Tactation (Touch) Ergonomic Assessment on Organization BETA Law Firm

Tactation (Touch) Ergonomic Assessment BETA Law Firm
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Tactation (Touch) Ergonomic Assessment BETA Law Firm
In the contemporary work setting, communication gadgets like computers and telephones use compounded with irregular motions causes some workers to experience physical illnesses ranging from touch irritation to fatigue. Some common office-setting-related physical injuries include back pains from poorly configured backrests, tennis elbow from rough desk surfaces, etc. Such harms are often heightened further with repetitive activities that characterize the nature of responsibilities that employees are assigned. Ergonomics as a discipline is aimed to address and expectantly alleviate issues like this by exploring the relationship between workers and the nature of their work.
Organization BETA is a law firm business with more than 15 employees employed as paralegals. With their various positions, related paralegal staff is necessitated to spend a significant part of their time interfacing with telephones as well as computers while placed in their separate cubicle offices. Organization BETA law firm employs the old model cable telephone, which involves users physically picking up handsets and placing them on their ears to communicate. The repeated action of rubbing the handset on the ear sometimes scribes off the skin surface, leaving a wound. This is aggravated by the fact that these phone calls are always prolonged. Furthermore, the chairs employed by BETA are structured not to be adjustable at the backrest (that is, they are structured as one size fits all, with no consideration of individuals who are taller than others or shorter).
The consequence of these functions undertaken by paralegals has seen an increasing number of complaints related to ear touch irritation and back pain, especially from JENA, the new paralegal, concerning the experience of pains in her upper back area and right ear after answering several phone calls from clients.
JENA'S Complaints
JENA's complaint of experiencing ear skin breakage/ injury can be associated with the fact that the repeated action of rubbing the handset on her ear during her daily responsibilities may scrape off the skin surface, leaving a wound that is aggravated by the fact that the phone calls are always lengthy. JENAS complain of experiencing upper back pain can be associated with the fact that the chairs employed by BETA are structured not to be adjustable at the backrest (that is, they are structured as one size fits all, with no consideration of individuals who are taller than others or shorter), JENA being 6' in height, the low set backrest of her chair exerts a lot of pressure on her upper back while she sits.
Cumulative injuries and associated conditions denote a prevalent aspect of the contemporary work environment. For firms like BETA and employees like JENA, this realm is represented by two consequences: cost and pain. Musculoskeletal injury claims now encompass issues that comprise repetitive body part movement injuries – like carpal tunnel syndrome and back injuries, arm or head (Khan et al., 2020). The purpose of this ergonomic assessment...