BACKGROUND Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) affect the well-being of workers. Unfortunately, user requirements for design to reduce workplace risk factors for MSDs are not always effectively communicated to designers creating a mismatch between the user requirements and what is ultimately produced. OBJECTIVE To understand the views of practitioners of design and ergonomics regard...

Background: Occupational stress has physical and psychological consequences, and is a major cause of job dissatisfaction among employees, which can reduce the quality of services provided. This study was conducted to examine the relationship between job stress and the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among computer users in hospitals (private & governmental) of Gorgan, Iran, in 20...

Introduction Mental disorders, musculoskeletal diseases (MSDs) and their comorbidities are major threats to work functional ability. The relationship between mental health the common MSDs has not received enough attention Objectives To study socio-professional characteristics of workers suffering from related MSD evaluate association with anxiety depression disorders Methods A descriptive cross...

This study investigates the cross-sectional descriptive characteristics of male shipbuilding workers’ musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and factors associated with MSDs in neck, shoulders, elbows, low back, or knees. From national compensation data confirmed as during three years between 2015 2017, 985 workers were analyzed terms age, work experience, occupations, company size, MSD type accordin...

Introduction: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are most important work-related injuries and debilities in developed and developing industrial countries. In the recent years, the rate of injuries and MSDs in car montage industries compared with other industries was so more. Therefore, the purpose of present study was focused on ergonomic assessment of sina car montage industry employees’ workin...

background: musculoskeletal disorders (msds) are common among employees throughout the world, particularly in high risk groups such as nurses. objective: to determine the prevalence of msds among nurses in a large hospital in ahwaz, southwestern iran, and to examine its correlation with gender, age, shift working, years at service and smoking. methods: using a self-reported questionnaire-based ...

Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) is damage to the musculoskeletal system that accumulates and causes abnormalities due repeated trauma, causing complaints of pain in muscles. Ergonomics has an important role preventing MSDs. Employee work activities at CV. Rempah Sari industrial company engaged cinnamon bark. Workers feel on upper neck, lower left shoulder, right back, arm, waist, hips knee. Th...

Previous research has shown that musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are one of the barriers for women to adopting tea-picking mechanization technology. Musculoskeletal defined as a group injuries affect system including nerves, tendons, muscles, and supporting structures. MSDs also referred due overactivity or from using device excessively. Some results significantly show gender greatly affects l...