Anthropometric Dimensions And Preferred Working Surface For The Lecturer Office

Mohammad Syafieq, Sazali (2015) Anthropometric Dimensions And Preferred Working Surface For The Lecturer Office. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Ergonomics science is the study of the interaction between people and machines and the factors that affect the interaction. In Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), ergonomics still gets very little attention and there is no database which stores the anthropometric data for UTeM lecturers. The most important thing in this project is to collect all the anthropometric data of Faculty of Engineering Technology (FTK) lecturers consists of 30 males and 30 females as information to be used in the ergonomics study. Then, there is survey analysis to gather information of current work station that experience by lecturers of FTK. As the result, the awareness of ergonomics work station among FTK lecturers are not archive 50% but mostly there are comfort with their work station. Their statement about current work station is proven by the Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) analysis result. It shows the current work station is comfortable and acceptable with the real anthropometric measurements among FTK lecturers include male and female lecturers but there are some suggested investigate further. Finally, this study comes out with ergonomics work station layout as guidance for FTK lecturers.

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