The role of work conditions on the functional decline in senior workers in the automotive industry.

IF 2.4 3区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Cognition Technology & Work Pub Date : 2022-05-03 DOI:10.3233/WOR-213638

Bernardes M F Sarah, Ana Assunção, Fujão Carlos, Carnide Filomena

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BACKGROUND The aging of the workforce is changing, but working conditions have not changed at the same exponential growth rate for senior workers. Such a situation can compromise the worker's physical and cognitive capability, reducing the ability to perform work activities. OBJECTIVES This study aims to understand the main functional capacity changes in senior workers in the automotive industry and to determine the contribution of working conditions on the decline of the functional capacity in senior workers. METHODS To achieve the objectives of the study, a set of questionnaires (Sociodemographic Data, COPSOC, Nordic Questionnaire, and Par-Q) and a battery of 4 functional capacity tests were used. RESULTS Work conditions, namely awkward postures, force demands and material manual handling, and age, were statistically associated to the functional decline in workers. Additionally, multiple linear regression showed that height, weight, seniority, and strength have predictive value to the handgrip decline (both positions HG2 and HG5). CONCLUSION These results suggest that workers' handgrip assessment should be considered as a future measure as an indicator of strength ability in the occupational field.

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工作条件在汽车工业高级工人功能衰退中的作用。

背景劳动力的老龄化正在发生变化，但老年工人的工作条件并没有以同样的指数增长率发生变化。这种情况会损害工人的身体和认知能力，降低工作能力。目的了解汽车行业老年工人主要功能能力的变化，确定工作条件对老年工人功能能力下降的贡献。方法为了达到研究目的，采用了一套调查问卷(社会人口统计数据、COPSOC、北欧问卷和Par-Q)和4项功能能力测试。结果工作条件，即笨拙的姿势，力量需求和物质手工处理，以及年龄与工人的功能下降有统计学关系。此外，多元线性回归显示身高、体重、资历和力量对握力下降有预测价值(位置HG2和HG5)。结论今后应考虑将握力评价作为职业领域力量能力的一项指标。

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Cognition Technology & Work ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL-

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6.90

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7.70%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Cognition, Technology & Work focuses on the practical issues of human interaction with technology within the context of work and, in particular, how human cognition affects, and is affected by, work and working conditions. The aim is to publish research that normally resides on the borderline between people, technology, and organisations. Including how people use information technology, how experience and expertise develop through work, and how incidents and accidents are due to the interaction between individual, technical and organisational factors. The target is thus the study of people at work from a cognitive systems engineering and socio-technical systems perspective. The most relevant working contexts of interest to CTW are those where the impact of modern technologies on people at work is particularly important for the users involved as well as for the effects on the environment and plants. Modern society has come to depend on the safe and efficient functioning of a multitude of technological systems as diverse as industrial production, transportation, communication, supply of energy, information and materials, health and finance.