Visalakshi Rajeswari, S2017-03-062017-03-062015https://ir.avinuty.ac.in/handle/avu/1878India is one of the largest and the most important developing countries of the world. In this country, public health emphasizes more on communicable diseases, malnutrition and reproductive healthcare. Majority of the population is working in industrial sector. Industrial revolution as well as globalization is increasing the burden of occupational hazards and changing occupational morbidity drastically. Still occupational health is seen as a secondary issue while formulating health policy and healthrelated programmes. In the construction industry heavy manual materials handling tasl^s are performed regularly and a large number of female labourers are engaged for these tasks. Almost no attention is paid to the health and safety aspects of these construction labourers. The common body components (body parts) such as the head, wrist, shoulders, lower back and knee, followed by upper and lower arm were afflicted with pain because of the activities performed by these women construction wcwkers. The maintenance of posture and fee support of load are particular examples of static work. It is evident that both the upper and lower extremities get affected(with pain/discomfort) due to; thei1 po! sture! adopted while engaging in aCtiivi'tiis governing the construction industry.! Hence an attempt on postural apalysis of| the workers was done in their|jworkingi situation using Rapid Ujper Limb^ Assessment (RULA), as RULA can be used i to assess a particular task or posture for a single user or group of users 'and assess a number of different postures duringl a work cycle to establish a profile of thej musculoskeletal loading. , f Keywords: Construction Industry, Women Construction Workers, Postural Analysi's, RULA