The purpose of this study is to find injurious factors and to propose an improvement plan on workers' musculoskeletal disorders at a bakery workplace through analyzing the symptom, work posture and quantitative estimate. For this study, a survey and ergonomic estimate methods were adopted. According to the survey, it was analyzed that 429 workers corresponding to 68.2% of the response have been experienced the symptoms of musculoskeletal disorders such as an ache, prickle and numbness. The result of QEC analysis shows that shoulder and waist are highly exposed to musculoskeletal disease. The result of RULA analysis shows that injurious factors of muscle, weight and repeated operations are a little higher than those of operation posture. The result of SI estimate shows that pre-treatment of making bread requiring highly repeated operation gets the highest point of 81, on the other hand, chocolate-coating job requiring relatively low speed and short time gets the point of 4.5. Based on the analyzed results, improvement plan to prevent the musculoskeletal disorders against injurious working process of a bakery workplace. The goal of this study is to propose the improved scheme that prevents the workers against musculoskeletal disorders. A questionnaire and an ergonomic assessment method were adopted to analyze the symptoms of workers' musculoskeletal disorders, and an analysis of working postures and a quantitative assessment on various processes were performed to find out harmful factors of workplace.

A research project was conducted to study work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) at a die-casting plant in Korea. The project was consisted of 4 main parts; education on the topics of MSDs for all workers, symptom survey, medical check-up, investigation of MSD risk factors. The result of symptom survey showed that 89.5% of the respondents complained pains on at least one part of the body. After cross-sectional analysis of various information and risk factors based upon NIOSH criteria, 83.3% of respondents were considered as active health surveillance level 1, and 16% of the respondents were considered as active health surveillance level 2 those are at high risk of having MSDs based upon a criteria developed by Institute of Labor Science at University of Incheon. Also the result of medical examination by a industrial medicine MD showed that 41workers(44.1%) out of 93 workers examined were considered as MSD patient group at moderate level, and 10 workers(10.8%) were considered as MSD patient group at relatively high level that require certain level of medical treatment and ergonomics interventions for their workplace. The analysis of the work environment using various ergonomic investigation techniques revealed that repeated awakard postures(50%) and highly repatitive task(37.5%) were two most contributing risk factors for the on-set of MSD at this work site followed by handling of heavy object(8.3%), and vibration(4.2%).

Recently, WRMSD(Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders) that can be frequently found among simple and repetitious works has been a big occupational safety issue, and has begun to being studied actively by many Korean researchers. However, those researches have been largely relied on foreign ones, due to the lack of basic data in Korea. In this study, we have tried to search the actual conditions and factors on WRMSD of press workers in a local company. In addition, we examined how the contents of works and postures of the workers affect the disease. It is expected that the data collected in this study will be able to used for planning the preventive measures on WRMSD effectively and for implementing its corresponding programs.

Recently, both management and labor are interested in the increasing ratio of musculoskeletal disorders. And the developed countries make efforts to consider a counterplan such as prevention activity of musculoskeletal disorders and application possibility of ergonomic program, because musculoskeletal disorders take large portion out of occupational disease. Especially, small and medium enterprises have bigger problems due to the inferior work condition and environment in comparison with big businesses. This study is to introduce developed countries' cases such as WISE(Work Improvement in Small Enterprises) and OSHA Handbook for Small Businesses and to suggest the program of ergonomic management for small and medium enterprises having comparative difficulties against big businesses in improving work environment and managing ergonomic operations.

Back pain is painful for people at a lower lumber(L4/L5 or L5/S1). It is experienced as a most frequent disaster 70％ of workers have suffered from back-pain. Especially, the occurrence rate of back pain for nurses is very high. Therefore, this study investigates female nurses who worked as a part of a medical cost management team, which mainly deal with the medical insurance in a general hospital at Seoul area. These nurses had different job tasks, which used computers for 50％ of their time, so it can be treated as VDT workers. As a first step of this project, a muscle fatigue was measured for these special VDT workers. First, survey for nurses was conducted to figure out what is a real problem of them. Second, to evaluate an experimental data, a medical cost management team was chosen for subjects. Areas of measurement were 3 places that were the trapezius (TR), the medial deltoid (MD), and the erector spine muscle (ES: L4/L5). These areas are most frequently used, so they were chosen for this study. Measurements were taken before work and after work. From these measurements, it was revealed that a fatigue really comes from their main VDT task excluding natural fatigue after work, so their work environment need to be corrected.

