The correlation of Occupational musculoskeletal disorders and occupational safety behaviors in assembly line workers / 中华劳动卫生职业病杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To study the correlation of occupation musculoskeletal disease (OMD) and safety behavior in assembly line workers.@*Methods@#Selected assembly line workers of 3 manufacturing factory in Pacity as the objects of this study by judgement sampling. Questionnaires were used for messages collection including the general sociodemographic characteristic, OMD condition, occupational safety behaviors.@*Results@#This study shows that, 826 OMD workers were found that the annual prevalence was 38.03%. The scores of work posture, handling habits, health habit in OMD group was lower than non-OMD group (P<0.01) but personal protection behavior was higher than non-OMD group (P<0.01) . Test of binary logistic regression revealed that age, workage, work posture, handling habits were the factors of OMD (P<0.01) .@*Conclusion@#Safety behaviors were the potent factors of OMD that work posture and handling habits should be broadcast.