RESEARCH PAPER
Staff opinion on work arduousness in the social welfare home
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Instytut Medycyny Pracy i Zdrowia Środowiskowego w Sosnowcu
Zakład Szkodliwości Fizycznych, Fizjologii Pracy i Ergonomii. Kierownik Zakładu: dr n. przyr. S. Marzec
Corresponding author
Ewa Kułagowska
Instytut Medycyny Pracy i Zdrowia Środowiskowego, 41-200 Sosnowiec, ul. Kościelna 13 tel. 32 266 08 85 wew. 264; fax. 32 266 11 24;
Instytut Medycyny Pracy i Zdrowia Środowiskowego, 41-200 Sosnowiec, ul. Kościelna 13 tel. 32 266 08 85 wew. 264; fax. 32 266 11 24;
Med Srod. 2011;14(4):58-65
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ABSTRACT
Background:
Acquaintance with staff opinions on work arduousness at Social Welfare Home
Material and methods::
An anonymous questionnaire containing 27 questions was used as a major tool of this study. Questionnaires to be completed by the employees to collect information on scope of tasks, way of tasks performance, equipment; staff opinion about working conditions, difficulties at work, physical load and causes, ways of physical load abate, work and tasks arduousness and complaints at work. Borg`s scale was used to evaluate the work and tasks arduousness. The questionnaires and Borg`s scale were completed by 42 (89%) employees: 10 (71%) nurses, 20 (95%) guardians and 12 (100%) chambers-maids.
Results and conclusions::
The obtained results show that the work at the Social Welfare Home is very hard because of manual lifting or transporting the tenants,– lack of auxiliary equipment and facilities, architectural barriers, inadequate number of employees in comparison with number of tenants and their health. The obtained results showed that over 90% of respondents complained of musculoskeletal pains, oedema of legs, numbness of rms.
Acquaintance with staff opinions on work arduousness at Social Welfare Home
Material and methods::
An anonymous questionnaire containing 27 questions was used as a major tool of this study. Questionnaires to be completed by the employees to collect information on scope of tasks, way of tasks performance, equipment; staff opinion about working conditions, difficulties at work, physical load and causes, ways of physical load abate, work and tasks arduousness and complaints at work. Borg`s scale was used to evaluate the work and tasks arduousness. The questionnaires and Borg`s scale were completed by 42 (89%) employees: 10 (71%) nurses, 20 (95%) guardians and 12 (100%) chambers-maids.
Results and conclusions::
The obtained results show that the work at the Social Welfare Home is very hard because of manual lifting or transporting the tenants,– lack of auxiliary equipment and facilities, architectural barriers, inadequate number of employees in comparison with number of tenants and their health. The obtained results showed that over 90% of respondents complained of musculoskeletal pains, oedema of legs, numbness of rms.
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