“…The literature contains several studies indicating that WRMDs affect almost every body part of workers in this industry, including the arm (Amano et al, 1988), the neck (Serratos-Perez & Mendiola-Anda, 1993), the shoulder (Descatha et al, 2004;Leclerc et al, 2004), the hand/finger (Gupta & Mahalanabis, 2006), the elbow (Descatha et al, 2007), the upper back (Aghili et al, 2012), the lower back (Warnakulasuriya et al, 2012), the knee (Dianat & Salimi, 2014), the hip/thigh and ankle/foot (Silva et al, 2016). In addition, the Brazilian footwear industry is marked by a history of physical and psychological violence perpetrated by supervisors against shop floor workers (Borsoi et al, 2009;Rigotto et al, 2010). Previous studies in footwear industries have evaluated the influence of few psychosocial factors in WRMDs or did not consider their impact on the various parts of the body.…”