Summary Of Work-Related Pain And Injury

Summary of Article The study discussed the prevalence of pain and injury mainly related to workplace, and identify barriers and challenges that employees face within the workplace. The major focus on the study are work-related pain, incident, injury, disability, and reporting issues within Las Vegas hotel room cleaners. The main objective of the study was to examine the prevalence of work-related pain and injury among workers at Las Vegas hotel rooms cleaners. The data method collection conducted by surveyed 941 workers associated with work-related pain, injury, disability, and reporting. The study stated 75% of workers faced work-related pain during the past 12 months. The study mentioned 31% reporting issues has released to the …show more content…
31% out of 75% reported their issue to the management. 20 % failed to obtain workers' compensation benefits, and 35% out of 75% were denied workers' compensation benefits. The authors presented a clear issue. I believe that this issue is very common among hotel room workers. The main problem with this issue that most of hotel room workers do not obtain sufficient education. A significant number of those workers are foreign and afraid to loss their job when asking about workers’ compensation benefits. If workers knew their rights, they would ask their employers to obtain workers' compensation benefits. The authors analyzed that the hospitality industry represents one of lowest low-wage service workers in the U.S. Also the housekeeping represents the second lowest low-wage. Apparently, workers who occupied in this filed are foreign females. Most of workers have families and they are not willing to sacrifice of their family by placing themselves in risk of losing jobs. Employers exploit this aspect to increase benefits from foreign …show more content…
The purpose of the study however was “To design effective workplace interventions that take the dynamics of underreporting into account, non-administrative data are needed on work-related pain, injury, and disability and the barriers to reporting” (Scherzer, p. 486, 2005). I am totally agree with the objective of the study because the issue is obvious. I am totally agree with the objective of the study because the issue is obvious. The purpose of the study is not effective. The purpose of the study should be to investigate employers and awareness hotel workers because the core of the issue was the exploitation of employers and lake of workers education, unknowing workers' compensation