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As economic growth and people's primary needs for a better life have nurtured their another needs for leisure life and aesthetics, relate to beauty industry has made a rapid prop in quantity and quality. But cosmetologists are easily to suffer from low back pain when they keep working in the wrong posture, lift up a heavy thing and fail to have themselves accustomed to the right working posture. Their muscular and skeletal diseases are emerging as one of the most common vocational disease and of the serious industrial health issues. Such diseases develop when they are exposed to dangerous factors including force, the wring posture and repeated work, and it's required to delve into how cosmetologists could stay away from the muscular and skeletal diseases. So far, no research efforts have been dedicated to analyzing the working environments of cosmetologists to identify what types of risk factors they are confronted with and how the risk factors could be eliminated, and how their low back pain could be prevented should urgently be discussed. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the occupational characteristics of cosmetologists, their working posture, working environment, low back pain experience and opinions about possible ways to prevent low back pain. After a survey was conducted, the statistical data on frequency and percentage were obtained.