SEMESTER-V CHILD HEALTH NURSING-UNIT-1-INTRODUCTION.pdf
OHS 405 PRESENTATION 1.pptx
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2. THESIS QUESTIONS
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• What are the Cause of Manual
Handling Injuries?
2
• What are the Aggravating Factors of
Manual Handling?
3
• What is Stress Factor?
3. MANUAL HANDLING
Is any action of transporting of a load by
individually or group of workers from point A to
point B.
Is any activity that demands the use of:
Force
Physical Strength
Common Sense
8. In most severe
Causes…Male tends
to develop a
Biologically
disorders or health
and reproductive
disease such as
“Elephantiasis”
9. Manual Handling in
Every Women doesn’t
only mean Back
Strain – It can cause
other Reproductive
disorders such as
“Miscarriage”
Sciatica:
pain affecting the back,
hip, and outer side of the
leg, caused by
compression of a spinal
nerve root in the lower
back, often owing to
degeneration of an
intervertebral disk.
10. Gross overloading of Spines.
Lifting with bent back or with objects held well
out or to one side of the body.
Loss of balance while lifting motion.
Engage in a twisting lifting motion.
Inadequate grips – heavy, slippery, sharp etc.
objects.
11. Unstable and in appropriate foot-wears.
Slippery floors, uneven or littered floors.
Restricted room to manoeuvre.
Uncoordinated (unbalance or clumsy) team
lifting.
Person unfit to lift.
12. Stress factor refers to one’s
working environment, layout,
organizational structure, the
nature of task performed at which
pause stressful working
atmosphere.
E.g.: Sitting in a poorly design
chairs will resulting in back-
strain, injuries and even stressful
postures while performing either
visual or a manipulated task –
persistent back pain.
13. Whole
Body
Vibration
Women involved in MH tends to have
higher frequency and severity of LBP than
their reference population. Men involved
in MH or exposed to WBV had higher
frequency of painful episodes than their
reference population.
