Pantnagar Journal of Research

Abstract

Agri enterprises have predominance of health risk factors which affects to the workers health and overall wellbeing. The health problems of workers in agri enterprises increased due to incessant long working hours and uncomfortable work posture. The most common health problems experienced by workers in agri enterprises are job strain and musculoskeletal discomforts. Thus, present investigation was undertaken with the objective to assess the job strain and muscle fatigue among the workers engaged in different activities of small scale unorganized agri enterprises. Two analysis tools i.e., Job Strain Index and Rodgers Muscle Fatigue were used to find out the exposure of critical risks among the workers in different agri enterprises. The results revealed that among all the selected agri enterprise activities, highest job strain was found for the workers working in grain packaging activities particularly in loading and lifting of grains packets (JSI score 81 for each hand.) Weaving enterprise, vegetable cutting and grain packaging activities were associated with very high muscle fatigue as analyzed by the Rodgers overall priority matrix. The prevalence of job strain and muscle fatigue was found at hazardous level in workers engaged in small scale unorganized agri enterprises.