TY - GEN
T1 - Measurement of the ergonomic risk awareness in workers of moving companies in Lima, Peru
AU - Meneses-La-Riva, Monica Elisa
AU - Di deus Ocupa-Meneses, Benjamin
AU - Suyo-Vega, Josefina Amanda
AU - Bedoya, Víctor Hugo Fernández
AU - de Jesús Stephanie Gago-Chávez, Johanna
AU - Ocupa-Cabrera, Hitler Giovanni
AU - Di Deus Ocupa-Meneses, Giovanni
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In the world, non-compliance with laws on occupational risk prevention is one of the factors that threatens labor quality. The objective of this study is to determine the perceived levels of ergonomic risk in workers of moving companies working in Lima, Peru. The research is of a basic type, with a quantitative, descriptive, non-experimental design and cross-sectional approach. The population consisted of a total of 70 workers who perform moving activities in Lima and who are hired by a moving company. The instrument used was the ergonomic risk awareness questionnaire consisting of 2 dimensions: geometric ergonomics risk awareness and temporary ergonomics risk awareness, with 17 items on a Likert scale. Results show that 100% of the workers present a medium level of ergonomic risk awareness. It was also observed that 100% of the workers present a medium level of geometric ergonomics risk awareness, while 65.71% of them present a low level of temporal ergonomics risk awareness and 34.29% a medium level. Finally, we recommend that managers of moving companies train their employees on ergonomics-related topics in order to increase awareness even more. We also encourage other researchers to carry out comparable investigations to further scholarly discussion on this novel topic.
AB - In the world, non-compliance with laws on occupational risk prevention is one of the factors that threatens labor quality. The objective of this study is to determine the perceived levels of ergonomic risk in workers of moving companies working in Lima, Peru. The research is of a basic type, with a quantitative, descriptive, non-experimental design and cross-sectional approach. The population consisted of a total of 70 workers who perform moving activities in Lima and who are hired by a moving company. The instrument used was the ergonomic risk awareness questionnaire consisting of 2 dimensions: geometric ergonomics risk awareness and temporary ergonomics risk awareness, with 17 items on a Likert scale. Results show that 100% of the workers present a medium level of ergonomic risk awareness. It was also observed that 100% of the workers present a medium level of geometric ergonomics risk awareness, while 65.71% of them present a low level of temporal ergonomics risk awareness and 34.29% a medium level. Finally, we recommend that managers of moving companies train their employees on ergonomics-related topics in order to increase awareness even more. We also encourage other researchers to carry out comparable investigations to further scholarly discussion on this novel topic.
KW - Ergonomic risk awareness
KW - geometric ergonomics
KW - moving companies
KW - temporal ergonomics
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85172294483
T3 - Proceedings of the LACCEI international Multi-conference for Engineering, Education and Technology
BT - Proceedings of the 21st LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education and Technology
A2 - Larrondo Petrie, Maria M.
A2 - Texier, Jose
A2 - Matta, Rodolfo Andres Rivas
PB - Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions
T2 - 21st LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education and Technology, LACCEI 2023
Y2 - 19 July 2023 through 21 July 2023
ER -