Ergonomic Risk Assessment of the poultry workers

Poultry workers who spend most of the time in buildings and therefore experience the greatest amount of exposure while performing various activities is at greatest risk. They do the work which is very labor and hand intensive. This results in musculoskeletal disorders related to injuries and illnesses such as back injury, shoulder and arm injuries, disorders of wrist and back lower extremity. This is mainly due to lack of awareness of the basic principles, poor working condition and reluctance to change existing and traditional work methods and tools. Besides this awkward posture, the work place and psychological factors are also important aspects for workers health and safety. Therefore, the study was undertaken to find out the occupational risks faced by the workers engaged in organized poultry farm. For the present study 60 workers from the two poultry farm i.e. Institutional Poultry Farm and NGO Poultry Farm, Nagla were taken. Research design used was descriptive cum experimental. Purposive sampling was used and the data was gathered by interview method.