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Imnainla Walling, K.
- Assessment of Occupational Safety, Hazards and Related Health Problems among Quarry Workers at Work Places in India
Authors
1 Community Health Nursing Department, College of Nursing, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, IN
Source
International Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 5, No 1 (2017), Pagination: 65-68Abstract
Introduction: As quarry site is the dangerous place to work in and quarry workers are more likely to be killed in accidents at any time. Therefore, the investigators tried to assess the occupational safety, hazards and related health problems among the quarry workers at work places in India.
Methodology: A cross sectional survey approach was used. The study was conducted in two quarry work sites in Vellore district. The study population consisted of all 72 quarry workers, who worked in the two quarry sites and the investigators selected the subjects by using convenient sampling method. The check list consisted of demographic data and 30 items, which covers the dimensions of occupational safety, hazards and related health problems among the quarry workers. Data collection was done for a period of two weeks.
Results: It was showed that the majority of the quarry workers 52.8% were between the age group of 18-45 years. Among them, 76.3% of the quarry workers were males and 23.7% of them were females. It was observed that none of them were using any of the personal protective equipments, fist aid boxes were not available and there was no ambulance facility available within 10 kms of diameter. The quarry workers were not covered under any health insurance schemes and were not trained for quarry work such as machine operation, first aid treatment and safety measures. The majority of the workers had frequent respiratory tract infection(88.8%), back ache (65.2%), joint pain (48.8%) and sinusitis (26.3%). Regarding vision and hearing acuity, 12.5% of them had reduced visual acuity and 15.3% of them had negative Weber and Rinne test too.
Conclusion: The study results make an urgent call on authority for job redesigning, scheduling policies, implementation of strict rules and regulations, health protection programmes and insurance schemes for workers who are involved in dangerous work places such as construction sites, quarry, mining and nuclear power plants.
Keywords
Quarry, Occupational Hazards, Occupational Safety, Occupational Problems.
- Global COVID 19 distribution and its association with the selected demographic variables of the countries: A Cross-sectional Infodemiological approach at 10th month of Pandemic
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Nursing, Chettinad College of Nursing, Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, IN
2 Lecturer, Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, IN
3 Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, IN
4 Assistant Professor, Paediatric of Nursing, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, IN
5 Neurology Nurse, Department of Neurology, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, Bedfordshire, GB
6 Ex-Lecturer, Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research (CIHSR), Dimapur, Nagaland, IN
7 Acute Nurse, General Medicine, Mater Hospital, Belfast, GB
Source
International Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 10, No 2 (2022), Pagination: 99-103Abstract
Background and objectives: As we are about to enter a year of COVID 19 pandemic, the investigators attempted to pool the COVID 19 cumulative case numbers of 38th epidemiological week and demographic data of all affected countries and looked for any significant association between them. Methods: A cross-sectional infodemiological approach was selected to collect the cumulative data of 156 affected countries from the dashboards last updated on September 20th, 2020. Results: Countries like India, USA, Brazil and Russia were reported with more than 1 million confirmed cases of COVID 19, USA and Brazil had more than 100 K total reported deaths due to COVID-19, and still in India, USA, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, UK, France, Colombia, Spain, Argentina and Peru had more than 100 K active cases of COVID 19. It is shown that there is a significant association between the total population and the continents of the affected countries and the global COVID 19 distribution including the proportion of tests per 100 population (p<0.05). It is also shown that the majority of European countries conducted >10 tests per 100 population (p<0.05) whereas, <10 tests per 100 population were conducted in African countries (p<0.05). Interpretation and conclusions: Overall, the findings give a cross-sectional glimpse of cumulative global COVID 19 distribution data, which would help the policymakers of the affected countries to evaluate the ongoing COVID 19 preparedness and response measures to come out from the pandemic.Keywords
COVID 19, epidemiology, infodemiology, pandemic, web-based surveillance, worldometer.References
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