Track: Undergraduate Student Paper Competition

Abstract

The research carried out has the general objective of designing a checklist that helps teleworking areas to minimize and correct ergonomic risks; developed due to the Covid -19 pandemic. We must understand several concepts before developing the checklist, these are: What is Ergonomics? What is telecommuting? And what are the ergonomic risks caused by teleworking? After understanding the above concepts, we can raise the main problem of our research. The problem of our research is: What are the occupational and ergonomic risks that employees of a University in Puerto Rico represent due to teleworking after the COVID-19 pandemic? The identified occupational and ergonomic risks associated with teleworking are static and non-static postures, repetitive, joint and tissue movements and muscle pain. The data collection of this research will be carried out through a completely online quantitative survey methodology; that were sent to the employees of the different campuses of the university. The quantitative survey methodology will be used in which the problem will be identified, the survey sample is 150 and the response rate of 306 employees for a population of 1500 employees at the University, the data is collected and divided into four (4) elements: Personal Data, Labor Data, Identification of Ergonomic Risks, and Identification of material provided by the employer, which will be analyzed and identifying the risk factors in the different surroundings caused by telecommuting.