Investigating the ergonomics body posture on repetitive and heavy lifting activities of the workers in aerospace industry’s warehouse

Md Zula, Nur Emelia Natasha (2015) Investigating the ergonomics body posture on repetitive and heavy lifting activities of the workers in aerospace industry’s warehouse. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The project was being done at a manufacturing industrial warehouse. There are working activities that involve ergonomics risk factor in the warehouse. The most ergonomics risk factor activities found in the warehouse is repetitive and heavy lifting activities. The workers are having signs of musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) problems. The problem statement had been retrieved through the distributed questionnaires. The questionnaires had been distributed at the workers in the warehouse. The objectives of this project are; to investigate about the body posture of the workers while doing repetitive and heavy lifting activities in the warehouse, to analyse the discomfort body posture of the workers while undertaken the repetitive and heavy lifting activities that cause the musculoskeletal disorder problems and to suggest the proper body posture and ways to reduce the musculoskeletal disorder problems. The methods that had been used along this project include; interview session, questionnaires, anthropometry measurement, video recording, RULA assessment, Nordic questionnaires, CATIA V5 RULA analysis, NIOSH lifting index calculation, recommended weight limit calculation, house of quality and time study. The result that had been gained at the end of the study is decreasing of the RULA analysis score which can lead to musculoskeletal disorder problems through the improvised working posture and lifting equipment design suggested. Besides that, this project had come out with the guidelines of recommended weight limit and lifting index that can be used by the workers and increase the awareness of the workers about the musculoskeletal disorder issues.

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