Evaluation of Workers’ Workload at Neyshabur Ceramic and Tile Factory 2017

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1 ‎ *Lecturer, Department of Occupational Health Engineering, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran.

2 Bs Student, Department of Occupational Health Engineering, Islamic Azad University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran.

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Background and Aims: Workload can be defined as the worker's required capacity to meet a special level of performance to do a task. Workload is increasing by factors such as type of job, repetition of task, intensity, and duration and psychological factors of the work. This study aimed to evaluate workers’ workload at Ceramic Tile factory.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was conducted on 120 workers of Neyshabur ceramic and tile factory in. NASA-TLX standard questionnaires was respectively used. Then, the obtained data was analyzed using SPSS-20 software and descriptive statistics and Pearson-Spearman correlation test.
Results: Results of NASA-TLX revealed that performance, frustration and physical demands showed respectively high mean scores of 87,76 and 75 and the least score was 51. Therewere significant correlations between marriage, level of education, work experience and the hours of work per week with mean mental workload score.
Conclusion: It was revealed that workload was high. This result was also confirmed by observational evaluation. Based on our results, workload management programs should be focused on omitting or reducing improper working workplace.

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