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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Family Resource Management × Author: Adiel Chiba N Sangma × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2014 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Ergonomic Assessment of Workers Engaged in Ironing Activity
    (CCSHAU, 2019) Adiel Chiba N Sangma; Sehgal, Binoo
    In India, ironing workers are the second largest occupational group in the garment industry. The ironing work led to the highest prevalence of repetitive traumatic and musculoskeletal disorders. WMSDs are found to be major occupational health problems among the ironing workers while performing physical work for a prolonged time period. The present study was conducted on the workers engaged in ironing activity to study their work profile and workplace conditions and to conduct the ergonomic assessment of workers engaged in ironing activity. The present study was conducted in two phases. In phase I, work profile and workplace conditions of the workers engaged in ironing activity was studied among the hundred workers of Haryana State, out of which 60 respondents belonged to Hisar city and 40 respondents belonged to Bhiwani. Out of 100 male respondents from Hisar and Bhiwani, 68 per cent of the respondents were indoor ironing workers and 32 per cent were outdoor ironing workers. Majority of the workers (68%) had a total experience of ironing work of 6-10 years. 84 percent of the respondents worked for 6-9 hours per day and majority i.e. 38 per cent of the respondents took total rest period of 1.5 hours. Maximum number of respondents (74%) ironed average 150 numbers of clothes per day. Out of 68 indoor ironing workers, 32 ironing workers and cent per cent of the outdoor ironing workers had the average income of Rs.5000-10,000 per month. In phase II, ergonomic assessment of workers was conducted on 10 ironing workers, out of which 5 were indoor workers and 5 were outdoor workers. The experiment was conducted during the month of June. The posture adopted by the indoor and outdoor ironing workers was standing with hand moving and forward bending. REBA, RULA and OWAS indicated that investigation, corrective measures and implementation of change is required. The average RPE score was observed to be 3.3 which indicated that the exertion of ironing workers was heavy and the average VAD score was found to be 7.8 which indicated that the ironing workers felt highly discomfortable. Regarding the MSDs felt by the indoor and outdoor ironing workers, it was severely felt in lower back (WMS 4.3) and lower arms (WMS 4.1). Musculoskeletal discomfort was moderately felt in shoulder (WMS 3.9), neck and ankle/feet (WMS 3.7), upper arms (WMS 3.6), upper back (WMS 3.1), knee (WMS 3.0) and calf (WMS 2.6), palm (WMS 2.4) and thigh region (WMS 2.2) of the body had mild musculoskeletal discomfort in the workers.