Self-reported fatigue and health complaints of refuse collectors

Lasota, Andrzej; Hankiewicz, Krzysztof

doi:10.1007/s10100-019-00637-w

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“…The way the workers handle the materials and the equipment they use accounts for occupational risks and accidents (Porta et al, 2009). Waste collectors around the world suffer from serious public health issues including work-related injuries, fatigue, morbidity effects, and disease accidents (Lasota & Hankiewicz, 2020).…”

Section: Occupational Health Hazardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study on Occupational Health Hazards of Municipal Solid Waste Workers - A Review

Gowda¹,

Gurusiddappa²,

Kalikeri³

2023

World J Environ Biosci

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Occupational health hazards refer to possible adverse health impacts one undergoes in their working environment. Annually 2.1 billion tons of waste is produced around the world which is usually managed by municipal solid waste workers (MSW) or municipal workers. Managing the waste produced is not an easy task as they work tirelessly. The municipal workers undergo many occupational hazards due to their poor working conditions, poor health and hygiene facilities, lack of proper protective equipment, and less or zero knowledge of proper waste management techniques. The occupational risks include biological risks from pathogens and pathogen-carrying agents such as viruses, bacteria, flies, and rodents; chemical risks from wastes such as biomedical wastes, soaps and detergents, and other poisonous substances and physiological risks due to their working conditions and heavy physiological activity. The health problems of municipal solid waste workers can be classified into musculoskeletal, respiratory, headaches, and dermatological and gastrointestinal problems. Prolonged exposure may lead to problems such as allergies, stomach pain, asthma, and other diseases. Poor working conditions, education, and socioeconomic conditions also act as factors that increase the risk of occupational hazards. This article emphasizes on the types of various health impacts through which municipal workers undergo throughout their work.

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Section: Occupational Health Hazardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study on Occupational Health Hazards of Municipal Solid Waste Workers - A Review

Gowda¹,

Gurusiddappa²,

Kalikeri³

2023

World J Environ Biosci

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“…Occupational injuries, fatigue, accidents, and disease morbidity outcomes are major public health problems that waste collectors face globally [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. Unfortunately, evidence suggests that domestic waste collectors (DWCs) are less protected against occupational health risks [ 4 , 5 , 6 ], directly or indirectly, during the collection and processing of waste to final dumping sites [ 7 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Our Work, Our Health, No One’s Concern”: Domestic Waste Collectors’ Perceptions of Occupational Safety and Self-Reported Health Issues in an Urban Town in Ghana

Lissah

Ayanore

Krugu

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Domestic waste collectors face major public health hazards that result in injuries and morbidity globally. This study explored domestic waste collectors’ perceptions of occupational safety and self-reported health issues in a city in Ghana using a phenomenological qualitative research design. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were held with 64 domestic waste collectors from two waste companies. The transcribed data were imported into NVivo 11.0 software (QSR International, Burlington, MA, USA) for coding, and a content analysis was applied to analyze all the transcribed data using the processes of induction and deduction. The consensual views from the domestic waste collectors showed the waste-company employers’ non-interest in the domestic waste collectors’ occupational safety and health. Poor communication from employers to domestic waste collectors and huge workloads were identified as the causes of the poor implementation of occupational safety practices, which exposed the domestic waste collectors to occupational health hazards. The domestic waste collectors reported that they suffered from occupational injuries, psychosocial disorders, work-related stress, and frequent burnout. The domestic waste collectors adopted coping strategies, such as self-medication, to deal with these occupational hazards, since most of them were not covered by guaranteed health insurance. In addition, the study revealed the non-compliance and non-enforcement of occupational health and safety policies by the employers to guide health and safety training and practices among the domestic waste collectors. In conclusion, the findings suggest that DWCs are exposed to occupational safety and health hazards in their work. Waste-company employers should extend welfare benefits to DWCs, such as health insurance and social security benefits, to ensure their security, health, and well-being. The findings could inform the design of intervention programs and policies to guide training and practices for domestic waste collectors.

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“…Fatigue in ATCs can be measured using a multitude of methods and tools, which can be grouped into two categories: subjective and objective methods [ 4 ]. Subjective self-rating scales and questionnaires have been the most-important sources of data for assessing both ATC and pilot fatigue [ 5 , 6 ]. Two renowned and validated subjective fatigue/sleepiness scales are the Karolinska sleepiness scale [ 7 ] and NASA's task load index [ 8 ].…”

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A High-Efficiency Fatigued Speech Feature Selection Method for Air Traffic Controllers Based on Improved Compressed Sensing

Yan

Mao

Shen

et al. 2021

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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Air traffic controller fatigue has recently received considerable attention from researchers because it is one of the main causes of air traffic incidents. Numerous research studies have been conducted to extract speech features related to fatigue, and their practical utilization has achieved some positive detection results. However, there are still challenges associated with the applied speech features usually being of high dimension, which leads to computational complexity and inefficient fatigue detection. This situation makes it meaningful to reduce the dimensionality and select only a few efficient features. This paper addresses these problems by proposing a high-efficiency fatigued speech selection method based on improved compressed sensing. For adapting a method to the specific field of fatigued speech, we propose an improved compressed sensing construction algorithm to decrease the reconstruction error and achieve superior sparse coding. The proposed feature selection method is then applied to optimize the high-dimension fatigued speech features based on the fractal dimension. Finally, a support vector machine classifier is applied to a series of comparative experiments using the Civil Aviation Administration of China radiotelephony corpus to demonstrate that the proposed method provides a significant improvement in the precision of fatigue detection compared with current state-of-the-art approaches.

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Self-reported fatigue and health complaints of refuse collectors

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Study on Occupational Health Hazards of Municipal Solid Waste Workers - A Review

Study on Occupational Health Hazards of Municipal Solid Waste Workers - A Review

“Our Work, Our Health, No One’s Concern”: Domestic Waste Collectors’ Perceptions of Occupational Safety and Self-Reported Health Issues in an Urban Town in Ghana

A High-Efficiency Fatigued Speech Feature Selection Method for Air Traffic Controllers Based on Improved Compressed Sensing

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