Evaluation of the environmental and ergonomic factors that affect the position of Optometrist

Abstract

The Optometrist is a professional who values one of the most important functions of the human body such as vision, however, the risk factors that influence their work have never been studied, nor the preventive measures that can be adopted.  In the present work, the REBA method is used to identify risk due to forced postures in this work position and thus the risk of having a musculoskeletal disorder that derives from daily practice is identified, we found that it reaches a score of 6 at least, that it has a medium risk and action is necessary to mitigate this risk, in the same way a questionnaire is applied to evaluate the lighting in the jobs where we find that in the optometrist's position there is a light deficiency in the diagnostic chair which can cause future visual disorders, for this reason it is concluded that the position of the optometrist, like the rest of the health personnel, is exposed to both ergonomic and environmental risks at the time of carrying out their work, for which preventive measures are proposed for the mitigation of them.