EVALUASI ERGONOMI DAN DESAIN ALAT BANTU KERJAPETANI PADI DI DESA SERANGMEKAR KABUPATEN BANDUNG

• Main Author: Aditya Wonodirdjo, James
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/76384
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

As an agricultural country, rice farming is one of the vital employment sectors in Indonesia. However, currently most agricultural work is still done manually and using simple tools. Rice farming jobs that are done manually are suspected of having risk factors such as stooped posture, bending the neck, and repetitive movements correlated with musculoskeletal disorders both in the near and long term. This research explores risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders in rice farming work in Serangmekar Village, Bandung Regency. This study aims to design a tool that can reduce musculoskeletal disorders risk factors for rice farmers in Serangmekar Village, Bandung Regency. This research uses the design thinking framework to design farming tools that suits the needs of rice farmers. This study applies the SNI 9011: 2021 standard in identifying skeletal muscle disorders due to rice farming work in Serangmekar Village, ergonomic risk factors in farmer's jobs, and directions for improving work methods as criteria to create alternative tool designs. This study uses substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to another use, eliminate, and reverse (SCAMPER) techniques to collect ideas in designing alternative tool designs. Research has found that the body parts with highest risk of complaints are hands, knees, feet, calves, lower back, and hips. The jobs that received the most complaints were rice harvesting (34.43%) and rice planting (32.55%). Rice harvesting and rice planting carries an ergonomic risk factors of a hunched posture, a bent neck, and repetitive hand movements. In the long term, these ergonomic risk factors correlate with musculoskeletal disorders, such as changes in bone and muscle structure, as well as permanent pain in related body parts. Based on the results of an ergonomic risk factors evaluation, an ergonomic intervention design was carried out in the form of the concept of a paddy harvesting machine and a manual paddy transplanter. The risk factor checklist score in SNI 9011:2021 document shows that both tools have the potential to reduce ergonomic risk factors by changing work postures and reducing the exposure time to ergonomic risk factors.