Estudio para la prevención de riesgos ergonómicos aplicados a los trabajadores del área de recolección de residuos sólidos del Gad Municipal del Cantón Santa Ana

Abstract

The present study is directed at the real situation that crosses the workers of the GAD Municipal of Santa Ana city, for that reason, there is the necessity to correct the possible and future sicknesses or the latent risks which are exposed the workers for the bad manipulation the burden at the moment of doing their labor, it could suffer muscles-skeletal disorders which would difficult their health at the pass of the time, it could suffer of cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacrum sicknesses. The aim of the of the research is to know the levels of the knowledge that have the employs of the GAD related to the ergonomic of the worker, also to research the types of illnesses which are caused as a result of their labors and activities made by the employs of the area of the collection of the solid waste, for that reason there is the concern of the design a muscle-skeletal prevention proposal which support their labor performance. So with this research we intended to study which was the real magnitude of the problem and intervene in a prevention way, so we carrying out the research of the workers knowledge about ergonomics and risks which there are at their job places. The method which we used in the research was the descriptive because this type of the research makes the description of the data and the amount characteristics .Its objective is the acquisition of the accurate and systematic data that can be used in average, frequency and similar statistic calculation, the analysis and presentation of the data based on a direct collection of the reality of the necessary information for the research, taking in mind the purpose of the research. In the research sample we could conclude that, nowadays the workers of the solid waste of the GAD Municipal of the Santa Ana city have muscle-skeletal disorder to comply with their labor, doing forced position to raise heavy burden in different levels. The prevention of the ergonomic risks will let plan and adopt a series of prevention measurements which will avoid labor accidents through training, workshops, and instructive conferences about which is the right way to rise heavy burden, the position that the workers should have when they throw the burden, also future illnesses because of the breach of the stipulated into the job ergonomics.