최근 산업안전/보건분야에서 누적외상성질환(Cumulative Trauma Disorders： CTDs)과 직업성요통(Low Back Injury)과 같은 근골격계질환은 산업현장에서 어렵지 않게 발견할 수 있는 신종 산업재해의 일종이다. 특히 미국의 경우, 발생건수와 그로 인한 인적/물적 손실이 급격하게 증가되고 있는 것으로 나타나고 있다. 그러나 미국과 같이 근골격계질환의 폐해를 일찌감치 인식하고 그 해결방안을 연구해온 나라들에서는 현재 환자관리 및 인간공학적인 기준 등을 포함하는 예방지침들이 잘 정착되어 있는 실정이다. 우리나라의 경우에는 작업환경 등의 조건과 상황이 미국과 같은 구미 선전국과 비숫하고, 특히 제조업의 생산체계가 그런 나라들과 매우 유사하여 근골격계질환의 발생과 그로 인한 인적/물적 손실이 적지 않을 것이라고 예상할 수 있지만 아직까지 CTDs에 대한 전반적인 이해가 부족하고, 정확한 실태가 파악되지 못하였으며, 따라서 체계적인 관리 대책 또한 마련되어있지 않은 실정이다. 본 조사에서는 서울 근교의 수송기계관련 사업장의 작업들에 대한 작업자세에 중심을 둔 인간공학평가를 통하여 조사 작업의 근골격계질환에 대한 상대적인 위험도, 위험요인 등을 파악하고, 그에 따른 개선 대책의 방향을 제시하고자 하였다. 특히, 각 부위별 위험점수와 부위별 증상호소율의 상환분석결과, 작업자 개인적 수준에서는 통계적으로 유의한 차는 없는 것으로 분석되었으나, 부서별로 분석한 결과, 작업시 주로 사용하는 오른쪽 상지의 경우, 오른쪽 어깨, 팔꿈치, 손목 순으로 통계적으로 유의하게 관련이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 즉 증상호소율과 해당 신체부위의 위험도 점수는 서로 정적(positive)한 관계에 있는 것으로 나타났고, 상지 중 주로 사용하는 오른쪽 부담의 위험도 자세 점수와 증상호소는 비교적 높은 상관관계에 있는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 이와 같은 인간공학적 분석결과는 향후 인간공학적인 개선대책의 개발 뿐만 아니라 의학쪽에서 근골격계질환을 접근하는 초기단계에서 매우 유용한 역할을 할 수 있으리라 생각된다.

작업과 관련된 근골격계 질환은 선진국에서는 1970년대부터 문제가 제기되어 왔다. 특히 좋지 않은 작업자세, 손가락의 반복사용에 의한 목, 어깨, 손목 등의 누적된 근골격계 질환이 문제가 되고 있다. 우리나라에서도 작업과 관련된 근골격계 질환에 연구가 최근에 많이 진행되고 있으나 주로 외국의 연구이론을 적용하고 있으며 국내의 기초 데이터는 매우 부족한 형편이다. 본 연구는 근골격계 질환을 유발시키는 작업유형 가운데 유발율이 상대적으로 높은 국내 H 회사의 맨홀작업의 근골격계 질환의 실태를 알아내고 이를 유발시키는 여러 인자를 찾아내었다. 또한 신체의 아픈 부위와 정도에 따른 작업내용과 작업환경 조건과의 관계도 규명하였다. 이러한 연구 자료는 효과적인 예방 프로그램을 계획하고 실행하는 데 많은 도움을 줄 수 있을 것이다.

