Rupesh Ravindra Gaikwad

Mechanical Engineering Department, Walchand Institute of Technology,India

Pradip R. Kulkarni

Mechanical Engineering Department, Walchand Institute of Technology,India

Abstract

India is a land of diversity. It is a country with a wide range of religious community. There are number of religious places where people visit frequently. People remove footwears before entering into religious places. Generally these religious places have a system to keep the footwear for some duration till these people return from the religious place. These systems are run by some agencies. The space is provided by the religious place & agency is running that system. For this short duration storage of footwears these agencies charge some amount to the people. Footwears are generally picked from ground by hands and are placed on the racks. Again these footwears are picked from the rack & given to these people. Lot of ergonomic problems are occurring in storage & retrieval of these footwears from the racks. In this work, footwear racks/stands at various religious places are studied. Review of the earlier research work done in case of footwear stands/racks is taken. Findings are given at the end of this paper.

Keywords- Footwear stand/rack, footwear, ergonomics, musculoskeletal disorders