1. INTRODUCTION
OSHA defines musculoskeletal disorders as “Injuries and disorders of the muscles, nerves, tendons, ligaments, joints, cartilage, and spinal disk”. According to OSHA, the MSDs listed as: Carpel tunnel, Rotator cuff syndrome, De Quervain, Trigger finder, tarsal syndrome, Sciatica, Epicondylites, and Tendonitis.
Most of the work related MSD’s are developed over time and are caused by the work itself or the working environment of the employees. These are also possible to occur from accidents, examples being fractures and dislocations.
Musculoskeletal disorders primarily affects the back, neck, shoulders and upper limbs , less often they affect the lower limbs .Health problems caused by MSD’s range from discomfort , minor aches and …show more content…
An improved understanding of MSD’s in different construction workers is likely to give us preventive measures. However, the construction industry is vast in its division of labour and the assessment of which is difficult in a short period. Hence, we intend to focus on workers with problems concerning the upper body movements i.e., using hand tools.
The following workers are concentrated on; sheet metal workers, painters, carpenters and masons. Most of their injuries are strains and sprains of the upper body muscles.
The population size of the construction site is too large to take in consideration and hence there is a need to find the sample size. The survey will contain a questionnaire of Nordic scheme that judges the socio-economic conditions, job descriptions, physical and mental health conditions of construction workers with the help of Likert scale is used to rate the pain associated with MSD.
The questionnaire requires a field of narrowed down workers whose job concerns with the upper body movements. The analysis of the work is not a onetime process and requires regular visits involving repeated surveys. The Repeatability in the questionnaire is necessary to obtain consistent results to reduce the error and to identify the prevalence of
OSHA defines musculoskeletal disorders as “Injuries and disorders of the muscles, nerves, tendons, ligaments, joints, cartilage, and spinal disk”. According to OSHA, the MSDs listed as: Carpel tunnel, Rotator cuff syndrome, De Quervain, Trigger finder, tarsal syndrome, Sciatica, Epicondylites, and Tendonitis.
Most of the work related MSD’s are developed over time and are caused by the work itself or the working environment of the employees. These are also possible to occur from accidents, examples being fractures and dislocations.
Musculoskeletal disorders primarily affects the back, neck, shoulders and upper limbs , less often they affect the lower limbs .Health problems caused by MSD’s range from discomfort , minor aches and …show more content…
An improved understanding of MSD’s in different construction workers is likely to give us preventive measures. However, the construction industry is vast in its division of labour and the assessment of which is difficult in a short period. Hence, we intend to focus on workers with problems concerning the upper body movements i.e., using hand tools.
The following workers are concentrated on; sheet metal workers, painters, carpenters and masons. Most of their injuries are strains and sprains of the upper body muscles.
The population size of the construction site is too large to take in consideration and hence there is a need to find the sample size. The survey will contain a questionnaire of Nordic scheme that judges the socio-economic conditions, job descriptions, physical and mental health conditions of construction workers with the help of Likert scale is used to rate the pain associated with MSD.
The questionnaire requires a field of narrowed down workers whose job concerns with the upper body movements. The analysis of the work is not a onetime process and requires regular visits involving repeated surveys. The Repeatability in the questionnaire is necessary to obtain consistent results to reduce the error and to identify the prevalence of