Workplace ergonomics: Perceptions on employees stress levels and safety

• Main Authors: Lao, Addie Louise S., Ng, Janel, Tiu, Kimberly Camille
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2014
• Subjects: Job stress; Human engineering > Standards. Work environment > Standards; Work design > Standards. Offices > Safety measures; Business and Corporate Communications
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11394
• Institution: De La Salle University

Studies have shown that ergonomics implementation is beneficial for the companies and its employees. Benefits include decrease in medical costs and stress levels, and increase in employee productivity, comfort, and safety. Even with these benefits in place, ergonomics implementation is still not prevalent in the Philippine corporate setting. Therefore, this study would like to examine the effects of workplace stress levels and safety. A quantitative and qualitative approach was done through conducting a survey to 150 participants and through an interview with the president for human factors of the Philippine Ergonomic Society. The results indicate that ergonomic s implementation negatively affect employees perceptions stress level and positively affects their perceptions on safety. Ergonomics implementation in terms of work area design reduces employees perceived stress levels. Moreover, safety in terms of musculoskeletal disorder has a positive relationship with ergonomics design in terms of adjustable chair and work area design. The ergonomics design in terms of adjustable chair increase safety, in terms of decreasing the number of accidents and injuries in the workplace. Given the results of this study, it is recommended that companies implement ergonomics.