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In the Philippines, fishing industry is one of the most important sectors, considering it as one of the top fishing producing countries. In fish ports, workers are involved in carrying different weights of loads that may lead to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs). This study aims to establish a basis for WMSDs on porters in fish ports and intends to examine the prevalence, severity, and significant factors that may cause their existence. The body regions with high prevalence of self-reported symptoms were the ankle/feet, hips/buttocks, and shoulder body regions. The Binary Logistic Regression models showed that there is a relationship between prevalence of symptoms of WMSDs and the significant factors. The factors found to be significant were ‘cigarette smoking’, ‘number of banyeras carried’, ‘assistance from coworkers’, ‘weight of load’, ‘workspace’, and ‘conflicts at work’. Based on the results of the study, recommendations were developed to reduce the prevalence of WMSDs among the porters.
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The authors would like to acknowledge Mrs. Ellen Ang of Philippine Fisheries Development Authority and Mr. Proculo Alciso Jr. of Navotas Fish Port Complex. Special thanks to the families of the authors for their contribution in the data collection.
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Asuncion, A., de Guzman, F.G., Luto, F.M., Sedilla, K. (2019). Manual Handling in Fish Port: An Ergonomic Assessment on the Porters “Kargadors” in Navotas Fishing Port Complex. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics & Human Factors. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 789. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94484-5_12
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