Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) conducts a moldy assessment among the field staff; Drivers and conductors, and mortality audits after death when they are in service.
Community Medical Expert Thiruvananthapuram and Medical College Thrissur partnered with public transport companies to analyze the health conditions of their staff and to determine the fundamental causes for morbidity and increased mortality.
In 2021 itself, around 60 KSRTC staff died of various co-morbidity.
The team is through data on staff from various depots from all the states in the last two-three years.
Health experts are now attending the KSRTC skills development session to bring drivers and conductors through various aspects of the survey.
Experts say quantitative and qualitative assessments are being carried out as part of the project.
“Employees are asked to fill out a questionnaire on a web-based platform that will overcome various factors that regulate their mental and physical welfare.
This will highlight their diet habits, physical activity, addiction, and access to health services.
We will also hold focus group discussions and Interactive sessions for building preliminary data.
In addition, problems such as burnout syndrome will also be overcome.
The work risk is borne by the body because the nature of their work will also be studied, “said a community medical expert who is part of the study team.
The health team will submit a series of recommendations to improve working conditions and offset the factors that have a debilitating impact on mental health and staff.
Transportation Secretary and KSRTC MD BIJU Prabhakar The project began after the increase in the removal of the harness in the corporation.
“I have a direct experience of their difficulties when I have driven a bus.
Almost no air circulation and heat cannot be tolerated.
Expressed conditions that make stress and tiring for hours taking victims on your body.
This is the reason why we provide the need for Bottle holders and insulation cover on Bonnetwith analysis we learned we will be able to arrive at the solution and implement augur change well for our staff, “Prabhakar said.
Poulin Tania Feriah, Deputy Manager – HR, KSRTC said morbidity assessment was intended to improve physical, mental and driver’s work and conductors.