Assessing vision standards for workers of the weaving industry in the Salem District of Tamil Nadu, India: a visual task analysis.
Objectives. This study aimed to establish vision standards, ergonomics and lighting requirements for the various tasks performed by workers in weaving industries and determine whether the visual status of workers complies with established visual standards. Methods. A total of 1230 participants, comp...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Occupational Safety & Ergonomics Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 706 - 717 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=188605121&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 188605121 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10803548 39QK jtl: International Journal of Occupational Safety & Ergonomics issn: 10803548 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2025 vid: 31 iid: 3 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 188605121 183070180 188605121 188605121 10.1080/10803548.2025.2458441 188605121 ppf: 706 ppct: 11 formats: tig: atl: Assessing vision standards for workers of the weaving industry in the Salem District of Tamil Nadu, India: a visual task analysis. aug: au: Madraswala, Murtuza Ebrahim Raquel, Moodley Vanessa Mashige, Khathutshelo Percy affil: College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Nata, South Africa sug: subj: Visual Acuity Standards Blue Collar Workers Textile Industry India Ergonomics Evaluation Lighting Evaluation Needs Assessment Task Performance and Analysis Visual Acuity Evaluation Diagnosis, Eye Work Capacity Evaluation Human India Nonexperimental Studies Cross Sectional Studies Clinical Assessment Tools Prediction Models Work Environment Vision Evaluation Refractive Errors Hyperopia Epidemiology Myopia Epidemiology Prevalence Astigmatism Epidemiology Presbyopia Epidemiology Color Perception Age Factors Occupations and Professions Health Screening Adult Middle Age Male Female Eyeglasses Utilization Intraocular Pressure Evaluation Data Analysis Software Descriptive Statistics Confidence Intervals Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Male Female ab: Objectives. This study aimed to establish vision standards, ergonomics and lighting requirements for the various tasks performed by workers in weaving industries and determine whether the visual status of workers complies with established visual standards. Methods. A total of 1230 participants, comprising 915 men and 315 women, in this observational cross-sectional study were sampled from the weaving and textile industries from manufacturing locations in Salem, Tamil Nadu. The study was conducted in three steps: stage 1 involved assessing vision standards using visual task analysis (VTA), stage 2 involved a thorough eye test and stage 3 included estimating the number of employees who could perform the assigned task with the required visual standards. Results and Conclusions. Based on environmental and task assessment, visual acuity for distance should be 6/12 for near N8. The highest spherical equivalent refractive error for myopia and hypermetropia was –10.63 and 4.63D, respectively. Out of 1230 workers who were profiled to determine visual fitness against the visual standards, 431 (35.0%) did not meet distance vision required standards, 300 (24.4%) workers did not meet standards for performing near tasks and 61(5.0%) were not fit for colour vision tasks. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: forms research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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