A Study on Ergonomic Awareness among Workers Performing Manual Material Handling Activities

Deros, Baba Md; Daruis, Dian Darina Indah; Basir, Ishak Mohamed

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.06.238

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“…During this stage, data collection among operators under study was performed with a self-administrated questionnaire based on previous studies, such as Deros, Daruis, and Basir (2015), Banibrata, Tirthankar, and Somnath (2012), Mad Isa, Baba, Sahani, and Ismail (2014), and Somnath, Samrat, Tamal, Goutam, and Tarannum (2012).…”

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Ergonomics risk assessment among maintenance operators in a Tunisian railway company: A case study

Sebti

Boulila

Hamza

2019

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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Railway truck maintenance plays a crucial role for rail transport. It aims at ensuring the availability of the equipment and the safety of the operations. However, maintenance activities often involve uncommon work and nonroutine tasks and it is obvious that maintenance operators are more threatened than other employees to be exposed to various hazards in their workplace. In Tunisia, the prevalence of occupational accidents and injuries among maintenance workers is not well documented. The target of this cross‐sectional study is to assess ergonomics risks associated with maintenance activities in a railway company. Data collection was carried out through a self‐administrated questionnaire and via direct observations. The Body Parts Symptom Survey (BPSS) was used to identify the discomfort level of the workers. More than 100 maintenance operators working in nine different workshops were involved in this study. From BPSS results, this paper proposed a new method to calculate the discomfort index related to each body part in order to calculate the global discomfort index (GDI) for each workshop. Results showed that the most hazardous workshop was rail‐car maintenance workshop (GDI = 43.06). Four main tasks were assessed with normalized score. Final scores were found to be extremely high. To remedy the raised problems, new adjustable workstations were proposed, which showed a considerable improvement on workers’ postures.

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Ergonomics risk assessment among maintenance operators in a Tunisian railway company: A case study

Sebti

Boulila

Hamza

2019

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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“…System disorder (MSDs) could occur owing to incessantly playacting repetitive tasks, functioning on continual and sustained or tough postures, activity strenuous physical work, and victimization forceful exertion [8]. MSDs in the workplace are studied extensively and it's a standard notion that the work itself could be a major reason behind MSDs [9].…”

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Sustainable Postural Research for Women Workers From Power-Loom Industry Solapur City, Maharashtra, India

2019

IJITEE

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The majority of women workers were performing spinning, warping and finishing tasks in the power-loom industry; espousing an awkward posture. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) are most important problems related to the cyclic and challenging working awkward posture. This study focuses on identification of ergonomic physical risk factors caused because of awkward posture and explores its association with the prevalence of WRMSDs among the ladies staff from power-loom industry Solapur town, geographic area, India. The WRMSDs indications were known estimated and analyzed victimization the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) and Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA). Statistical analysis of ANOVA was performed to search out significance between variables of anthropometry and job details to the departments. NMQ results disclosed that the very best rates of disorders were found within the upper Arm (60%) wrist (52%), neck (42%), and Trunk (64%) severally, and therefore the consequences of the RULA technique showed that the upmost level of risk within the region of upper Arm (risk level four) and within the Trunk (risk level three point five). In addition, the multivariate analysis proven that age and job expertise had a major correlation with the prevalence of MSDs (Table 1, if P < 0.05, significant). By trying the values of correlation coefficients, there's no huge distinction to perform video analysis for analysis of RULA or NMQ for locating pain in body regions.

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“…The administration ought to underline on the structure of the work stations also. A decent plan ought to limit the necessity of MMH exercises that devours high measure of vitality, for example, the usage of transports and rails to transport crude material to the heater [8]. Distinguishing proof of word related hazard components and appraisal of those hazard factors with the assistance of biomechanical assessment for different development related MMH assignments are two basic issues for research.…”

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Risk Assessment in Manual Material Handling of an Edible Oil Company

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Muthukumar²

2019

IJTSRD

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The process of Shifting material manually has the potential for injury to employees. The purpose of this study is to assess and analyze the injury risk level in manual handling activity, as well as to improve the condition. The observed manual material handling activity is truck loading. This activity was analyzed using different software such as NIOSH equation, Rapid Entire Body Assessment, and compression force using 3DSSPP software as well as Nordic body map questionnaire was used to identify body discomfort level. In this study 5 male truck loading operators were taken as subjects, they are loading boxes from stacking area to truck manually. The task involved small repetitive movement while handling material, due to this the load man has faced work related musculoskeletal problems. The Nordic questionnaire is spread among the workers for collecting data, after collecting all information sorted out and analyzes the body parts using above software. The outcome shows that most of the workers who carry out activities have a high level of risk with the score of REBA exceeds points 12 (risk is very high, need immediate changes required to improve the task), Literature survey indicates the lifting index should not be in more than 1, but the value obtained is 7.591 (the job is more dangerous and stressful). Compression force exceeds the actual limit of 3400, but in this manual handling having compression force is 3408. When the Nordic body mapping method the major discomfort was found in the body parts such as Lower back, Forearm, upper arm. Based on the suggestion conveyor system is introduced and we reassess risk level of the body parts and the result shows that the risk level decreased up to 50%. Therefore replacing manual handling system with the conveyor system with reduces the lower back pain.

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A Study on Ergonomic Awareness among Workers Performing Manual Material Handling Activities

Cited by 52 publications

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Ergonomics risk assessment among maintenance operators in a Tunisian railway company: A case study

Ergonomics risk assessment among maintenance operators in a Tunisian railway company: A case study

Sustainable Postural Research for Women Workers From Power-Loom Industry Solapur City, Maharashtra, India

Risk Assessment in Manual Material Handling of an Edible Oil Company

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