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Volume 5, Issue 3 (Suppl) Occup Med Health Aff, an open access journal
ISSN:2329-6879 Occupational Health-2017
September 13-14, 2017
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September 13-14, 2017 | Dallas, USA
Occupational Health & Safety
6th International Conference and Exhibition on
Exploring factors related to acute and chronic fatigue on production and packaging workers of
manufacturing company
Amalia Oktaviana and Doni Hikmat Ramdhan
University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Statement of the Problem: In the modern era, company tends to sacrifice their worker’s health aspect to pursue higher productivity
by implementing longer work hours and shift works which may lead to fatigue. Research has identified multiple factors contributing
to occupational fatigue; however, to differentiate between the acute and chronic fatigue yet is still lacking. The usual mechanism of
acute fatigue developed into chronic fatigue properties that are not adaptive still difficult to understand fully. This research aims
to study the factors related to acute and chronic fatigue in production and packaging workers of Manufacturing Company X. The
studied variables in this research is comprised into individual factors such as age, time to sleep, commuting time, and job factors such
as duration, shift work, location of work, and overtime.
Methodology &Theoretical Orientation: The Occupational Fatigue Exhaustion Recovery (OFER) scale is used to measure acute and
chronic fatigue among 78 workers. This research is a descriptive analytic study using cross sectional study design.
Findings: The results showed that the sleep time and commuting time has a significant effect on acute fatigue in workers, while the
sleep time and duration of the work has a significant impact on chronic fatigue in workers. Workers who experience high level of
acute fatigue and chronic fatigue are 2.6%. Also, moderate recovery rate of 61.5% and a high recovery rate is approximately 34.6%.
Conclusion & Significance: Not all job and individual factors are associated with acute and chronic fatigue. In addition, the number
of high chronic fatigue is not high because recovery can be achieved well.
Biography
Amalia Oktaviana is currently pursuing her degree in Master of Science in Occupational Health, Safety, and Environment, University of Birmingham. Her other
research is about fatigue among shift worker nurses.
Amalia Oktaviana et al., Occup Med Health Aff 2017, 5:3 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2329-6879-C1-034