This paper is published in Volume 3, Issue 3, 2018
Area
Work-related Health Problems
Author
Amal Ali Mukhtad
Co-authors
Hager Abdulkareem Aminese, Mona Abdulrazig Mansor, Huda Salam Mansour, Heba Alsharif Elmesmary
Org/Univ
University of Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya, Libya
Pub. Date
31 March, 2018
Paper ID
V3I3-1243
Publisher
Keywords
Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders, Health Risk at Work, Laboratory Technicians at Health Care.

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Amal Ali Mukhtad, Hager Abdulkareem Aminese, Mona Abdulrazig Mansor, Huda Salam Mansour, Heba Alsharif Elmesmary. Ergonomic risk assessment among healthcare laboratory technicians in benghazi medical centre, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARnD.com.

APA
Amal Ali Mukhtad, Hager Abdulkareem Aminese, Mona Abdulrazig Mansor, Huda Salam Mansour, Heba Alsharif Elmesmary (2018). Ergonomic risk assessment among healthcare laboratory technicians in benghazi medical centre. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 3(3) www.IJARnD.com.

MLA
Amal Ali Mukhtad, Hager Abdulkareem Aminese, Mona Abdulrazig Mansor, Huda Salam Mansour, Heba Alsharif Elmesmary. "Ergonomic risk assessment among healthcare laboratory technicians in benghazi medical centre." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 3.3 (2018). www.IJARnD.com.

Abstract

Laboratory health-care technicians, including microbiologists, pathologist, chemists and etc, are exposed to a number of risk factors in the workplace for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). But, the individual effect of these risk factors on laboratory technicians in Libya is unknown. Objective: The aim of this study was to know the risk factors and its individual contribution for work-related MSDs (WMSDs) among laboratory technicians in health care system. Materials and Methods: Descriptive Cross-Sectional study, done on laboratory health-care technicians in Benghazi Medical Centre (BMC). Risk factors were categorized into personal and workstation which was known using questionnaire and RULA checklist. Outcomes: A total of 103 subjects participated randomly in the study. Data outcomes display that all the study participants are at ergonomic risk caused by static & repetitive working postures during laboratory tasks such as computer workstation and pipetting workstation that were found to be the most important contributory factors in WMSDs. Conclusion: Medical laboratory technicians are strongly encouraged to adopt preventive measures toward personal and workstation-related risk factors before symptoms of WMSDs develop.
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