Physical and Psychosocial Work Environment and Health of Farm Workers
The general aim of the three studies was to investigate the physical and psychosocial work environment and health of hired Swedish farm workers on large modern dairy and swine farms. The studies were mainly based on questionnaires, among others the general Nordic questionnaire and a Swedish translation of the short version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ). The results showed that the dairy and swine farm workers, especially the females, reported high frequencies of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), especially in the upper extremities and in the back. Machine milking among the dairy farm workers and manual raking of manure among the swine farm workers were the most time-consuming work tasks, and the tasks with the highest rated physical work strain index (PWS). Milking in a rotary milking system was found to be physically demanding with respect to high values of velocities and repetitiveness and almost no time for rest for hands and wrists. Although the farm workers were contented with their psychosocial work environment and were in good mental health, the psychosocial work environment for the dairy and swine farm workers may well be improved in order to promote these work places as attractive and healthy. In addition, the present studies suggest the probability that factors associated in the physical work environment are more likely to lead to MSD than factors related to the psychosocial work environment.
Musculoskeletal Disorders Mental Health Agriculture
Christina Kolstrup
Department of Work Science, Business Economics & Environmental Psychology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden.
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-9
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）