Mitigation of ergonomic risk factors in agriculture through suitable hand-glove materials

Abstract

Farmers typically utilize their hands in the vegetables picking activities which bring about mental and physical shortcoming, hardship, misuse and pain. As alleviating measures, the commercially available gloves protect hands from cuts, injuries, skin hardness and abrasions, by enhancing the working efficiency of farmers. Therefore, an endeavor was made in this study to investigate the ergonomic risks in carrying out the picking tasks in agricultural sectors in India, and to recommend any appropriate glove material for farming activities in order to achieve more productive manual tasks.