Risk Factors of an Online Motorcycle Taxi (Ojek Online) Fatigue in Medan
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsr.k.200311.014How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- risk factors, fatigue, ojek online drivers
- Abstract
Ojek online is one of the on-trend informal jobs in Medan. Yet, an ojek online driver can face accidents and illnesses due to irregular times when doing this job. One of the complaints of the ojek online drivers is fatigue. The manifestation of fatigue is characterized by an increase of blood lactic acid concentration. The blood lactic acid is in concentration threshold of 4 mmol/l blood which indicates that muscle activity has become anaerobic (without oxygen supply). If the blood lactic acid concentration threshold reaches 8 mmol/l blood or more, it indicates that a person has begun to experience physical fatigue. This study was a quantitative research and it involved 40 drivers. The independent variables were ages, durations of work, working periods and workloads. Meanwhile, the fatigue was as the dependent variable. The result of research showed that majority of ojek online drivers experienced fatigue with an average lactic acid level of 2.3 mmol/l. The majority of ojek online drivers had worked for 12 months with an average working of 12 hours/day. The ojek online drivers’ workload reached 150 Km/day. It showed that there were effects of ages (0.045) and workloads (0.000) on the fatigue of ojek online drivers.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Agnes Ferusgel AU - Maria Haryanti Butar-Butar AU - Aquina Widya AU - Linda Hernike Napitupulu AU - Ani Deswita Chaniago PY - 2020 DA - 2020/03/20 TI - Risk Factors of an Online Motorcycle Taxi (Ojek Online) Fatigue in Medan BT - Proceedings of the 5th Universitas Ahmad Dahlan Public Health Conference (UPHEC 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 76 EP - 80 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200311.014 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200311.014 ID - Ferusgel2020 ER -