Prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal injuries among South Indian hand screen-printing workers

Shankar, S.; Kumar, R. Naveen; MohanKumar, P.S.; Jayaraman, Srinivasan

doi:10.3233/wor-172612

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“…stressors is greater in bigger organizations, excepting for role clarity. They are consistent with past research on stress factors (e.g., Dekker and Barling, 1995) and rewards (e.g., Ingham, 1970) and findings that stress is positively related to organizational size (Health and Safety Executive [HSE], 2016) and job satisfaction is negatively related to organizational size (Clark et al, 1996;Bender et al, 2005).…”

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Assessing the Risk of Stress in Organizations: Getting the Measure of Organizational-Level Stressors

et al. 2019

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Great Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) developed the Management Standards Indicator Tool to help organizations to assess and monitor organizational risks of work-related stress through surveying employees about the psychosocial risks for stress in their jobs. The use of employee-level data for deriving an organizational-level measure of psychosocial risks assumes that the constructs have equivalent meanings at different levels. However, this isomorphic condition has never been tested and this study fills this gap. Using data collected by the Italian Workers' Compensation Authority (INAIL) from 66,188 employees nested in 775 organizations, we demonstrate that the organizational-level measure representing the seven dimensions of the Management Standards Indicator Tool is equivalent, though not identical, to the individual-level measure. This implies that the organizational level is not a mirror of the aggregation of the individual level, and that the risk of work-related stress in an organization may derive not simply from bottom-up processes, but may be generated by top-down influences (e.g., organizational policies). Interventions may then be meaningfully targeted at the organizational level in the expectation that they will reduce the risk of work-related stress among the entire workforce, the valid measurement of which can be performed through the HSE's Management Standards Indicator Tool.

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Assessing the Risk of Stress in Organizations: Getting the Measure of Organizational-Level Stressors

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“…Work-related MSDs (WMSDS) can cause productivity reduction, decrease work quality,[ 10 ] and increase in absenteeism. [ 11 ] Evidence has shown that reducing and preventing musculoskeletal problems is an important global priority.…”

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Effectiveness of training program in manual material handling

Jari,

Niazmand-Aghdam,

Mazhin

et al. 2022

Journal of Education and Health Promotion

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BACKGROUND: Even in an era of automation and digitalization, Manual Material Handling (MMH) can be called the most common industrial task. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) induced by manual handling tasks on the workers of a printing factory in Tehran in 2017 and then to evaluate the effectiveness of a training intervention based on health promotion. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study had quasi experimental design and was conducted on 40 men. First, demographic data were collected and the Nordic questionnaire was used to determine the prevalence of MSDs in workers. Then, MMH tasks were assessed using Manual Handling Assessment Chart (MAC). A short training course was designed to promote health. Finally, the same MMH tasks were re-evaluated 3 months after the training intervention. RESULTS: Among the various tasks, the highest prevalence of work-related MSDs (WMSDs) was observed in the lower back (77.5%) and shoulder (62.5%). Based on the final scores of the MAC method, the jobs that received the highest scores were cutting (individual lifting), with 22 scores and action level “immediately necessary,” cutting (individual load carrying), with 15 scores with action level “urgently needed.” Arranging the forms (individual lifting) received a similar score. After the training intervention, the estimated risk level reduced by 12, 9, and 6 points, respectively, reaching a safe action level, i.e., “necessary in the future.” CONCLUSION: The results demonstrated that educational interventions might be equally effective in low-technology work environments. More in general, the MAC method can be used to make informed planning of educational interventions against WMSDs risk in MSDs. This health promotion approach is critical for care of human recourse.

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“…[1][2][3] Flexor tendon injuries are one of the most common industrial hand injuries occurring due to an increased industrialization around the globe. 4 Usually, among hand injuries the flexor tendon is the most common clinical presentation with or without other associated injuries to the bone and neurovascular structures caused by road traffic accident, industrial accident; glass cut or knife cut and occasionally results in avulsion injuries as well. 5 The prevalence of flexor tendon injuries in an Indian population context is still lacking and is under research.…”

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“…5 The prevalence of flexor tendon injuries in an Indian population context is still lacking and is under research. 4 A study from the USA estimates an incidence at about 14/100,000-person per years, 6 while a study among the Finnish population puts the figure at 7/100,000-person years. 7 The majority of the hands are either crushed, clamped, rolled-in, or cut or sawed by tools, resulting in impairment and disability.…”

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Importance of hand impairment measures on return to work among industrial workers with zone II flexor tendon repair

Anitha

Manikumar

Muthukumaran

2022

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Introduction: Hand injuries are one among the commonest yet the most serious occupational trauma among industrial workers leading to impairment of the hand as it affect the return to work (RTW) and sometimes may even cause permanent dysfunction leading to disability. This study investigated the importance of hand impairment measures on RTW and the overall hand impairment measures among industrial workers with Zone II Flexor tendon repair. Methods: Seventy-six subjects with industrial hand injury were recruited in this study to answer the RTW questionnaire and hand evaluation was performed on their affected hands. RTW outcomes assessed whether the subjects successfully returned to the same work, either from a job change, job modification or salary reduction, and the length of the time taken to return to work (TRTW). The hand impairment measures included the hand impairment ratio, total active motion loss, grasp power loss, lateral-pinch power loss, and palmar-pinch power loss. Results: The result of the study indicated that grasp power loss was a significant predictor for the length of TRTW. Besides, the hand impairment ratio was also found to have mild significance influence with TRTW.

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Prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal injuries among South Indian hand screen-printing workers

Abstract: Study results infer that HSP workers are prone to lower back and shoulder pain followed by knees and ankle feet regions. Socio-demographic factors, awkward posture and repetitive movements contribute to cause MSD among hand screen-printing workers.

Cited by 24 publications

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Assessing the Risk of Stress in Organizations: Getting the Measure of Organizational-Level Stressors

Assessing the Risk of Stress in Organizations: Getting the Measure of Organizational-Level Stressors

Effectiveness of training program in manual material handling

Importance of hand impairment measures on return to work among industrial workers with zone II flexor tendon repair

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