Purpose - Due to the lack of physical activities and the increase of sedentary behaviors such as screen time, the health condition for contemporaries has been deteriorating. This study is designed to investigate how the use of worktable or tools unfit for body and sedentary behaviors can exercise influence on muscular skeletal disease and how it has an impact on lowering work efficiency and the quality of life with the medium of the muscular skeletal disease. Research design, data, and methodology - The research has developed a questionnaire with 5 hypothesis. The questionnaires were also made by interview and E-mail. 350 copies of questionnaires were distributed and 315 questionnaire were used for the analysis as valid data responses. SPSS ver.22.0 were used and made Cronbach's and reliability test, correlation, Baron & α Kenny 3 step mediated regression analysis. Results - The research has found that living environment factors have positive effect on the occurrence of musculosketal disease. Particularly, repeated use of unfit worktable or tools has a positive effect on the muscular skeletal disorder. And sedentary lifestyle also has a positive effect on the disease. The musculoskeletal disease caused by living environment has a positive impact on lowering the work efficiency. This study has also showed that the muscular skeletal disease has mediated the relationship between the living environment factors and the decrease of work efficiency due to musculoskeletal disease. The musculoskeletal disorders can effect the decrease of the quality of life as well, for the decrease of work efficiency has a positive effect on lowering the quality of life. Conclusions - Sedentary lifestyles, the use of worktable unfit for body, and the repeated use of a tool have caused the increase of muscular-skeletal diseases, and reduction of productivity as well as the hight cost of medical treatment for our contemporaries. Understanding the cause of disease morbidity, finding ways to prevent the disease, and educating people about them would contribute not only to improvement of individual health but also to the advancement of welfare for all.

본 연구는 병의원에서 근무하고 있는 방사선들을 대상으로 근골격계 질환 현황 조사를 통해 추후 방사선사의 체계 적이고 효율적인 자원 관리를 위한 기초자료로 이용하고자 한다. 본 연구를 위하여 2011년 7월 10일부터 31일까지 약 20일에 걸쳐 전국의 의원, 병원, 종합병원, 대학병원의 방사선사를 대상으로 설문조사를 하였다. 본 연구의 주요 결과 는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 신체 부위별로 근골격계 증상 여부에 대하여 빈도분석을 한 결과, 목 부위는 22.5%, 어깨 부위 는 33.1%, 팔/팔꿈치 부위는 8.3%, 손/손목/손가락 부위는 15.5%, 허리 부위는 32.4%, 다리/발부위는 전체의 16.9% 로 나왔다(p<0.05). 둘째 직무스트레스, 사회심리스트레스, 피로도의 기술통계를 정리한 결과 직무스트레스 전체는 Likert 4점 척도에서 평균 2.48, 사회심리스트레스는 Likert 4점 척도에서 평균 2.27로 직무스트레스가 사회심리스트 레스보다 약간 높게 나왔다. 피로도의 경우 Likert 7점 척도에서 평균 4.57로 ‘보통이다’보다 약간 높은 것으로 나왔다 (p<0.05). 결론적으로 본 연구는 향후 방사선사의 근골격계질환에 대해 예방활동을 전개하고자 할 때 체계적이고 효 율적인 자원 관리를 위한 기초 자료로 도움이 되길 기대한다.

본 연구는 전․의경에 대한 체계적이고 효율적인 인적자원 관리를 위한 기초 자료로써의 성격을 갖는다. 우선 전·의 경과 경찰관을 대상으로 방사선 검사 중 단순 X-선검사, CT 검사, MRI 검사를 시행한 환자를 대상으로 분석을 실시 하였다. 질환별 분류에 있어서는 신체부위별로 일반 질환과 근 골격계 질환으로 분류하였다. 근 골격계 질환은 다시 검 사 부위별로 세분화하여 분석하였다. 경찰관과 전 의경의 정량적 비교에 있어서는 단순 X-선검사, 전산화 단층 촬영 술, 자기공명영상검사의 부위별 평균 인원을 비교하였다. 연구 결과 전 의경은 단순 X선 검사, CT 검사, MRI 검사 등 세 검사 모두 Lower extremity 검사가 다른 부위에 비해 가장 많이 차지하고 있으며 Lower extremity 검사 중에서 특히 Knee 검사 비율이 가장 많이 차지하고 있다.