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Volume 13 Issue 5 (May) 2024

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An innovative tool for creating trailblazing office ergonomics awareness and skills training amongst office employees for safer use of computers
Dr. Kishore Madhwani, Dr. Kiran Makwana, Dr. Debdutta Banerjee, Jitendra Kumar Singh

Background: Office ergonomics is a highly neglected discipline that has the potential to enhance productivity, boost employee morale and significantly reduce musculoskeletal disorders globally. With the alarming increase in use of smaller laptops & hand held devices for office work, globally there is a felt need to spread awareness on office ergonomics. During pandemic employees working with computers suffered from musculoskeletal disorders as work from home was the new normal.The challenge is in educating maximum employees in shortest time on office ergonomics. Objective: The primary objective of this study was to train office employees on safe work postures, who then train their colleagues (TTT: Train the Trainer) including new recruits thereby promoting organization culture of embarking an ergonomics lifestyle resulting in a win- win situation. Methodology: The present study was conducted from January 2022 to December 2023 (based on my earlier pubmed indexed research of IJOEM) by different methods. The study was conducted using three types of training i.e. a) online training across India during pandemic (n=230), b) 45 minute theatre style training on a mock workstation with a power point projection at office (n=136) and c) 10 to 15 minute on-site live demonstrations on office floors (Do it with me training on existing office workstations. n=308) thus total n=674. Result: Responses received from participants on online, theatre style and onsite trainings on different variables showed that overall participants of onsite live demonstration rated variables of training better than participant of online and theatre style training. The findings were statistically significant. Responses received from participants about rating of different training, it was seen that overall 98% participants of onsite live demonstrations rated more 9/10 and above (among them 88% rated it 10/10). Conclusion: From the result, it is evident that onsite live demonstration was found superior in providing comprehensive training, knowledge enlargement, skills enrichment, easily replicable and influenced behavior modification.

 
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