Hospital workers are under increasing pressure to work more
efficiently with fewer resources and management skills. This
stressful situation can be made worse by physical discomforts
in the workplace. In part for this reason, the healthcare
workers are at high potential risk of physical strain that can
lead to musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). Our objective is to
assess the physical risk factors for musculoskeletal injury
among eighty five hospital workers at ten large hospitals using
Psycho-physiological study. Participants were categorized into
two groups: Government hospital (GH) workers and Private
hospital (PH) workers. Result showed that GH workers were
exposed significantly (p < 0.05) to high physical risk as
compared to PH workers due to the interaction of personal
factors and poor circumstantial factors, which combine to
affect the quality of care and working life