06 Jun 2020|Noida | Amity University, Noida
Tips & Tricks to Prevent Back and Neck Pain
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A webinar on ‘Tips & Tricks to Prevent Back and Neck Pain’ was conducted by Dr. Ravi Shankar, Consultant Spine & Orthopedic, Paras, HMRI, Patna. He talked about human evolution and how humans have gone back to the stoop posture in front of the computer as they had begun in the evolution cycle. “Low back pain is the second most common cause of ambulatory visit to a clinician. 84% of individuals have back pain at some point of their life. A bad back affects you 24 hours a day and most cases resolve within 6 weeks with or without treatment. However. Back care does not stop when you leave work and is a 24 hour a day activity,” said Dr. Shankar. He also talked about how sitting properly in the right kind of chair can make a difference, promoting good posture and reducing stress.
“Sitting on a soft, sagging chair can cause stress to the back even though it may feel comfortable. A firm seat giving support to the lower back will help maintain the curves of the spine promoting good posture and reducing stress,” stated Dr. Shankar. Talking about work-related musculoskeletal disorders, he averred that they are the painful conditions of the muscles, nerves and joints which are caused by lack of optimal work ergonomics. The major contributory factors leading to these disorders include fixed or constrained body positions; repeated movements; overuse of hand or wrist and insufficient recovery between movements. He also shared with students the correct way to sit, stand and work while in office or at home to avoid pain in the neck and back.
A webinar on ‘Labour and Decent Work-A Lesson from Covid 19’ was conducted by Mr. Neeran Ramjuthan - Chief Technical Adviser-Social Dialogue & Industrial Relations Project - ILO Bangladesh. He stated that the world of work was affected immensely by the global pandemic and how decent work was most important in human history at this hour. He also talked at length about the effect of this pandemic on the employment of the youth in the present and coming times and how labour is not a commodity. For a job to be decent there are four criterion including (i) International labour standards and fundamental principles and rights at work (ii) Employment creation (iii) Social protection and (iv) Social dialogue and tripartism. Sharing views about how COVID-19 has affected the workplace scenario he shared how a large number of workplaces across the globe are facing issues related to closure except for essential services. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), More than one in six young people have stopped working since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic while those who remain employed have seen their working hours cut by 23 per cent. According to the ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. 4th edition, youth are being disproportionately affected by the pandemic, and the substantial and rapid increase in youth unemployment seen since February is affecting young women more than young men.
He also shared how the pandemic is inflicting a triple shock on young people. Not only is it destroying their employment, but it is also disrupting education and training, and placing major obstacles in the way of those seeking to enter the labour market or to move between jobs. The 4th edition of the Monitor also looks at measures to create a safe environment for returning to work. It says that rigorous testing and tracing (TT) of COVID-19 infections, “is strongly related to lower labour market disruption… [and] substantially smaller social disruptions than confinement and lockdown measures.” In countries with strong testing and tracing, the average fall in working hours is reduced by as much as 50 per cent. There are three reasons for this: TT reduces reliance on strict confinement measures; promotes the public confidence and so encourages consumption and supports employment; and helps minimize operational disruption at the workplace. In addition, testing and tracing can itself create new jobs, even if temporary, which can be targeted towards youth and other priority groups. He also stressed on the need to create a balance between life and livelihood.
A lecture by Mr Ajay Kushwah, Technical Director, Netapp, USA was delivered on ‘Enterprise Storage’. Mr Kushwah said that Enterprise storage is important because businesses today are increasingly vulnerable to downtime, and integrated information protection is central to business continuity. He also mentioned some fun facts like it took 51 years to reach 1TB and 2 years to reach 2TB. IBM introduced the first hard disk drive to break the 1 GB barrier in 1980. Fast Forward to present day, and you can buy 3.5 inch hard disk for 15TB of storage space. Applications have varying needs for storage like SQL, Oracle, Web 2.0, CRM, Audio, Video, PDF etc. “Operating environments require storage infrastructure which can deliver a multitude of storage services. In an enterprise, data is the most scared entity. Compute can be replaced but data cannot be replaced. Storage vendor needs to provide a fast, centralized, scalable and reliable platform built for fault tolerance, redundancy and information protection,” shared Mr. Kushwah. He further averred that Logical Drive is a group of physical disks that appears to your OS as a single drive. It is possible to include the same disk drive in two different logical drives by using just a portion of the space on the disk drive in each. The combination of multiple disk drive components into a logical unit are made by the mean of storage technology.
A webinar was conducted by Mr Rohin Grover. Senior project manager, Vodaphone UK on ‘Impact of COVID-19 on IT Industry’. He stated that the effects of coronavirus are having a significant impact on the technology sector, affecting the raw materials supply, disrupting the electronics value chain and causing an inflationary risk on products. Current scenarios are shifting landscape across a number of areas including hardware/software; IT services; Semiconductors and Network Equipment. “The disruption has caused the following impact and created growth areas including acceleration of remote working; Demand in IT equipments; VPNs and secure wireless LANs; Cloud Solution Collaboration; Bounce in remote learning; Massive transaction in the online retail market; Cyber security and Data Warehousing,” stated Mr. Grover.