Improving healthy work culture measures using participatory ergonomic interventions

Purpose of the article: The productivity outcomes from the proper implementation of participatory ergonomic interventions in the industrial developing countries (IDCs) are important to have management support. However, the role of awareness promotion in engaged groups of intervention has been overlooked. This paper, explains the health effects of some ergonomic interventions including nutrition awareness, training, and workstation redesign on the labor productivity indices of an industry using participatory ergonomics. Material and methods: The study design was a semi-experimental study. After the field study, the proper model of participatory ergonomic was presented to implement the interventions. The International Labour Organization (ILO) checkpoint, Quick Exposure Check (QEC) checklist, Nordic questionnaire were applied to assess ergonomic risk factors. Labor productivity was measured using some indicators of health and production. Statistical tests including paired sample T-test were done to data analysis using SPSS version 22.0. Results and Conclusion: The ergonomic interventions with focus on awareness promotion was resulted in the positive outcomes (P-value <0.05) including; decrease of blood pressure (equally 3.1%), improvement in optimum monthly performance of labors, better QEC number, and also time saving about 18.93% in doing tasks. Awareness promotion and productivity outcomes were found to be important in management commitment and support to persuade participatory ergonomic interventions.