“Riesgos de desarrollar trastornos musculoesqueléticos en el personal de corte de calzado evaluado a través del método rula de forma manual”

Abstract

The development of the following research work aims to identify risks present in the workers of the manufacture of footwear within the area of manual cutting which have been classified as a vulnerable sector within the working class by factors such as poor positions that they involve muscle strain, excessive muscle load, finally subjected to vibrations repetitive movements that according to the literature are the factor to which there is greater exposure by workers who perform manual activities reason why musculoskeletal disorders are generated directly affected on the health of the worker, business productivity and becoming a social and health problem due to the high numbers of registered cases. The present investigation was developed with the participation of the footwear producing companies that make up the CALTU Ambato, which expressed their interest and full collaboration for the realization by making available all the companies for their socialization with the people who work in the area of Cut for the respective application of the instrument. The instrument used was the Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA), which provided information on the level of intervention or intervention, classifying the cutting activity in different levels of risk and allowing them to be related to the presence of musculoskeletal disorders.