| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 職業安全衛生研究所碩士班 === 95 === Pharmacists, who works in the outpatient pharmacy of a hospital, face work stress, suffer of ergonomic risk factors. It demands immediate attention to reduce the occurrence of the worker’s injuries resulting from inappropriate design of the workstation.
The subjects of this study were the pharmacists on outpatient pharmacy of a medical center in the South of Taiwan. There were 4 parts of this study: 1) using questionnaire to survey the musculoskeletal symptoms, 2) using the Baseline Risk Identification of Ergonomic Factors (BRIEF), Rapid Entire Body Assessment(REBA), Rapid Upper Limb Assessment(RULA) checklists to analyze jobs, 3) comparing the characteristics of three ergonomic checklist with questionnaire, 4)building a computer simulation system to simulate and evaluate pharmacy workstations.
The results showed the rate of musculoskeletal disorder symptoms(MSD) was 87.9% by self-reported questionnaire and high MSD in neck(78.8%),shoulder(78.8%) of pharmacists by ergonomic checklists.
The results of computer simulation indicated the raw pharmacy workstations was not appropriate. To reduce ergonomic risk factors, redesigning the working environment and workstations to fit the body size of anthropometry pharmacists.
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