Ergonomics & Human factors 2018
Archives of Medicine
ISSN: 1989-5216
Page 41
July 26-27, 2018
Rome, Italy
1
st
Edition of International Conference on
Ergonomics &
Human Factors
T
he restaurant market in Israel is large, accounting for 2.4% of
the total revenue of the economy. The organization of work in
restaurants is determined according to the management criteria.
Risk factors include food preparation, serving, cleaning, mental
and physical factors resulting in work-related musculoskeletal
disorders (WRMSDs). It was found that the prevalence of pain
at the end of waiters’ working day was 55% in the upper back,
50% in the lower back, and 45% in the neck. We aim to investigate
this population in Israel, to assess the prevalence of WRMSDs
among waiters, and to evaluate the association between work
hazards and WRMSDs. An observational cross-sectional study
including one hundred waiters from three restaurants aged 18-
60 working full-time, at least two years. Excluding criteria will be
serious accidents and spinal and skeletal surgeries, with pain
lasting longer than three months. Participants will fill out seven
questionnaires: basic demographics and working conditions;
occupational-medical-historical questionnaire, the neck disability
index (NDI); quick disabilities of the arms, shoulders and
hands (DASH); the modified Oswestry low back pain disability
questionnaire (MOQ), a psychosocial questionnaire containing
estimation workload (WL), burnout (BMQ), job satisfaction (JAQ),
and task frequency questionnaire. Ten waiters randomly chosen
will be observed while working during one rush hour, using the
rapid entire body assessment (REBA) worksheet. Between 3-6
most dangerous postures for each waiter, will be taken to fill
the REBA worksheet for each posture which will be scored and
evaluated as a risk factor for pain and disability. Further, theweight
of dishes and food carried by the ten waiters will be examined
by weighing the waiters with the dishes, and their steps will be
counted by using an application in their mobiles.
Biography
Zuha Tarabeih has completed her BA in Nursing from Tel Aviv University,
Israel. She is pursuing her Master’s Degree in Occupational Health focusing
on Ergonomics specialization, and works as an Assistant in Nursing De-
partment at the same university. She is a Nurse in a reputable emergency
medicine center which demands quick thinking and decisive action to pro-
vide care and monitor health conditions, besides to working in a national
call center of its kind, for the treatment of a range of chronic conditions, in
coordination with the client’s primary physician and other community-based
resources. She also volunteers in an Arab feminist movement that struggles
against oppression in all its forms and shapes, which provides psychologi-
cal support and legal advice to women subjected to sexual violence, to raise
awareness among school students on the issue of sexual assaults, and
gender issues
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zuhatara@mail.tau.ac.il zu8370@gmail.comErgonomic risk factors for pain and disability among waiters
Zuha Tarabeih
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Zuha Tarabeih, Arch Med 2018, Volume 10
DOI: 10.21767/1989-5216-C1-002