Programa de ginástica laboral: efeitos em trabalhadores novatos e experientes numa indústria de calçados

Abstract

In an attempt to remain active in a highly competitive market, professional associations are increasingly investing in the automation of their facilities, in order to achieve high levels of productivity and satisfy the needs of their customers. When this happens, there is a reduced reduction in the number of workers, which intensifies the performance of tasks and consequently makes the environment conducive to the emergence of occupational diseases. While novice workers have difficulties in adapting to the job, experienced workers perform their activities skillfully, however, both levels of experience are subject to trigger problems capable of affecting physical and cognitive aspects. In order to mitigate these negative impacts, companies are investing in Labor Gymnastics Programs, to provide an improvement in the quality of life and well-being of their employees. Thus, the objective of this work is to analyze the psychophysiological and social effects that a Labor Gymnastics Program can provide to novice and experienced workers in a footwear industry. To carry out the study, workers were classified according to the frequency of carrying out physical activities (who participated 0,2,4 and 5 days a week) for a period of twelve months. Once this was done, the participants were interviewed to identify the benefits captured through the variables used in the study: relief of musculoskeletal pain, improvement of physical and psychological well-being, difficulty in performing tasks, willingness to work and the interpersonal relationship between co-workers. After data collection, the correlation between the dependent variable (frequency of physical activity) and the independent variables (study variables) was analyzed through the construction of ordinal logistic regression models for each level of experience. The results obtained allowed us to observe that: The greater the frequency of physical activity, there is a relief of musculoskeletal pain (OR = 3,300) and an improvement in psychophysiological well-being (OR = 7,875) for the experienced; and for newbies, the higher the frequency of physical activity, there is a better relationship between employees and their co-workers (OR = 1,977). Thus, it is possible to conclude that the implementation of the labor gymnastics program is capable of providing positive impacts for workers, even if in a different way for the levels of experience of the study.