Hospital meal carts are used to deliver meals, drugs and some other materials to patients in the hospital environment. These carts which are moved manually by operators, the health workers, mostly do not comply with ergonomics guidelines and physical requirements of the equipment users in terms of anthropometry data of the region thus increasing the risk of musculoskeletal disorder among...

BACKGROUND Ergonomics awareness helps in its right application and contributes significantly to general wellbeing and safety of worker at workplace. AIM This cross-sectional descriptive study aimed at assessing the level of awareness and knowledge of the science of ergonomics among Medical Laboratory Scientists in Benin City, Nigeria. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 106 medical laboratory s...

background prevalence of low back pain (lbp) and neck pain (np) in workers, especially in nurses is high, but their knowledge of ergonomics is not enough. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of ergonomic training on low back pain and neck pain, posture, and function in female hospital personnel of najaf-abad, iran. patients and methods in this queasy experimental study, ...

This study investigated the influence of workstation and work posture ergonomics on the job satisfaction of librarians in the Federal and State University libraries in Southern Nigeria. The study adopted the survey research design. The total enumeration technique was used to include the 500 librarians from the 37 Federal and State University libraries in Southern Nigeria. Descriptive statistics...

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) originated in the 1970s in Germany where Kurt Semm, a gynecologist and engineer at the University of Kiel, headed a team that constructed laparoscopic instrumentation to successfully perform various laparoscopic gynecological procedures, as well as the first “endoscopic appendectomy” in 1982. The general surgery community adopted this early laparoscopic technolo...

background: in many sub-saharan african countries the rate of antenatal care (anc) has been increased but skilled birth attendance rate is still low. the objective of this study was to evaluate the reasons why women prefer home delivery when facility based delivery is available at minimal cost. methods: this study was conducted in northwest nigeria using a qualitative method (phenomenology) amo...

Intracerebroventricular administration of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) peptides reduces food intake and increases c-Fos in brain areas involved in the control of feeding. To discern behavioral mechanisms through which CART alters the microstructure of feeding, we injected CART-(55--102) (0.1, 0.5, 1, 2 microg, and saline controls) into the lateral ventricle of male Sprag...

original article   health, safety, and environment management are dedicated a vast area in which ergonomics aspects known as one of the related aspects. in the following case study, the occupational hygiene by ergonomic intervention is focused. one of the prevalent activities among industrial sectors' workers in the developing countries is manual lifting tasks and other related physical activit...

Many warehouse slotting algorithms have overlooked worker ergonomics. This research aimed to develop ergonomics guidelines based upon the back and shoulder postures electromyographic (EMG) responses of deltoid erector spinae muscles when individual items are picked from, or full cases replenished to, different shelf heights In first study two studies, participants lifted small representative pi...