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Interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers: a review


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Mohd Shafiei, Umi Kalsom and Karuppiah, Karmegam and Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri and Rasdi, Irniza and Alias, Ayuni Nabilah (2014) Interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers: a review. Advances in Environmental Biology, 8 (15). pp. 219-224. ISSN 1995-0756; ESSN: 1998-1066

Abstract

Background: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are one of the most common work-related health problems affecting workers across all employment sectors. It causes problems in several economic activity sectors in industrialized countries. Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify which specific types of interventions were effective to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers. Results: Among of these studies, two of them were conducted in Netherlands and the other two also were conducted in the United State. The other five remaining articles were conducted in Japan, Finland, Italy, China and United Kingdom. All of them were intervention studies but only one of this was systematic review. In general, of the 9 included studies, 7 of the reviews showed positive effect from the implemented interventions done at their workplace. The 2 reviews presented that the interventions was not effective towards their workers. Conclusion: Overall, among several types of intervention used to reduce MSD, there is the most common type of intervention that usually applied towards motor vehicle workers which is administrative control intervention. However, this type of intervention is not effective as engineering control intervention which is provide more positive effects.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Publisher: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information
Notes: Special International Conference of Environmental and Occupational Health (ICEOH 2014)
Keywords: Ergonomic; Interventions; Musculoskeletal disorders; Motor vehicle workers
Depositing User: Nurul Ainie Mokhtar
Date Deposited: 15 Sep 2016 04:53
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2016 04:53
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34245
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