Assessing Body Posture and Skeleton -Muscular Disorders and Related Factors in Workers of Greenhouse in Khomeinishahr City



Nasiri S¹ ; Zamani K¹ ; Ebrahimi S¹ ; Ghazanfari H¹ Show Affiliations
Source: International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology Published:2015

Abstract

Introduction& Purpose Nowadays inappropriate body posture at work is considered one of the most important risk factors of skeleton -muscular disorders¸as though many organic methods for improvement of work conditions and prevention of skeleton -muscular disturbances are egual to improvement of body posture at work. Skeleton -muscular disorders related to work are considered as one of the most common business disturbances and injuries. Among businesses in which these disorders are so common can be referred to farmers and workers of greenhouses.so symptoms are depending upon age, working history, work stations, exposure time and reguired force of work. So, this study was implemented with the objective of assessing body posture and skeleton -muscular disorders and Related Factors in workers of greenhouse in khomeinishahr city. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytic investigation was done on 150 workers of greenhouses which have been chosen in simple approach¸ at different work stations. Body postures of the workers were assessed using demographic guestionnaire and software WinOwas¸and statistical analysis of data was implemented by using software spss¸ statistical test x2 ¸and variance analysis.values p<0/05 were considered as meaningful. Results The results from this study illustrated that among150 workers of greenhouse 47.4% had inappropriate body posture.and among 1800 assessed postures, 56% had back disorders and 44 had feet disorrder at risk of being hurt¸and 57% of postures watched at greenhouse work stations were placed among priorities for improvement actions 2,3 and 4 causing stress, harmful, and much harmful. In addition, there were a meaningful statistical relation between body posture and age record of working, average working hours of a day, education, and work station.)p<0/05(Conclusion Based on the results of this research, the prevalence of skeleton- muscular disorders at greenhouse work stations has been in organs of back and feet, and among different work stations, body posture was unsuitable at filling flower-pot and weeding out stations (back was bended and feet were on one or bothe knees). So, in plans of applying ergonomy approaches to cure the disorders at work, priority is to take improvement action at these stations. © 2015, International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology. All rights Reserved.