INTERACTION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL WORK FACTORS, ERGONOMIC RISK AND CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES

The study focused on the role of stress which is accumulating inthe cause of performing work that are stressful and dwelled onpsychosocial work factor affecting construction workers in diverseform ranging from low productivity, absenteeism. It pointed outdifferent types of Ergonomic Risk Factors (E R F) that are verse inmany sectors which remain unknown to construction workers. Itgenerates two research purposes, two research questions and twohypotheses. It shows how the results of this study will be useful toconstruction industry workers in providing those with usefulknowledge and skills in will also be useful to Medical ResearchCenters in Nigeria. It laid down the methodology including theresearch design up to the presentation of the results in tabularform and the interpretations of the results, and the findingsrevealed that ergonomic risk factors had high effects and highfactors on its development. Conclusion was made with theserecommendations: Managers of Construction industry shouldorganize seminars and workshops on ergonomic to constructionindustry workers to expose them on the effects of ergonomic riskthat includes fracture, fatal death, fractures in body parts, damageof properties and materials or loss of jobs. Extra training shouldbe organized by construction industry managers to constructionworkers on the factors that lead to the development of ergonomicrisk among workers on construction industry.