Assessment On Material Handling Activities In Manufacturing Factory For Occupational Health Improvement - Case Study In Green Food Industries

Wong, Wei Liang (2008) Assessment On Material Handling Activities In Manufacturing Factory For Occupational Health Improvement - Case Study In Green Food Industries. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Occupational health problems happened on work such as material handling activities and the most common injuries that a worker usually have is low-back pain, disability and Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs). More employees are injured in industry while moving materials than performing any other single function. These injuries have been estimated to account for 20 percent to 25 percent of all occupational injuries, as stated by Reese (2000). The first objective of this study is to determine the workers’ responses on experiencing discomfort and pain during work through questionnaire. The second objective is to analyze the workers’ posture and lifting limits on material handling activities through NIOSH and RULA tool. The third objective is to propose solutions and improvement using engineering control for workers’ posture and lifting limits on material handling activities after revising the effectiveness of the proposed solutions. Ten workers are selected to participate in the questionnaire survey where five workers from the production station and another five from packaging station. Six case studies on the workers’ material handling activities are selected for risk assessments using analytical tools such as RULA tool to analyze the workers’ posture and NIOSH tool to analyze the lifting limits for that job. Two phases are conducted in each case studies where the first phase consist of current material handling method used and the second phase consist the improved material handling method. From the questionnaire, the results shows that most of the workers have the possibility of being affected with occupational health injuries where most of them are in production station. The results from the case studies Phase 1 also shows that workers are highly risk of injuries and the Phase 2 results show that it reduces the risk of workers having injuries.

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