OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RISK AMONG VEHICLE MAINTENANCE WORKERS: PILOT STUDY IN MALAYSIA

Abstract

The nature of work for vehicle maintenance worker lies mostly on awkward working posture and the use of non- ergonomic tools as well as environmental factors related. Primary headaches take most 90% of all the headache forms. This highly occurrence disease categorized as high risk in this type of working agepopulation and give significant impact in Malaysia. The aim of this paper is to provide useful information regarding workers suffering headache to the occupational management in workplace. The data was collected using questionnaire. This disease carries economic cost calculating loss of working days due to major headache and eventually loss in labor productivity. In an occupational setting for vehicle maintenance workers circumstances are known to cause the on-set of attacks who by the nature of work, working in not ergonomic posture. Others factor such as chemical exposure in workplace can make the headache worst. The study was conduct at 20 automotive workshop and involve 150 participants. The result shown that 80% of the workers suffer headache in workplace. Work stress related with psychosocial problem shown that there was direct relationship between factor of duration of work and work assignments (p<0.05).