Ergonomic Intervention for Metal Stamping Process to Improve Occupational Health in Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs).

Safe workstation design is considered as a vital contributor to feasible occupational health and it is believed to be one of effective approaches that can influence the productivity and competitiveness in almost companies under Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs). In Malaysian SMIs, metal s...

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Main Author:	Isa, Halim
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Published:	2006
Subjects:	TS Manufactures
Online Access:	http://eprints.utem.edu.my/4646/ http://eprints.utem.edu.my/4646/1/Ergonomic_Workstation_Design_Isa_Halim.pdf

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spelling	utem-46462015-05-28T03:27:05Z Ergonomic Intervention for Metal Stamping Process to Improve Occupational Health in Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs). Isa, Halim TS Manufactures Safe workstation design is considered as a vital contributor to feasible occupational health and it is believed to be one of effective approaches that can influence the productivity and competitiveness in almost companies under Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs). In Malaysian SMIs, metal stamping process is carried out using stamping machine and involved a lot of manual handling tasks such as feeding the raw material into machine die, transferring the finished products into container and others. These practices may lead to occupational diseases if the workstation of stamping process is not designed ergonomically. The objectives of the research are to propose the ergonomic workstation design for metal stamping process and evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed design. Ergonomic assessment using Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) and surface Electromyography (sEMG) were applied to assess and analyze the working posture and muscles activity of workers while performing metal stamping process. From both assessments, the results have shown that ergonomic workstation design has improved working posture and reduced the total muscle work/loading of the workers. The proposed design can be adopted to establish conducive working conditions of metal stamping process and thus improve the occupational health practices. 2006-12-01 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utem.edu.my/4646/1/Ergonomic_Workstation_Design_Isa_Halim.pdf Isa, Halim (2006) Ergonomic Intervention for Metal Stamping Process to Improve Occupational Health in Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs). In: International Conference on Technology and Operations Management 2006, 1 - 2 December 2006, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. http://eprints.utem.edu.my/4646/
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description	Safe workstation design is considered as a vital contributor to feasible occupational health and it is believed to be one of effective approaches that can influence the productivity and competitiveness in almost companies under Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs). In Malaysian SMIs, metal stamping process is carried out using stamping machine and involved a lot of manual handling tasks such as feeding the raw material into machine die, transferring the finished products into container and others. These practices may lead to occupational diseases if the workstation of stamping process is not designed ergonomically. The objectives of the research are to propose the ergonomic workstation design for metal stamping process and evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed design. Ergonomic assessment using Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) and surface Electromyography (sEMG) were applied to assess and analyze the working posture and muscles activity of workers while performing metal stamping process. From both assessments, the results have shown that ergonomic workstation design has improved working posture and reduced the total muscle work/loading of the workers. The proposed design can be adopted to establish conducive working conditions of metal stamping process and thus improve the occupational health practices.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Isa, Halim
author_facet	Isa, Halim
author_sort	Isa, Halim
title	Ergonomic Intervention for Metal Stamping Process to Improve Occupational Health in Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs).
title_short	Ergonomic Intervention for Metal Stamping Process to Improve Occupational Health in Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs).
title_full	Ergonomic Intervention for Metal Stamping Process to Improve Occupational Health in Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs).
title_fullStr	Ergonomic Intervention for Metal Stamping Process to Improve Occupational Health in Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs).
title_full_unstemmed	Ergonomic Intervention for Metal Stamping Process to Improve Occupational Health in Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs).
title_sort	ergonomic intervention for metal stamping process to improve occupational health in malaysian small and medium industries (smis).
publishDate	2006
url	http://eprints.utem.edu.my/4646/ http://eprints.utem.edu.my/4646/1/Ergonomic_Workstation_Design_Isa_Halim.pdf
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Ergonomic Intervention for Metal Stamping Process to Improve Occupational Health in Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs).

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