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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2020, Volume : 8, Issue : 3
First page : (372) Last page : (377)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8114

Ergonomic Assessment of Women Tailors in Dharwad City

Bhavini B. Patil* and Suma M. Hasalkar
Department of Family Resource Management
College of Rural Home Science, Dharwad University of Agricultural Sciences
Dharwad- 580005, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: bhavini2428@gmail.com
Received: 11.04.2020  |  Revised: 18.05.2020   |  Accepted: 24.05.2020 

 ABSTRACT

Tailoring industry is one of common small scale service sector where women, belonging to the low income groups are employed in large numbers. As per the Tailoring Workers Forum, the members include those who are working as tailors, embroidery workers and self employed tailors. The aim of this paper is to assess tailors work organization, work space, extent of bodily discomfort and ergonomic risk factors experienced by the women working in tailoring units. The data was collected from 30 women tailors by using self structured questionnaire. Data was analyzed by five point likert scale. The results revealed that fifty three per cent have work experience of less than 5 years, 66.7 per cent of them work 7-8 hours in a day, 60 percent of them work along with others. Half of the workers had sufficient space to work, 70 per cent were disagreed that they could maintain good posture at work. All the respondents have experienced pain in lower leg and foot at the end of the day followed by head, forearm, wrist and hand, palm and fingers (96.7 %), neck, shoulder, upper leg (93.33 %), knee (73.33 %) and lower back (63.33 %). Pain relieving techniques adopted by respondents mainly was application of pain relieving balm, absenteeism from work was also a means of pain relieving techniques.

Keywords: Tailor, Discomfort, Work space, Pain relieving technique

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Cite this article: Patil, B.B., & Hasalkar, S.M. (2020). Ergonomic Assessment of Women Tailors in Dharwad City, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 8(3), 372-377. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8114