The use of the computer was very support various human activities. Although many of the benefits gained from computer but if we weren’t awareness can cause health problem, such as complaints of eye fatigue. The purpose of this research was to find the relation between distance monitor, duration of computer use, screen display monitor and lighting with complaints of eye fatigue on workers at PT. Indonesia Power UP Semarang. This research was a quantitative research with cross sectional design. Population in this research was all of workers at PT Indonesia Power UP Semarang as many as 280 peoples. Samples was taken by purposive sampling method with some defined criterias until gained 77 people. The instruments used in this research were questionnaires, meter, and lux meter. Univariate analysis performed using the proportion to clarify the prevalence of subjective complaints of eye fatigue and factors related to complaints of eye fatigue, while the bivariate analysis performed by chi-square test (X2) with a significant level of 5%. Result showed that 80,5% had subjective complaints of eye fatigue. Chi square test result were Pvalue of monitor distance variable was 0.499, pvalue of screen display monitor variable was 0.016, pvalue of duration of computer use variable was 0.018 and pvalue of lighting variable was 1.000. The conclution of this research was from the four variables only two which related significantly with complaints of eye fatigue on workers PT. Indonesia Power UP Semarang were duration of computer use and screen display monitor. Keywords: complaints of eye fatigue, computer users, duration of computer use
Health status of workers are crucial to maintain their productivity and it will impact on output per capita. This systematic review aims to evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition and health intervention in workplace setting and implication for further research. Articles were searched from PubMed, PMC, Cochrane Library (Trial), Science-direct, and Google scholar published from 2005-2020. Inclusion criteria was the intervention subject aged 19-64 years old with experimental randomized control trial (RCT) or non-RCT study design. Several keywords used for literature searching including “nutrition education in workplace”, “nutrition intervention in workplace”, and “workplace intervention”. Data were narratively described. Eleven studies were meet inclusion and exclusion criteria and further be reviewed. Five studies focused on intervene food environment in the workplace, four studies focused on nutrition education using different channels i.e., workplace visiting and emails, the other two interventions were objected to decrease health risk regarding occupational health. Positive outcomes were recorded for all workplace intervention, including increase in nutrition knowledge, self-efficacy, reduce risky behavior, and also improved body mass index and blood biomarkers. Workplace nutrition and health intervention proved to be an effective way to enhanced balanced nutrition behavior and improve health status. This study implies an urgency of nutrition and health intervention in a workplace.
Keluhan muskuloskeletal merupakan salah satu masalah yang sering ditemui oleh pekerja tak terkecuali pengrajin batik. Pengrajin batik berisiko terkena keluhan muskuloskeletal dikarenakan jenis pekerjaannya yang dilakukan dengan posisi duduk dengan posisi punggung membungkuk dalam waktu yang lama. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan karakteristik individu dan sikap kerja dengan keluhan muskuloskeletal pada pengrajin batik tulis di Virdes Batik Collection. Penelitian ini termasuk penelitian observasional dengan rancangan cross sectional. Sampel dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 23 orang dengan pengambilan sampel menggunakan simple random sampling. Data didapatkan dari hasil wawancara untuk menetahui karakteristik individu, wawancara menggunakan kuesioner Nordic Body Map (NBM) untuk mengetahui tingat keluhan muskuloskeletal dan observasi dengan metode Rappid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) untuk menentukan sikap kerja. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengrajin batik di Virdes Batik Collection mayoritas pengrajin berjenis kelamin perempuan, umur ≥30 tahun, masa kerja ≥5 tahun dan tidak mempunyai kebiasaan merokok. Untuk sikap kerja yang dilakukan termasuk dalam kategori risiko sedang dengan tingkat keluhan muskuloskeletal sedang. Hasil uji statistik menggunakan Chi Square dengan α=0,05 menunjukkan adanya hubungan yang significan antara jenis kelamin (p=0,014<0,05), umur (p=0,001<0,05), masa kerja (p=0,003<0,05), dan sikap kerja (p=0,000<0,05) dengan keluhan muskuloskeletal. Tidak ada hubungan antara kebiasaan merokok dengan keluhan muskuloskeletal (p=0,247>0,05).
Pharmaceuthical department is one of many department in RSUD Kota Madiun which serve hundreds of patients everyday. Workers on pharmacuthical department has been found having unnatural working posture on their work process, where many workers tend to complain about having low back pain problems. One of suspected problem is unnatural working posture. Unergonomic position, repetitive works, sit for long periods were few of ergonomics problem which occurred everyday. This research aimed to identify work posture and musculoskeletal complaint on pharmaceuthical department workers. This research used cross sectional approach, with population sample were all worker on pharmaceuthical department RSUD Kota Madiun and there are eight people in total. Primary data on this research collected using questionnaires, Body Mass Index measurements, interviews, and observations. Collected data from questionnaires, interview, and Body Mass Index measurements were processed, and the processed data will be analyzed using qualitatif methods of deep interview. The result showed most of worker were having high riks of having musculoskeletal problem based on RULA and REBA evaluation. Most of musculoskeletal complaints were located on their waist, hip, upper neck an lower neck. Hospital should give the workers egonomical training so that workers could avoid having unergonomical posture which lead to musculoskeletal problems. Workers should doing more often aerobic exercise.Keywords: muscoloskeletal complaint, work posture
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