Assessment of Ergonomic Hazards in Workstations and the Effects on Selected Public Servants

The study is an assessment of Ergonomic
hazards in the workstations and the effects on selected

public servants. The research was a descriptive cross-
sectional study carried out at a selected Federal

Government Parastatal in Port Harcourt with a total of
60 public servants assessed using questionnaires,
interviews and observations. The study revealed that
there was poor knowledge and practice of safe ergonomics
amongst the respondents.The
research recommended the total remodeling of
workstations in the public service sector to ergonomic
compliance workstations.