Janitorial workers and musculoskeletal pain: webinar explores solutions

San Francisco — Janitorial workers can lower their risk of musculoskeletal injuries by rotating job tasks and, when possible, reducing force, University of California researchers say.

Their finding is included in a forthcoming report, which the researchers discussed during a recent webinar conducted by the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at UC Berkeley.

Janitors “perform physically demanding work” that “can result in low back pain and other musculoskeletal disorders,” said study co-author Melissa Afterman, a certified ergonomist and instructor at UC San Francisco.

The team surveyed 416 janitors in California as part of the study and found that nearly 85% reported experiencing moderate to severe pain in at least one body region over the past month, with all regions affected similarly.

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