@mastersthesis{10336/10628,
year = {2015},
url = {http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/10628},
abstract = {Abstract
INTRODUCTION: People engaged in the oil palm fruit harvesting during the development of your work, they usually adopt different postures and repetitive movements with cargo, which these alter according to the place and nature characteristic’s performed work
Cutting work’s fruit, pruning of each one plants or the collection and   product’s gathering can lead to disorders muscular or skeletal disorders. United States, the National Institute for safety and occupational health (NIOSH) specifies that musculoskeletal disorders (MSDS) involve nerves, tendons, muscles and supporting structures. Therefore it is convenient to identify signs and symptoms and the physical burden of this working population.
These musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) as referred to in the European Agency for safety and health at work (EU-OSHA), are a serious problem. For the worker cause personal pain and loss of income, for employers reduce operational efficiency and for the country to increase the costs of social security.
Final report, it`s Ramirez Vargas highlights the presence of Colombia as a main producer with 38% palm oil production in Latin America. cursory calculation, determines that this trade is more than 1950 gatherers of fruit in the region of the META, Department in Eastern showing higher growth with an acreage the year 2011 163.447 hectares and an average of 16 workers per 100 hectares
METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study in which 204 workers on symptoms and existing ergonomic risk factors in the workplace and biomechanical evaluation in workers at a palm oil plantation in the department of Meta 2015 were identified.
RESULTS: The total of growers were men and their median age is 36.4 years old. Average permanence in the workplace is 19.1 months and an average of 7 years of experience in the profession in different centers.
31.9% of the surveyed workers reported discomfort and 30.9% pain in the low back or lumbar region, while the biomechanical evaluation in aspects concerning the physical burden of workers with the REBA method, throw levels high risk in 59.1% of the population and the risk in 43.1%.
CONCLUSIONS: The work grower Involve postural loads in all areas evaluated by the REBA methodology; either positions or movements, load handling, strength of greater or lesser magnitude and grip; finding that the arms have a greater commitment in terms of physical demand, influenced by the height of the palm, which adversely affects MSDs for submitting trunk level in lumbar and dorsal
Participatory ergonomics can become a business skill, stimulate workers forming part of the union between corporate ergonomic exercise and the participation of the group of people involved, they will make together to find specific solutions focused on the prevention of MSDs generated by the work environment, under the premise of empowerment of the population to control ending the measures agreed in your real application},
keywords = {desordenes músculo esqueléticos},
keywords = {prevalencia},
keywords = {ergonomía},
keywords = {factores de riesgo},
keywords = {signos y síntomas},
keywords = {agricultura},
title = {Trastornos musculo-esqueléticos y la relación con la carga postural asociada a la labor de cosechero de palma aceitera en una plantación  del Meta, Colombia 2015},
publisher = {Universidad del Rosario},
keywords = {Ergonomics},
keywords = {Prevalence},
keywords = {Musculoskeletal Disorders},
keywords = {Occupational Health},
keywords = {Risk Factors},
keywords = {Agriculture},
}