A Study on the Factors Influencing Overall Fatigue and Musculoskeletal Pains in Automobile Manufacturing Production Workers

In South Korea, the automobile sector is a key industry that occupies very large proportion of production, employment, and exports in national economy. However, production workers are still exposed to wide range risk factors. This study aims investigate relationships between personal characteristics or occupational hazard exposure subjective overall fatigue musculoskeletal pains manufacturing industry. We extracted 446 as subjects from data 5th Korean Working Conditions Survey. The χ2 test performed whether there differences distribution complaints view working environment hazards logistic regression analysis was used analyze them. Results showed proportions complaining group increase time increases. Longer tobacco smoke shows higher rates pain. show gender, longer fumes dust, manual heavy loads handling, repetitive motion were factors for work experience, hours, noise, awkward posture, high temperature pains. results close characteristics, hazards, fatigue,