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KMID : 1134820130420091482
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
2013 Volume.42 No. 9 p.1482 ~ p.1491
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Safety Accidents and Physical Fatigue of School Foodservice Employees
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Cho Yeon-Jung
Kim Hyun-Ah
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the safety accidents and physical fatigues of school foodservice employees. Out of 300 questionnaires distributed from December 1～20, 2011, 276 responded. After excluding 54 incomplete questionnaires, 222 (usage rate: 74%) were examined in the final analysis. First, our results showed that in terms of safety accidents, most received bruises (92.8%), followed by burns (73.0%), cuts and lacerated wounds (69.4%), sprains (47.7%), falls (42.8%), fractures/dislocations (31.5%) and electric shock (2.7%). Second, we found that the average degree of physical fatigue of school foodservice employees was 3.65 based on the 5-point Likert scale. Specifically, pain in the arms and wrist was rated the highest, at 4.18. Third, results showed that the factors affecting physical fatigue were ‘class of school’ (P<0.05), ‘frequency of meal serving per day’ (P<0.05), ‘no. of meals served per day’ (P<0.001), ‘no. of meals per employee’ (P<0.05) and ‘warm-up exercise before starting work’ (P<0.05). This means that foodservice employees serving middle schools, serving meals three times per day, serving more than 1,000 meals per day, and serving more than 111 meals per employee perceive higher levels of physical fatigue. In addition, the physical fatigue of those who perform warm-up exercises before starting work was significantly lower than those who do not perform warm-up exercises before work (P<0.05). In conclusion, the frequently occurring major safety accidents of school foodservice employees were bruises and burns. An increase in workload also leads to the increasing physical fatigue of school foodservice employees. Thus, to lower the physical fatigue of school foodservice employees, school foodservice employees should be encouraged to perform warm-up exercises before staring work and new staffing guidelines for school foodservice employees should be developed.
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KEYWORD
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foodservice employee, safety accidents, physical fatigues, school foodservice
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