Evaluación de factores de riesgo ergonómico, al personal de visita médica de la división nutricional de la ciudad de quito, de una empresa farmacéutica y propuesta de un plan de acción

Abstract

Objectives: Evaluate the level of ergonomic risk to which the Medical Visit personnel of the Nutritional Division of a Pharmaceutical Company (EDE), of the city of Quito, are exposed, through the application of qualified methodology and establish a proposal for control measures. Method: Cross-sectional and descriptive study, executed in a Multinational Pharmaceutical Company with a presence in Ecuador, to a population of N = 13 Medical Visitors during the months of November, December 2021 and January 2022. The evaluation methods to be used will be: REBA (Rapid Entire Body Assessment); ROSA (Rapid Office Strain Assessment - Rapid Assessment of Effort in Offices); NIOSH method and additionally information from the 2021 occupational periodic exams will be used. Results: Female sex predominates (54%), 44 years and older (38%), Higher educational level (62%), work seniority between 6 months to 2 years (54%), BMI = Overweight with 62% and marital status with 54%. Preponderant symptomatology by sex in 2021 is: back (71% in women); followed by neck (43% in women%) and shoulder (14% in women). The highest level of risk reported are forced positions, evaluated with REBA and a medium risk level, requiring corrective actions. Conclusions: The most frequent musculoskeletal disorder by sex in the studied population is back pain in females and there is a medium risk level in relation to forced postures.