تحسين السلامة والصحة المهنية لمعلمي التعليم الأساسي بمحافظة المنيا على ضوء بعض تدخلات الإرجونوميكس : دراسة ميدانية
Ergonomics is a body of knowledge that aims to design the best practices for matching the integration between characteristics, capabilities and limitations of human with his task, tools /machine and his environment. This is to maximize human productivity, comfort, usability, health, and safety, whilst reducing injury, illness, and the likelihood of errors. Thus, the present study aimed to identify and display the perceptions cited by basic education teachers at Minia governate about prevalence of occupational diseases and risks of teaching profession. The study also stated some ergonomics interventions to enhance safety and occupational health among them. The study used the descriptive approach via the presentation of a theoretical framework to define and tackle ergonomics in terms of its concept and nature, objectives, and aspects, the importance of ergonomics and its relation to occupational safety and health has been presented in addition. To collect data, a questionnaire consisting of 65 items was developed. It was classified into four dimensions, relating to teachers' views of occupational diseases and hazards, physical environment within the schools, the work design within the school, while the fourth dimension covering how teachers estimate the importance of some proposals for disseminating the culture of ergonomics among teachers. The questionnaire was administered to a sample of 345 teachers, and the data collected have been analyzed using the SPSS version (19). The findings indicated that the dimension of occupational diseases and risks was moderately low rated, the physical environment within the schools was moderately high appreciated, the school work was moderately low estimated, and the importance of ergonomics culture was highly appreciated. The study was concluded with a number of suggestions and some proposed procedures to enhance safety and occupational health among teachers. (Published abstract)