplace, analyse the morbidity and accidents in the construction sector. According to the data of the State Revenue Service, the number of persons employed in construction in Latvia is growing each year. In the construction sector the number of accidents per 100 000 employees has tended to fall between 2003 and 2005, but the number of serious accidents has risen 1.3 times. Employees in construction companies are not sufficiently informed about the work environment risk factors and their influence on health and safety.

scholarly journals Professional moral character of physicians and clinical working environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 107 (12) ◽  
pp. 590-596
Author(s):  
Svanur Sigurbjörnsson ◽  
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Vilhjálmur Árnason ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Character ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Comparison Results ◽  
General Physicians ◽  
First Time

INTRODUCTION. A survey of the experience of Icelandic medical candidates, general physicians, and specialty physicians of clinical work, aimed to show how the working environment affects doctors’ moral character and experience of support, well-being and expectations. For comparison, results of a British survey with the same questions for specialty physicians were used. MATERIAL AND METHODS. A total of 89 physicians answered 15 questions. Statistical comparison was made between results from topical clusters of questions. RESULTS. The results show a significant problem in work conditions of Icelandic doctors. Their experience is rated low in the second quarter (2,1 – 3,0) on a numerical scale of how the environment thwarts professional character and of lack of support. In comparison with British specialists, their experience is similar but slighly better regarding supportiveness. Icelandic candidates and general physicians experience significantly more stress, less support and autonomy in their work than specialists. Compared to the British, the experience of Icelandic specialists was more positive about professional autonomy and emotional attachment to the work. Our survey shows for the first time the effect of the working environment on professional virtues of Icelandic doctors. DISCUSSION. These findings resonate with the literature that the moral character of doctors contributes to satisfaction, flourishing and experience of meaningfulness. They substantiate views raised by Icelandic physicians about tremendous work stress and scarcity of staff. The survey demonstrates the doctors‘ experience of work-related challenges and provides reasons for society to improve their working conditions to enable them to live up to their ideals.

scholarly journals OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: CASE STUDIES FROM HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION WORKERS AT ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Thewodros Bekele Tolera
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
Work Related

The status of occupational injuries in workplaces in general is ill defined in Ethiopia. Pocket studies indicate that occupational injury due to an unsafe working environment is increasing. Construction industries are growing industries region wise that has higher rate of work-related injuries. Knowing the associated factors of work-related injuries can be a critical step for improving the working condition of workers in the sector. Objective: This mini research aimed to evaluate occupational hazards and to describe factors affecting its happening among construction workers’ in Addis Ababa housing and construction project sites. Institutional based cross-sectional study design was employed to assess occupational injuries among randomly selected construction workers from June 30 –July 20, 2014. A structured questionnaire based interviews, work environment observation were used to collect the data. The response rate of this study was 82.7%. The majority of respondents were male which account 74.7% and 60 (96.8%) respondents were not using personal protective devices all the time while they are on duty. Out of the total participants, 67.7% of the workers experienced occupational injuries at least once in the last 12 months. Moreover, the three leading cause of injuries were puncture (21.0%) followed by hand injury (11.3%), and back pain (9.7%). Increased rate of work related injury in construction workers was observed and implementation of basic occupational health and safety services is required together with regular supervision to ensure and promote work place safety. So Preventive measures concerning functional occupational health and safety programs are essential to safeguard the health and safety condition of workforce in construction industries.

COVID–19 as a Source of Psychosocial Hazard Related to Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (34) ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Ewa Matuska
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Psychosocial Risks ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Crisis Situation

The article deals with occupational health and safety in the context of the emergence of a new threat of COVID-19 disease. It focuses on occupational stress and organizational problems experienced by employees in the context of economic problems of companies and administrative restrictions caused by pandemic crisis situation. The research question of the article is: How do the employees adapt to the initial phase of coronavirus crisis situation in their working environment? The theoretical part of the article contains the comparative analysis of the psychosocial hazards and proposal of their classification with the reference to COVID-19 syndrome. The research part analyzes the current results of survey studies dedicated to the perception of pandemic by employees in Poland. In the conclusion the author advocates for including new psychosocial work hazards which appear in connection to COVID-19 outbreak into already existing official lists of work-related psychosocial risks. It is especially recommended in case of evaluation of occupational health and safety in flexible work and remote work models.

scholarly journals Analysis of Management in Health and Safety at Work Related to Employees Working in Health Teaching / Research Laboratories in a University

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-60
Author(s):  
Vilson Menegon Bristot ◽  
Cristina Keiko Yamaguchi ◽  
Kristian Madeira ◽  
Vilmar Menegon Bristot ◽  
Marcelo Leandro de Borba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Controversial Topic ◽  
Health Teaching

The search for always providing the best environment for its employees and students, allowed a university to open its doors for an evaluation regarding issues of health and safety at work, a very controversial topic, which leads many companies to close their doors and not accept this kind of "invasion" in your privacy. In this assessment, it can be seen that it is a favorable working environment for users, as their SESMT always looks for improvements and complies with the legislation, but there were also points to improve.

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