Interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers: a review

Background: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are one of the most common work-related health problems affecting workers across all employment sectors. It causes problems in several economic activity sectors in industrialized countries. Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify which specif...

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Main Authors: Mohd Shafiei, Umi Kalsom, Karuppiah, Karmegam, Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri, Rasdi, Irniza, Alias, Ayuni Nabilah
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Language:English
Published: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34245/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34245/1/Interventions%20to%20reduce%20musculoskeletal%20disorders%20among%20motor%20vehicle%20workers%20a%20review.pdf
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author Mohd Shafiei, Umi Kalsom
Karuppiah, Karmegam
Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri
Rasdi, Irniza
Alias, Ayuni Nabilah
author_facet Mohd Shafiei, Umi Kalsom
Karuppiah, Karmegam
Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri
Rasdi, Irniza
Alias, Ayuni Nabilah
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description Background: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are one of the most common work-related health problems affecting workers across all employment sectors. It causes problems in several economic activity sectors in industrialized countries. Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify which specific types of interventions were effective to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers. Results: Among of these studies, two of them were conducted in Netherlands and the other two also were conducted in the United State. The other five remaining articles were conducted in Japan, Finland, Italy, China and United Kingdom. All of them were intervention studies but only one of this was systematic review. In general, of the 9 included studies, 7 of the reviews showed positive effect from the implemented interventions done at their workplace. The 2 reviews presented that the interventions was not effective towards their workers. Conclusion: Overall, among several types of intervention used to reduce MSD, there is the most common type of intervention that usually applied towards motor vehicle workers which is administrative control intervention. However, this type of intervention is not effective as engineering control intervention which is provide more positive effects.
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spelling upm-342452016-09-15T04:53:05Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34245/ Interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers: a review Mohd Shafiei, Umi Kalsom Karuppiah, Karmegam Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri Rasdi, Irniza Alias, Ayuni Nabilah Background: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are one of the most common work-related health problems affecting workers across all employment sectors. It causes problems in several economic activity sectors in industrialized countries. Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify which specific types of interventions were effective to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers. Results: Among of these studies, two of them were conducted in Netherlands and the other two also were conducted in the United State. The other five remaining articles were conducted in Japan, Finland, Italy, China and United Kingdom. All of them were intervention studies but only one of this was systematic review. In general, of the 9 included studies, 7 of the reviews showed positive effect from the implemented interventions done at their workplace. The 2 reviews presented that the interventions was not effective towards their workers. Conclusion: Overall, among several types of intervention used to reduce MSD, there is the most common type of intervention that usually applied towards motor vehicle workers which is administrative control intervention. However, this type of intervention is not effective as engineering control intervention which is provide more positive effects. American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34245/1/Interventions%20to%20reduce%20musculoskeletal%20disorders%20among%20motor%20vehicle%20workers%20a%20review.pdf Mohd Shafiei, Umi Kalsom and Karuppiah, Karmegam and Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri and Rasdi, Irniza and Alias, Ayuni Nabilah (2014) Interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers: a review. Advances in Environmental Biology, 8 (15). pp. 219-224. ISSN 1995-0756; ESSN: 1998-1066 http://www.aensiweb.com/old/aeb_Special8-ICEOH_2014.html
spellingShingle Mohd Shafiei, Umi Kalsom
Karuppiah, Karmegam
Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri
Rasdi, Irniza
Alias, Ayuni Nabilah
Interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers: a review
title Interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers: a review
title_full Interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers: a review
title_fullStr Interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers: a review
title_full_unstemmed Interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers: a review
title_short Interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers: a review
title_sort interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorders among motor vehicle workers: a review
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