Manual workers

Ebook "Procedures to investigate foodborne illness (Sixth edition)" is designed to guide public health personnel or teams in any country that investigates reports of alleged foodborne illnesses. The manual is based on epidemiologic principles and investigative techniques that have been found effective in determining causal factors of disease incidence. The guidelines are presented in the sequence usually followed during investigations and are organized so that an investigator can easily find the information needed in any phase of an investigation.

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Ebook "Hoisting and rigging: Safety manual" is intended as a working guide for training workers and supervisors in the fundamentals of safe rigging and hoisting. The information covers not only ropes and knots but hoisting equipment from cranes to chainfalls and rigging hardware from rope clips to spreader beams. Equally important is the attention paid at every point to correct procedures for inspection, maintenance, and operation.

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Industry 4.0 which started off as Germany’s brainchild is expected to minimize the labor cost advantages of traditional low-cost locations, making it attractive for manufacturers to bring previously offshored jobs back home. The revolution will require more ‘talented’ workers who can adapt to technology rather than traditional ‘skilled’ workers. Manual workers will face many disadvantages.

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In this article, we present a traditional manual collection and thematic analysis of data (2631 posts across 60 different threads, approximately 300,000 words) from forums where sex workers and men who pay for sex discuss matters relating to prostitution.

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This revolution is expected to bring great benefits to human life. However, for the nation based mainly on resource extraction and cheap labor such as Vietnam, its impact at the early stage is evaluated to be negative. Manual labor in textile, assembly industry and traditional agriculture will be affected greatly.

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The world production of vegetables, India is the second largest producer next to china. In India, there is no mechanization available for onion transplanting. The transplanting of onion seedlings mainly depends on farm workers. So, manually operated two row paper pot onion transplanter was developed. In agricultural mechanization, the major role of ergonomics is to increase the efficiency of the operation. The study was conducted to evaluate the manually operated two row paper pot onion transplanter and compared with conventional method of transplanting.

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Low back pain (LBP) is a common and costly problem throughout the United States. To achieve a greater understanding of the occupational risk factors, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) funded a low back health effects consortium, which performed several surveillance studies throughout the United States.

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The impact of work-related musculoskeletal symptoms (WMSS) permeates various occupations. Objective: To compare WMSS and associated risk factors among domestic gas workers (DGWs) and staff of Works Department (SWD) in Enugu.

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In Indian agricultural farming, numerous drudgery prone activities are involved. Rice uprooting and transplanting are the most common example of these kinds of drudgery prone activities. Indian farmers are highly associated with these tasks and they perform a sequential work through manual efforts. In some areas of India, the improved method of uprooting and transplanting are being used but due to lack of awareness and information manual performance of these activities are much common.

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This investigation was conducted with an aim to study the work environment of the workers engaged in ironing clothes and to assess the postural discomfort while performing the activity. For the data collection 20 respondents were selected purposively in the age group of 30-50 years who were actively involved in ironing work. A pre-tested interview schedule was used to study the personal profile, job profile and their work environment. The results revealed that maximum number of respondents (65.00%) worked 10-12 hours per day.

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Weed is a crop which is grown along with the main crop and competes for sunlight, food, water and space. Weeding is very tedious operation as compared to all other agriculture operations. Most parts of the country weeding operation is being done by manual methods and also by mechanical methods. Drudgery involved in weeding operation increases stress on worker causing increase in heart rate and oxygen consumption. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the agronomical evaluation of power weeder. The heart rate and oxygen consumption rate of operator was varied from 131.0 to 145.

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A review of manually operated planting machines in India is presented. The present study show in general that the suitability of manually operated planting machines for different seed and land holdings. Farm mechanization is an important element of agriculture. Mechanization of agriculture is an essential input in modern agriculture. Mechanization also helps in improving utilization efficiency of other inputs, safety, and comfort of the agricultural worker, improvement in the quality and value addition of the produce.

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Mechanized agriculture is the process of using agriculture machinery to mechanize the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farm worker’s productivity. The use of mechanized power for agriculture purpose reduces not just the hardship faced by the farmers under traditional manual practices but also speeds up agricultural processes, saves cost and enhances agricultural productivity. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the performance of different types of reaper binder operational for harvesting of wheat in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh.

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Weed management in crops through hand weeding is facing a tough challenge in many developing countries like India where workers are migrating from rural to urban areas in search of better job and lifestyle opportunities. Manual weeding option is facing acute shortage of labour. The present investigation was therefore carried out to study the effect of different levels of nitrogen and weed management practices on weed parameters of gaillardia (Gaillardia pulchella Foug.) under Hyderabad conditions and it was carried out during the year 2018-2019 at Floricultural Research Station.

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Health, safety and environment: A series of trade union education manuals for agricultural workers to maintain close relations with the trade union movement throughout the various countries of the world, to provide it with the support of the international labour office in endeavours to strengthen it, enhance its influence and its activities in the defence and promotion of the interests and rights of workers.

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You can do things to prevent or minimise MSDs as they affect large numbers of people across most industries and occupations and have the potential to ruin people's lives. MSDs also impose heavy costs on employers. CASE STUDY: In one year a firm lost 373 working days because of manual handling injuries. This cost about £24 000 in wages paid to absent workers. There were also overtime payments and other costs. The introduction of handling aids, manual handling training, and a rehabilitation program reduced days lost to 74 and wage costs to about £5000....

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Ratites are not covered by the poultry PPPS. Biosecurity requirements in that sector are largely mandated by the requirements of its export markets. The egg industry has a Code of Practice for Biosecurity (Grimes and Jackson, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, 2001), which is currently the industry standard with respect to biosecurity. This standard was used to develop the third party auditable EggCorp Assured™ program (ECA), which also includes food safety, environmental and welfare operating practices.

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These educational requirements reflect a need for highly skilled workers who can perform complex, ever-changing tasks. Economists have classified the intensity of five types of tasks across occupations using the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT).

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For people like Cindy, who have struggled with no credit, illness, and challenging life situations, a car can make the difference between creating a better life and being stuck in a bad situation. As Cindy said in the documentary, “That car did it for me. The car was the final piece of the puzzle that I needed to complete my goals, which was getting into the apprenticeship and getting a better job and sup- porting my kids. I went to school, tried out for the Iron Workers and was accepted and…just went from there. But I couldn’t have done any of that without...

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Health in its broadest sense includes physical and mental health. Even though many health workers agree with this broad conception of health, in reality the focus is mainly on physical health. There are many reasons for this. Probably the most important reason is that health workers do not understand much about mental health and are therefore less comfortable dealing with mental health problems. However, in recent years there has been growing awareness about various types of mental illnesses. Many health workers have become more interested in dealing with these problems.

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