Evaluación de la carga postural en trabajadores de la U.T.A desde un punto de vista antropométrico

Abstract

The "Universidad Técnica de Ambato" located in the city of Ambato does not have an anthropometric database of its workers, acquiring musculoskeletal injuries in the different activities they develop. In this project, data was collected from each of the workers, identifying the work area, observing their activities and evaluating which one is being subjected to a: In order to classify the activities with greater occupational risk, the evaluation of the postural load was used by means of the Reba method and a specific software that allows evaluating the level of risk to which each action of the participants is subjected, among the most important are the inclination of their trunk, the flexion of their legs, arms and neck measured by means of angles. For the collection of the anthropometric database, the INTE/ISO 7250-1:2018 standard was used, which indicates the measures that should be taken into account for the study, in addition to a table of results for their registration, they were subsequently evaluated, and their percentiles and chi-square were calculated, respectively, resulting in the validity of our hypothesis. The development of this project allows to improve productivity and job satisfaction by creating an anthropometric database that will serve to determine whether the workers of the U.T.A. and the activities they perform are exposed to occupational risk, causing musculoskeletal injuries in the long or short term.