A study of workers posture on napier harvest process
The 2nd International Malaysia-Ireland Joint Symposium on Engineering, Science and Business 2012 (IMiEJS2012) jointly organized by Universiti Malaysia Perlis and Athlone Institute of Technology in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia, Education Malaysia and Malay...
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my.unimap-293702013-10-30T14:28:50Z A study of workers posture on napier harvest process Mohd Khairul Faizi, Abd Rahman Shahriman, Abu Bakar, Dr. Hazry, Desa, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ruslizam, Daud Wan Khairunizam, Wan Ahmad, Dr. Siti Khadijah, ZA'BA, Dr, mkhairulfaizi@unimap.edu.my shahriman@unimap.edu.my Agriculture industry Ergonomic Biomechanical Musculoskeletal disorders The 2nd International Malaysia-Ireland Joint Symposium on Engineering, Science and Business 2012 (IMiEJS2012) jointly organized by Universiti Malaysia Perlis and Athlone Institute of Technology in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia, Education Malaysia and Malaysia Postgraduates Student Association Ireland (MyPSI), 18th - 19th June 2012 at Putra World Trade Center (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Workers in the agriculture industry are extremely exposed to the risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) either in short or long term which is directly affected to the production outputs. As initial, this paper will review the biomechanical study on various agriculture industries in order to improve the work methods and techniques. The purpose of this study is to investigate the workers posture during Napier harvest process. There are two types of harvest method will be focused on; manual chopping and using machine. To assess real practices in harvesting work, field observation has been conducted to investigate the workers posture and then it is recorded. Next, human model was constructed with the 50th percentile value for male body segment. Then biomechanical posture simulation has been conducted and the biology data collected for analysis purpose. The analysis result shows that manual chopping harvest method consuming greater muscle activity compared to using of machine. Thus, this study provides the preliminary quantitative data to improve the work methods and techniques on Napier harvesting process in conjunction to ensure the ergonomic interventions. Eventually, this study also might contribute of generating the innovation in designing new tools to increase the agriculture workers performance. 2013-10-30T14:28:50Z 2013-10-30T14:28:50Z 2012-06-18 Working Paper p. 963-968 978-967-5760-11-2 http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/29370 en Proceedings of The 2nd International Malaysia-Ireland Joint Symposium on Engineering, Science and Business 2012 (IMiEJS2012); Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) |
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Symposium on Engineering, Science and Business 2012 (IMiEJS2012) jointly organized by Universiti Malaysia Perlis and Athlone Institute of Technology in collaboration with The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia, Education Malaysia and Malaysia Postgraduates Student Association Ireland (MyPSI), 18th - 19th June 2012 at Putra World Trade Center (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
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