Authors : Tulika Khare & Aditi Vats
Page Nos : 149-160
Description :
Poultry workers, who spend most of the time in buildings therefore, experience the greatest amount of exposure are at greatest risk. They perform different activities manually and mechanically. Besides this, poultry industry has not only been labor intensive but also a hand intensive industry. Poultry work involves considerable degree of manual efforts which are associated with body movements. If such movements are minimized by adopting motion economy and proper working postures, it would reduce fatigue to a considerable extent. While attempting such motion economy, one can take resource to biomechanical approaches and identify the wasteful movement or awkward body postures. If these are avoided through improvement in the work place layout, one can quantitatively evaluate the advantages gained by using appropriate physiological or psychological indicators. Therefore, the study was undertaken to find out the occupational stress faced by the workers engaged in organized poultry farm. For the present study 60 workers from the two poultry farm i.e. Instructional poultry farm and NGO poultry farm , Nagla were taken. Descriptive research design was used. Purposive sampling was used and the data was gathered by interview method. The data showed that existing condition of poultry farm worker were not satisfactory regarding the work environment. Besides this, a number of occupational stress were involved which can result in health hazards.
