| Summary: | 碩士 === 嘉南藥理大學 === 職業安全衛生系 === 103 === The job contents of the studios employees in various departments usually are repetitive work, if employees doing the long-term jobs wih improper postures easily increase the risk of musculoskeletal injuries. In this study, we use Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) and Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) to investigate labor related musculoskeletal and eye injuries of employees. NMQ questionnaire results shows theres up to 75% of employees have muscularskeletal discomfort phenomenon, among those uncomfortable body position the highest prevalence are "lower back or the waist", "foot or ankle" and followed by the "eye". Uncomfortable symptom is "pain" as the highest, followed by "numb". Uncomfortable symptom of eye is "dry sour" as the highest, then "blurred vision".
Chi-squre test is applied to expore the relationship between discomfort situations and various variables. Discomfort situations have significant realationship with the variables of age, housework frequency, nature of work, working hours, work experience. Eye discomforts have significant relationship with the variables of age, nature of work, working period, working hours. Neck discomforts have significant relationship with height and the nature of work. Upper back discomforts have significant relationship with exercise habits and frequency of using computers. Elbow discomforts have significant relationship with frequency of using computers and work experience. Lower back discomforts and waist discomforts have significant relationship with height. Hips and thighs discomforts have significant relationshops with sex, frequency of using computers and work experience.
The REBA scores of the half departments indicate medium risk and call for further investigation and the other half deapartmensts indicate high risk and call for immediate improvement. The departments among those high risk groups are retail departments, popcorn seller, cashiers, ticket department and floor cleaning staffs.
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