Sustainable postural research for women workers from power-loom industry Solapur city, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

The majority of women workers were performing spinning, warping and finishing tasks in the power-loom industry; espousing an awkward posture. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) are most important problems related to the cyclic and challenging working awkward posture. This study focuses on identification of ergonomic physical risk factors caused because of awkward posture and explores its association with the prevalence of WRMSDs among the ladies staff from power-loom industry Solapur town, geographic area, India. The WRMSDs indications were known estimated and analyzed victimization the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) and Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA). Statistical analysis of ANOVA was performed to search out significance between variables of anthropometry and job details to the departments. NMQ results disclosed that the very best rates of disorders were found within the upper Arm (60%) wrist (52%), neck (42%), and Trunk (64%) severally, and therefore the consequences of the RULA technique showed that the upmost level of risk within the region of upper Arm (risk level four) and within the Trunk (risk level three point five). In addition, the multivariate analysis proven that age and job expertise had a major correlation with the prevalence of MSDs (Table 1, if P < 0.05, significant). By trying the values of correlation coefficients, there's no huge distinction to perform video analysis for analysis of RULA or NMQ for locating pain in body regions.