5. CONCLUSION
Based on the findings, there are significant differences among students in three different ages.
The 13 year old students group faced the highest WMSD risk while using the school workshop.
School furniture and workstations should suit the students’ body sizes and anthropometric body
dimensions [3, 5, 11, 12]. A study by Murphy et al [13] indicated that school furniture
characteristics have the highest prevalence of relationship to pain among schoolchildren.
In order to improve working posture and reduce factors that are associated with back pain,
participatory ergonomic programs should be introduced in schools in terms of posture training or
furniture modification. Considering children today are adults of tomorrow, this makes ergonomic
education essential in their early stage of life to develop a good posture habit and maintain their
physical health [7, 8].
Further research on the ergonomics potential of students’ working postures will investigate the
effects of ergonomics interventions of ergonomically designed workstation to decrease the MSD
and improve their work performance. In order to meet these positive results, the measures which
are reviewed in this paper can be applied to evaluate ergonomics conditions of the workstation.