Evaluation of Burnout Syndrome, Anxiety, Stress and Nutritious Food in Industrial Operations Workers in the Electronics Industry of Tijuana, México

Abstract

The presence of the Burnout Syndrome (BS) in the manufacturing of industrial companies, is very evaluated by specialists of physiological thematic, with specialized strategies to improve the operative yielding of workers of the industrial processes. This scientific study is part of an analysis of the presence of a great exhaustion of workers in manufacturing areas, where the personnel of these important areas of any industry worldwide, will make great efforts, creativity, and imagination to achieve the goals that are proposed in each daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, or annual period. This considers that the investigation made in the industrial company that permitted the scientific study in an electronics industry of the Tijuana city, determines the main objective of analyzing the main factors of the generation of the great exhaustion of workers in industrial processes. To achieve an improvement in the activities of the manufacturing areas in the activities of the operational staff, some actions were developed: (1) made of active breaks of 10 minutes for every four hours in a period of 12 hours of each workday, (2) development of support systems to reduce the workload and (3) constant medical check-ups of the workers in these relevant areas of the evaluated company. With this, it was possible to reduce the level of exhaustion, stress and generation of health symptoms, mainly in back, neck, head, waist, arms, shoulders and hands pain, obtaining a 40% increase in the operational level of the workers in the industrial processes of this evaluated industry. Based on the above, increases were generated in the productivity and quality indexes and with it the economic gains.