Forced Postures in Courgette Greenhouse Workers
Occupational health and safety allows the prevention of occupational diseases and accidents. Agriculture is one of the sectors in which it is important to prevent the musculoskeletal disorders that workers usually develop. The objective of this study is the evaluation of postures adopted by courgett...
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| author | Gómez Galán, Marta González Parra, Juana María Pérez Alonso, José Golasi, Iacopo Callejón Ferre, Ángel Jesús |
| author_facet | Gómez Galán, Marta González Parra, Juana María Pérez Alonso, José Golasi, Iacopo Callejón Ferre, Ángel Jesús |
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| description | Occupational health and safety allows the prevention of occupational diseases and accidents. Agriculture is one of the sectors in which it is important to prevent the musculoskeletal disorders that workers usually develop. The objective of this study is the evaluation of postures adopted by courgette farmers in greenhouses of the Almeria-type. OWAS (Ovako Working Posture Assessment System), an ergonomic evaluation method, is used and applied after making observations to the postures adopted by the workers who were previously video recorded. The results concluded that the four risk levels established by OWAS appeared, with 37.14% being the highest rate and belonging to risk level 2, 33.33% to risk level 1, 28.57% to risk level 3, and 0.95% to risk level 4. Therefore, depending on the severity of the postures adopted in each task, the need for changes in a short, medium, or long period of time was concluded. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-75682023-11-15T14:51:54Z Forced Postures in Courgette Greenhouse Workers Gómez Galán, Marta González Parra, Juana María Pérez Alonso, José Golasi, Iacopo Callejón Ferre, Ángel Jesús musculoskeletal disorders OWAS agriculture biomechanics Occupational health and safety allows the prevention of occupational diseases and accidents. Agriculture is one of the sectors in which it is important to prevent the musculoskeletal disorders that workers usually develop. The objective of this study is the evaluation of postures adopted by courgette farmers in greenhouses of the Almeria-type. OWAS (Ovako Working Posture Assessment System), an ergonomic evaluation method, is used and applied after making observations to the postures adopted by the workers who were previously video recorded. The results concluded that the four risk levels established by OWAS appeared, with 37.14% being the highest rate and belonging to risk level 2, 33.33% to risk level 1, 28.57% to risk level 3, and 0.95% to risk level 4. Therefore, depending on the severity of the postures adopted in each task, the need for changes in a short, medium, or long period of time was concluded. 2020-01-17T12:58:24Z 2020-01-17T12:58:24Z 2019-05-21 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2073-4395 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7568 en https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/9/5/253 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | musculoskeletal disorders OWAS agriculture biomechanics Gómez Galán, Marta González Parra, Juana María Pérez Alonso, José Golasi, Iacopo Callejón Ferre, Ángel Jesús Forced Postures in Courgette Greenhouse Workers |
| title | Forced Postures in Courgette Greenhouse Workers |
| title_full | Forced Postures in Courgette Greenhouse Workers |
| title_fullStr | Forced Postures in Courgette Greenhouse Workers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Forced Postures in Courgette Greenhouse Workers |
| title_short | Forced Postures in Courgette Greenhouse Workers |
| title_sort | forced postures in courgette greenhouse workers |
| topic | musculoskeletal disorders OWAS agriculture biomechanics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7568 |
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