scholarly journals A Model Questionnaire for Evaluation of Musculo Skeletal Disorder

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Author(s):  
Sanjit Kumar Kar
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Hand Tools ◽  
The Real ◽  
Work Posture ◽  
Long Duration ◽  
Skeletal Disorder ◽  
Community Health Development

 Occupational health hazards are the very important unavoidable problems of different type of jobs. All occupational jobs contain several tasks and workers are compelled to adopt some harmful and awkward postures during performing those tasks. These types of repetitive jobs may be related to occupational health hazards like musculo skeletal disorder (MSD). In the present methodology different MSD related problems of the workers can be assessed by the questionnaire techniques considering the issues of community health development. In this concern a simple and easily applicable questionnaire technique has been established for the different occupations during performing tasks. It was concluded that MSD among the workers might be related to the stressful work posture, long duration jobs, nature of jobs and use of ill-fitted hand tools. So, with the application of the questionnaire, investigator can evaluate the real physiological problems and give them remedies. Journal of Universal College of Medical Sciences (2016) Vol.04 No.02 Issue 14, page: 46-48 

Assessing the common occupational health hazards and their health risks among oil and gas workers

2021 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 105284
Author(s):  
Chizubem Benson ◽  
Christos Dimopoulos ◽  
Christos D. Argyropoulos ◽  
Cleo Varianou Mikellidou ◽  
Georgios Boustras
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
The Common

scholarly journals Occupational health hazards of trichloroethylene among workers in relation to altered mRNA expression of cell cycle regulating genes (p53, p21, bax and bcl-2) and PPARA

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 748-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meenu Varshney ◽  
Abhijit Chandra ◽  
Rajeev Jain ◽  
Riaz Ahmad ◽  
Vipin Bihari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Cycle ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Mrna Expression ◽  
Health Hazards

scholarly journals Health hazards and risks for musculoskeletal problems among child labourers in the brickfield sector of West Bengal, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 250-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Banibrata Das
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Respiratory Health ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Control Subjects ◽  
Strenuous Activity ◽  
Musculoskeletal Problems

Abstract Aims The purpose of this study was to describe the health hazards among child labourers in brickfields, and to assess occupational health problems, together with physiological and respiratory stress, compared with child control subjects. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on 112 child brickfield workers and 120 control subjects, and a modified Nordic Questionnaire was applied to assess the discomfort felt among both groups of workers. Physiological assessment of the workload was carried out by the measurement of heart rate, blood pressure and spirometry of the workers. Results Child brickfield workers suffer from pain, especially in the lower back (97%), shoulder (88%), hands (82%), wrist (76%), neck (73%) and ankle (71%). The post-activity heart rate of the child brickfield workers was 166.5 beats/min, whereas the systolic and diastolic blood pressures were 132.2 and 67.2 mm/Hg, respectively. The forced vital capacity value of child brickfield workers was 2.04, and in the case of the controls it was 2.18, which was significantly different. The forced expiratory volumes in 1 s of experimental and control subjects were 1.82 and 1.92, respectively. The peak expiratory flow rate was significantly different between the two groups. Conclusions Most of the brick-making activities were strenuous ones that affected the children. The cardiovascular and respiratory health of the child brickfield workers has changed markedly due to strenuous activity. The child brickfield workers also experienced other occupational health problems and severe musculoskeletal pain.

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