Some antropometric features on women forest nursery workers and evaluation of their working positions

This study was conducted as a research area on total of 175 women forest nursery workers who works actively all year round in Of, Tirebolu and Ordu forest nursery. The study was conducted in three main steps as survey application, evaluation of antropometric features and evaluation of their working position. In the first step, a qestionnaine consisting of 54 questions was applied in face to face interview method to define their demographic features, habits, health problems and working conditions. In the second step, with 35 antropometrics size body weight of each worker was measured in standing and sitting positions and their body mass index values were calculated ın the last step, the woring position of workers in 10 main nursery work was determined in five different ergonomic risk assessment merhod and risk scores were gathered by using ErgoFellow software program. The data determined under study was evaluated with SPSS 13.0 software package. It was found that there is a significant relationship between the work and the health problems and the pain felt by the women workers. According to BMI Body Mass Indexs) obtained from antropometric data, %42,29 of the women workers were found fat. The level of risk in the most of the working positions in 10 main nursey field was found high. Key Word: Forest nursery workers, Risk assessment merhods, Antropometric, working position, Eastern black sea region