Musculoskeletal Work-Related Disorders and Ergonomic Hazards among Bank – Employees in State of Kuwait

This study investigates musculoskeletal disorders and the ergonomic hazards among bankemployees in the State of Kuwait. For the purposes of this study, a descriptive survey was customized. The population of the survey is 34 employees working in, Kuwait Finance House (KFH) Bitak Branch in Kuwait. 40 copies of the questionnaires were disseminated for data collection and 33 copies were received yielding the percentage of 82.5%. The title of the questionnaire was Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders & Ergonomic Hazards. With using Pearson Product Moment Correlation, the reliability co-efficient of 0.84 was established for the questionnaire. The guide of this study is two research questions and six null hypotheses tested at significance of .05 level. In analyzing the questions and demographic data of the research, the descriptive statistics of standard deviation, mean and percentage were used. Inferential statistics of z-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Chi-square were used to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The result revealed a significant difference in the ergonomic hazards among bank-employees in KFH Bitak Branch based on age (F {2.998} = 25.33; P< 0.05), gender (z = 5.99; P<0.05) and years of experience (F {2.998} = 8.55; P< 0.05). It also showed a significant difference in workrelated musculoskeletal disorder