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“Working Late”...
Building healthy construction workers
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Who are we?
Elaine Yolande Williams
Research Associate, Loughborough Design School
Diane Gyi
Reader in Health Ergonomics and Design,Loughborough Design School
Roger Haslam
Professor of Ergonomics, Loughborough Design School
Alistair Gibb
Professor of Construction Engineering Management,
Department of Civil and Building Engineering
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Who sponsors the research?
The “Working Late” project is supported by the
New Dynamics of Ageing programme.
This project is funded by all five UK Research councils;
AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC & MRC
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What is Working Late: Ageing productively
through design?
Increasing age of the UK workforce presents major challenges By 2020, a third of the workforce will be aged over 50
Important to maintain health and quality of working life People’s ability to stay in work is affected by their health: increased
physical illness as people get older
Need to promote a healthy working environment Some of the health effects from work can take years to surface, therefore
employees of all ages should be given attention
See Paper for Literature Review
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What is Working Late: Ageing productively
through design?
This “Working Late” project investigates the role of good design and
ergonomics in healthy working.
The research will be used to create an online resource called OWL (Organiser
for “Working Late” ) which will facilitate healthy working through better moreintelligent workplace design.
“Working Late” is NOT about ‘over time’ or ‘long working hours’
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“Working Late” through ‘design’
non-stigmatising
preventative healthcare
individual choice & control
flexible
Design
sustainable
accessible and intuitive
desirablefun intelligent
encourages good habits
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“Working Late” through ‘OWL’
non-stigmatising
preventative healthcare
individual choice & control
flexible
sustainable
accessible and intuitive
desirablefun intelligent
encourages good habits
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What is OWL?
The OWL resource will support line managers in facilitating
healthy ageing at work through design.
It will be made up of education & training tools Generic tool kit – tool box talks,
discussion tools
Personal Stories - design examples,
video stories
OWL will empower and support worker involvement in designdecision making processes especially when “Working Late” .
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Phase Research activities Progress
1
(Dec 2009) Questionnaire survey of workers.
Triangulation interviews .
21 participated – 719 questionnaires after ‘data
cleaning’.
Triangulation interviews with 5 organisations (26workers).
Data analysis complete – discussion document
presented to 5 collaborating organisations.
Decisions made regarding focus of Phase 2.
2 In-depth ‘rich’ data collection (interviews,
observations , objective measures).
Co-develop solutions to workplace design
problems.
Data collection complete with 4 organisations.
Co-designing focus groups completed with 2
organisations. Complete in Jan 2012.
3 Create a tool/resource (Organiser for Working
Late - OWL)
Development and synthesis of OWL resource –
images, audio, video.
4 Evaluation and refinement of OWL. ALL organisations keen to be involved.
5
(Nov 2012)
Data analysis and report writing.
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Introduction
Understanding worker requirements
Workplace environments and equipment
Construction company
Environment constantly changes
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Method
Collaboration: Construction company New Build – Domestic
Gaining participation
Site visits and presentations to management andteam leaders
Site tour & meeting employees
Questionnaire survey Open to all employees 10 minutes to complete Online and paper
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Questionnaire survey
Other
Health &
Social Work
Transport
Public
Sector e.g.
Education,
health
Construction
Computing
& IT
Manufacturing
Energy &
Utilities
Retail &
Hospitality
Banking &
Financial
Questionnaire survey of UK
workers across different
sectors
on-line/paper based
Disproportionate sampling blue-collar, older workers
Follow-up in-depth interviews n=6 at this company
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Results: Questionnaire Survey
25 surveys returned – all paper based Response rate of ~71% of total from surveyed site
Responses removed from participants who did not indicate Any results for NMQ (Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire)
Year of birth
Gender
83% (n=20) of respondents were aged ≤49 years and 17% (n=4) aged ≥50
years
100% male, 0% female
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Work Ability
High WAI ‘best to current’ scores
High WAI physical & WAI mental ability scores High scores indicate that respondents feel they have
good work ability and are able to perform work tasks
n Mean (SD) Range
WAI ‘best to current’
(0=unable to work – 10 =work at best ability)
24 8.9 (1.6) 5 – 10
WAI in respect to physical demands of job(1=very good – 5=poor)
24 1.6 (0.7) 1 – 4
WAI in respect to mental demands of job
(1=very good – 5=poor)
24 1.7 (0.7) 1 – 3
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Results: NMQ
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Neck Shoulders Elbows Wrists andhands
Middle of back Lower back Hips, thighsand buttocks
Knees Ankles or feet
F r e q u e n c y ( % )
Body Area
Period (12 months) Point (7 days) Severity Attributing symptoms to work tasks
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Age and Work statements
Statement
Statistical
difference
Positive
agreement
I feel more tired now due to my job then I did when I was younger Yes (0.001) ≥50
Only one of the 13 statements showed that there was a statistically significant difference ( p≤0.05) inthe responses from both groups, based upon two-tailed independent samples t-test.
Work related statements according to age group; ≤49 and ≥50. Statistically significant ( p≤0.05)
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Conclusion
MSDs were experienced by construction workers.
Observations helped identify that some MSDs could be attributed
to specific work tasks.
Worker experiences can inform healthy design-decision making.
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Construction Workers: Joiners
Focus on hand-tool design and use on construction sites
Understanding their views on ageing and staying fit and healthy
in their job ( prompts: obstacles, advice to others, top tips…).
Encourage thinking about staying healthy through ‘design’ in
their job (prompts: ‘design’ solutions - procedure, equipment,
training etc…)
To collate solutions to workplace design ‘problems’ focusing onergonomics and healthy ageing at work.
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Discussion tools: body cards
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Discussion tools: action cards
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Discussion tools: equipment cards
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Elaine Yolande Williams Diane Gyi
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