Identification and Risk Assessment of Potential Risk of Musculoskeletal Disorder and Fire and Safety Department in HPCL Visakh Refinery Visual Analogue Scale and NMQ
Author : Kosrekar Dharmesh Purshottambhai
Abstract :
Objective: identifying problem of MSDs among the workers working in Fire and safety department and estimate the losses due to the problem. Suggesting tools to reduce the risk of MSDs.
Material and Methods: The method use for investigation of potential dieses related to MSDs the VAS is a common scale used to measure the intensity of pain (Huskisson, 1982). It is a 10 cm line with anchors of “no pain‟ and “worst pain possible” with a score of zero and ten respectively. The VAS is a simple, widely used self-report measure that has excellent reliability and validity.
Standardized questionnaires for the analysis of musculoskeletal symptoms in an occupational health contest are presented. The questions are forced choice variants and may be either self-administered or used in interviews. It concentrates on symptoms most often encounter in an occupational environments. The reliabilities mostly acceptable.
Result: When observing results we find the occupational activities in Fire and safety department as high to Moderate potential of MSDs in worker. Among the list of identified work group (Table-1) having 3 work group having Low potential of MSD, two work groups having more potential to get MSDs rather the 2 work groups have moderate potential of MSDs.
Conclusion: The inadequate job environment and wrong posture were recognized as the most important risk factors in developing and increasing MSDs in different tasks. The improvement of the workshop environment, and education on the proper postures through training, and improvement of the workers’ workstation can have a considerably improve safe work condition and reducing the problem of MSDs. among the workers and employees.
Keywords :
Musculoskeletal disorders, NMQ, oil and gas, visual analogue scale (VAS), fire and safety, ergonomics
