Journal of FARM SCIENCES, Vol 30, No 1 (2017)

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Occupational problems of women bus conductors

ROOPA KURBETT, VEENA S. JADHAV

Abstract


The present study was conducted during 2015-2016 in North-WestKarnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC) Hubballi-Dharwad. The study revealed that majority of the women busconductors giving full justice to the family with the mean score of3.99, the mean score of perceived pain experienced in ankle/feetwas 3.84 and 3.75 and there was highly significant association withmusculoskeletal pain experience at 0.01 level of significance. It canbe concluded that women bus conductors highly suffer from pain indifferent parts of the body mainly in the leg, ankle/feet, knees,thighs, lower back and in the palm /fingers regions, and it makes thewomen conductors hinders their normal work as well as feel to leavethe job.

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