The food supply chain in Malaysia plays a significant function in the nation’s economy. Since the industry is dominated by small and medium sized enterprises (SME), the local food supply chain must satisfy consumer demand. In order to help Malaysia to become more self-sufficient, improvements in the supply chain in terms of key performance indicators (KPIs) are important. However, it is common that strategic and operational KPIs are different and a disparity often exists between them. To be more successful for measuring the entire supply chain, the linkage of strategic objectives to operational objectives must be aligned to ensure the appropriate KPIs measure a proper connection between what they do and what the business achieves. The objective of this article is to propose a preliminary key indicator to measure sustainable performance within the perspective of Malaysian food supply chain. Key indicators have been summarized based on the previous researches focusing on the issue between 2007 until 2018. An overall of nine perspectives on sustainable performance measures in the food supply chain involved employee, supplier, health and safety, community, customer, cost effectiveness, quality, compliance and efficiency. These perspectives can be classified into three hierarchies; namely, strategic, tactical and operational. This paper proposes integration of key indicators as a starting point to evaluate the generic performance of Malaysia food supply chain.
The objective of the study is to identify the effect of three demographics factors: education level, working experiences and ergonomics training on ergonomics awareness (EA) and ergonomics practices (EP). 146 questionnaires were received from Safety and Health Officers (SHOs) in Malaysian manufacturing companies. Exploratory Factor Analysis has been carried out but not discussed in this paper. Ergonomics awareness (EA) represented by four elements: knowledge in ergonomics technical (KET), beliefs on implication of work and need for improvements (BIIWNI), beliefs on the importance of assessment (BIAss) and beliefs on the importance of anthropometrics and suitability to workers (BIASW). Ergonomics practices (EP) were represented by two elements; ergonomics technical (Ergo_Tech) and ergonomics administrative (Ergo_Ad). Analysis were carried out by Levene test, MANOVA, and linear regression (stepwise). It is found that ergonomics training and working experiences as SHO have significantly interact with EA, while only ergonomic training has significantly interacted with EP. Surprisingly, education level of SHOs did not contribute significantly to both EA and EP. It is concluded that ergonomics training should be emphasized in order to get a successful ergonomics practice and it should be considered as a compulsory in order to obtain continuous program (CEP) point for renewal of SHO certificate.
Polycrystalline yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG) ceramic has been prepared using microwave sintering. Micron-sized of Al2O3 and Y2O3 powders were mixed through in house fabrication mixer for 24 hours before calcined at 1100 °C and palletization process. The effect of sintering parameters on the microstructures was observed at various and holding times. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis was carried out to determine and quantify phase transformation with respect to these parameters. It was found that three phases namely YAM (Y4Al2O9), YAP (YAlO3) and YAG have been identified. While both grain sizes and density of sintered samples were found increased from 1.4 μm to 2.46 μm and 90% to 98%, respectively. Therefore, microwave sintering has a significant effect on the densification behavior of YAG.
The rapid development of industrial field giving a huge impact to the society or even in organizations however total number of accident is currently increase due to the lack awareness about the important of safety and health issue. This study focusing on safety and health issue and safety improvement at Palm Oil Mill at East Malaysia. The mill is produce two products which are crude oil and kernels. In order to identify the hazards in this mill, several methods had been used such as questionnaires distribution, interview session, observations, safety audit and body discomfort survey. Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment, and Risk Analysis (HIRARC) model were used in this study. The data collected and recorded for the risk and ergonomic assessments. Risk and ergonomic assessment is conducted after the hazards being identified in all 6 stations of Palm Oil Mill with total 33 activities were analyzed. Quantitative risk assessment was used by considering the likelihood and severity of the hazards. The values of risk were determined based on the table of likelihood and severity. All the hazards identified is sort into station and level of risk. The hazards with high value of risk is considered as the problem identification. Comprehensive discussion and analysis were done on the top three (3) high risk activities. The ergonomic assessments which are Rapid entire body assessment and body discomfort survey were used as a tools to support finding. HIRARC model has successful being used to analyze the hazard and risk exposure on the palm oil mill and action need to be taken on the high risk activities to prevent from an accident.
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