WORK LOAD DUE TO STAMPING TASK AS A SIMPLE REPETITIVE HAND WORK

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the automotive industry due to repetitive work - implications for rehabilitation

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) due to repetitive work are common in manufacturing industries, such as the automotive industry. However, it's still unclear which MSDs of the upper limb are to be expected in the automotive industry in a first aid unit as well as in occupational precaution examinations. It is also unclear which examination method could be performed effectively for pra...

Fatigue, Work Decrement, and Endurance of Women in a Simple Repetitive Task.

Comparison of flow-resistive work load due to humidifying devices.

There are many kinds of humidifying devices. We evaluated six humidifiers from the viewpoint of AWLs. The AWL was obtained by calculating the area difference between pressure-volume tracings obtained without and with humidifiers. To examine the effect of pressure monitoring sites on AWL when a humidifier is placed, we measured AWL at three different pressure monitoring sites. The AWL was affect...

the study of work-family conflict and family-work conflict due to work alienation

this paper aims at studying the effects of work/family conflict and family/ work conflict as a result of work alienation. some theories of goffman, duxbury and higgins, kirchmeyer and cohen, merton, inglehart and faunce are applied in the study. the research is conducted through a survey method. stratified random sampling has been used for selection of the samples. main data collection method f...

Work Absenteeism Due to a Chronic Disease

Research on health-related work absenteeism focuses primarily on moral hazard issues but seldom discriminates between the types of illnesses that prompt workers to stay home or seek care. This paper focuses on chronic migraine, a common and acute illness that can prove to be relatively debilitating. Our analysis is based upon the absenteeism of workers employed in a large Fortune-100 manufactur...