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Physical Stessors and the Human Body - page 4
Keywords: Human Body Physical Stessors Health Human Body
By JN on 02/06/2009
Level: Bachelor Honours Degree (BA, BEng, BSc etc)
Page Number: 4 of 5 pages: 1 2 3 4 5be part of schemes such as the preventative programme and the health surveillance programme in workplaces. The preventative programme looks at training and information for people as well as vibration control and maintaining blood circulation. The health surveillance programme covers aspects such as appropriate supervision for staff in workplaces, access to medical professionals and protocol for complaints of health problems (Health and Safety executive, 1994).
A third physical stressor to the human body could be manual handling. The actions leading to manual handling creating a stress on the body depends on the weight of the load, the posture of the body during handling, the time and distance the object is to be moved and the ease of which the object can be held. Manual handling mainly causes stress to the body through the physical strain involved in the lifting. Injury could occur at any time. Work positions that commonly cause injury associated with manual handling are stooping (bending the back more than twenty degrees), working above shoulder level, a twisted head (head bent at an angle of more than twenty degrees) and kneeling or working with bent knees whilst lifting heavy or awkward loads (Health and Safety Executive, 1992).
Manual handling can do damage to the body in the form of sprains, strains, bruising, fractures and breakages. A sprain is an injury to a joint caused by a stretch or twist; it stretches or tears the ligament or the soft joint tissue around a joint, for example in the neck or shoulder. A strain is a tear or pull to a muscle, tendon or surrounding tissue. Bruising a discolouration of the skin caused by a leakage of blood and other substances from the vein in the underlying tissue. Also fractures, breaks in the bone, of which there are many types and even broken bones. Posture damage, including back problems can also result (http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/sprainss trains/a/sprain.htm, 2007).
Sprain and strain treatment comes in the form of RICE – rest, ice, compression and elevation. Ice should be applied for the first forty-eight hours at regular intervals, not exceeding twenty minutes at a time. If it hasn’t eased within the forty-eight hours, advice from a doctor or health professional should be sought. At the time of having a sprain or strain the patient must rest. Ice must be used in the same way for bruising and this should go down over a few days changing
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