Trabajo muscular y su incidencia en las lesiones musculoesqueléticas en trabajadores de la industria metalmecánica

Abstract

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The musculoskeletal disorders provoked by repetitive movements, inadequate positions and raising loads in the work concern not only the health of the worker causing diverse types of occupational diseases, but also to the company diminishing his productivity. The investigation takes as an aim the identification of musculoskeletal injuries and his relation with the labor positions of the metalmechanic workers in Latacunga. By means of the Northern Questionnaire applied to a population of 50 workers, there bring musculoskeletal discomfort, the same ones that were corroborated on having found painful point or points I cock in the physical exploration of the clinical history, the above mentioned pathologies, especially those of vertebral column, were caused by the bad positions that the workwers adopts on having realized his labors, In the analysis of working stations by the method “OWAS” (Ovako Working Analysis System) there are demostrated clearly the overwork those who are submitted by bad designs of the workplaces, many activities demand that the column generates angulations or the arms work over the shoulders what penalizes results of the study doing that most of working station studied (28 of 41) have a high risk of reasons musculoskeletal affectations. The investigation also I identify, by means of FRIMAT's and CHAMOUX methods, the physical load in the workers, concluding that the cardiac frequency rises more in the collaborators who manipulate generating tools of heat, not only for the source but also for the workwear used.