Workloads and occupational accidents in a rural environment

Rocha, Laurelize Pereira; Cézar-Vaz, Marta Regina; Almeida, Marlise Capa Verde de; Borges, Anelise Miritz; Silva, Mara Santos da; Castanheira, Janaína Sena

doi:10.1590/0104-07072015000480014

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“…Work is constituted by conditions that generate workloads that act directly or indirectly in workers' health (1) . In nursing, workloads are related to overwork, inadequate physical structures, excessive work hours, and shortages in the quantity of workers.…”

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Workloads and burnout of nursing workers

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Objective: to identify workloads in nursing work and its association with nursing worker burnout. Method: a cross-sectional study, including 211 nursing workers from a university hospital, between July and August 2016. For the analysis, the descriptive statistics, Chi-Square Test, Fisher’s Exact Test and Mann Whitney U-Test were used. Results: the most evidenced loads were biological. A significant association was found between workloads and workers’ occupation, as well as a significant association between workloads and worker burnout. Burnout caused upper limb pain, neck and lumbar pain, lower limb pain, muscle spasm, lower limb edema, mental fatigue, headache, nervousness, and forgetfulness. Conclusion: workloads identification is a subsidy for the promotion of interventions that minimize the burnout generated to the health of the nursing worker.

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“…A study conducted in Brazil with 259 farmers from two rural areas reported that repetitive work, followed by lifting heavy loads and incorrect posture, were among the main workloads identified by rural workers (28) . Although no association was found between physical, temporal, performance and effort demands and medication use, their association can result in physical overload, especially of the musculoskeletal system, and consequently lead to higher use of medication for this system.…”

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Rural workload and factors associated with the use of medication by elderly people

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Objective: Identify the prevalence and factors associated with the use of medication by elderly rural workers and verify the association between the use of medication and rural workload. Method: Cross-sectional, exploratory study, conducted among elderly rural workers from the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The data was collected through interviews, using a structured questionnaire. Results: Ninety-five elderly people participated in the study. Prevalence of medication use was 32% higher among women than men, and the type of medication most used by women was for the nervous and musculoskeletal systems. One additional degree in the frustration level with farm work resulted in a 1% increase in the probability of elderly people using medication. Conclusion: It is necessary to consider strategies that seek to reduce the physical and mental demand of rural work, through investments in public policies that enable elderly people to reduce rural labor for subsistence purposes and, consequently, their workload.

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“…Stress and physical workload may impair the ability of the staff members and can lead to high-risk behavior and accidents (16). Heavy physical work and exposure to workloads may lead to occupational accidents (50). Inadequate training, non-adherence to safety procedures, and permit to work systems, poor communication, inadequate procedures, and arrangements for securing evacuation and escape were the major causes of Piper Alpha disaster (51).…”

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Prioritization of Human Factors Variables in the Management of Major Accident Hazards in Process Industries Using Fuzzy AHP Approach

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Background: Human factors play an important role in process safety and can have dramatic effects on the safety performance of organizations. In addition, human factors are very important elements in safety management system and management of major accident hazards in process industries. Many variables of human factors may affect the safety in process industries, which need to be addressed in a more holistic approach. Objectives: This study was designed to determine the most important variables of human factors in the management of major accident hazards in process industries through the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (fuzzy AHP) approach in 2017. Methods: After specifying human factors variables including the job, the individual (personal), and the organization factors and related sub-factors, fuzzy AHP approach was proposed to determine the weights and the degree of importance of factors and related sub-factors. Factors and related sub-factors were weighted using triangular fuzzy numbers in pairwise comparisons and fuzzy linguistic variables. Results: Organization factors got the highest relative weights (0.381) in comparison with other studied factors. Among organization sub-factors, safety culture had the highest importance (0.33). Among individual sub-factors, competence of personnel is recognized as the most important sub-factor (0.37). The highest relative weights for job sub-factors were obtained for ergonomic design and environmental factors (0.17). Conclusions: Determining and identifying the most important variables of human factors in process safety are very important for organizations. The present study demonstrates that organization factors are the most important variables in the management of major accident hazards in process industries with the application of fuzzy AHP. Safety culture, staff competence, ergonomic design, and environmental factors are the most important sub-factors.

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Workloads and occupational accidents in a rural environment

Cited by 19 publications

References 14 publications

Workloads and burnout of nursing workers

Workloads and burnout of nursing workers

Rural workload and factors associated with the use of medication by elderly people

Prioritization of Human Factors Variables in the Management of Major Accident Hazards in Process Industries Using Fuzzy AHP Approach

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