Development of ergonomically functional relaxing chair for Restaurants

Restaurant workers, who works in the kitchen, doing the different activities in continuous standing posture and spent most of the time inside the buildings and therefore experience the greatest amount of exposure while performing various activities and at greatest risk.Correct sitting and standing posture is an important factor for the prevention of musculoskeletal symptoms. Therefore, the study was undertaken design of ergonomically, functional and aesthetically sound relaxing chair for kitchen related standing activity. For the present study 120 workers were selected from the four south Indian restaurant i.e. Sri Nidhi Sagar, Raaga the family restaurant, Tamarind and Inchara the family restaurant, Bangalore city, Karnataka State. Descriptive cum experimental research design was used for the present study. Purposive sampling procedure was followed to select the sample and data was gathered by interview method. The workers were mainly literate and aged from 25-40 years.

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Tulika Khare, a obtenu une mention très bien tout au long de son cursus universitaire. Elle a obtenu son diplôme à l'université G.B. pant, Uttaranchal. Elle travaille actuellement comme professeur adjoint à l'université RTM Nagpur, Maharashtra, Inde. Elle a publié un livre et plusieurs articles de recherche dans des revues nationales et internationales.