Exploratory Analysis of Ergonomics Importance at Workplace and Safety Culture Amongst Occupational Safety and Health Practitioners

Rozlina, Sirat; Shaharoun, Awaluddin Mohamed; Hamid, Syed Hassan Syed Abdul; Norhayati, Zakuan

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6190-2_8

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“…All variables in ergonomic awareness were found to be related with safety culture. This finding is important to show the level of ergonomics awareness and its role in shaping safety culture (Rozlina, Awaluddin, Hassan, Abdul, & Norhayati, 2012) However, the variables that should be considered most are implication and improvement and suitability of job to the workers because as these variables could have more influence on safety culture. Ergonomics in the workplace has also been shown to yield significant increases in productivity, reductions in employee absenteeism, and decreases in employee turnover rates (Lechner, 2015).…”

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An Interaction Of Ergonomic Awareness And Safety Culture

Mohamad¹

2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Ergonomics awareness substantially affects the business, association, administration, workers and general prosperity of the framework. Since there exist a very limited study on the issue of ergomomic awareness, this paper aim at investigating ergonomic awareness and its effect on safety culture.Questionaires were distributed to employees from manufacturing company in Pahang, Negeri Sembilan and Terengganu. A total of 300 questionaires were distributed but only 200 questionares were return and usable represent 67% of respond rate. Data analysis used IBM Statistical Packages for the Social Science (SPSS) version 22, and Partial Least Square Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) version 3.0. Finding of the study revealed that all factor loadings and average variance extracted (AVE) surpassed the prescribed estimation of 0.5 and AVE construct range from 0.960 to 0.983 which surpassed the suggested estimation of 0.7. All the hypothesis of this investigation is bolstered and acknowledged. It was discovered that usage and change were the most critical indicator of the degree of ergonomic awareness took after by supportability of occupation. The higher the degree of ergonomic awareness, the better is the firm's safety culture.

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An Interaction Of Ergonomic Awareness And Safety Culture

Mohamad¹

2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…The responsibility of SHO is very high as he/ she is the person assigned by employer to ensure the highest OSH standards at workplace are implemented. He/ She should constantly advise employer on the importance of ergonomics and the practice [18]. Thus the awareness of SHO should be high and it not just related to education and training, but also related to knowledge and experience of handling the risk [34] (Harvey et al, 2001).…”

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“…Ergonomics is considered as a separate body of knowledge from safety and there is no measurement on the influence of ergonomics towards safety culture or vice versa [1]. Some researchers summarized that attitude may affect behavioural intentions, which represents a plan of action that is arrived at through conscious or aware on the importance [18] [19]. Davidson et.…”

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“…At the same time, poor safety behaviour may adversely develop a low safety practice [24]. Among attitude theorist, it is commonly mentioned that attitudes can be determined by "beliefs" [18] and assumed that beliefs are in some sense the building blocks of attitudes [25]. This attitude on how they look the importance of safety subsequently may shape a culture [19] [23] [24] [26].…”

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Education Level, Working Experiences and Ergonomics Training Effect on Ergonomics Awareness and Practices in Malaysia

Sirat¹,

Rohani²,

Ahmad³

et al. 2018

IJET

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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.

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“…Ergonomics is the discipline of science concerned with understanding and analyzing the interactions between humans and their surrounding environment with taking the effect on the human abilities [1]. Improving the ergonomics in workplaces increases the overall productivity of workers and consequently the factory.…”

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Ergonomic analysis of a working posture in steel industry in Egypt using digital human modeling

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This study presents solutions for improving a bending awkward posture in steel industry in Egypt using digital Human Modeling (DHM). The information is gathered by interviewing the workers, working postures are recorded via a video camera while the worker is performing his usual work. The postures are analyzed using DHM software. Porter comfort analysis and Rapid Upper Limb Assessment are applied for postures analysis. The analysis shows high levels of discomfort in neck, trunk, leg and forearm. These discomforts could cause permanent injuries over long periods. A modified design is proposed to reduce the fatigue caused by the original process. Furthermore, a comparison between the old and new design is performed. This study is important as workers comfort and productivity are increased when the work environment is ergonomically well-designed.

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Exploratory Analysis of Ergonomics Importance at Workplace and Safety Culture Amongst Occupational Safety and Health Practitioners

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

An Interaction Of Ergonomic Awareness And Safety Culture

An Interaction Of Ergonomic Awareness And Safety Culture

Education Level, Working Experiences and Ergonomics Training Effect on Ergonomics Awareness and Practices in Malaysia

Ergonomic analysis of a working posture in steel industry in Egypt using digital human modeling

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