RULA: Postural Loading Assessment Tools for Malaysia Mining Industry

The ergonomics and environment factors have been the core issue for the mining industry for many years, and its profiles are rising. To ensure an ergonomics work environment, it is possible to require specific attention especially in this industries sector. It is becoming increasingly difficult to i...

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Main Authors:	Norhidayah, M. S., N. M. Zuki, N. M., Muhamad Arifpin, Mansor, Ahmad Rasdan, Ismail
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17138/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17138/1/fkm-2015-hidayah-RULA%20Postural%20Loading%20Assessment.pdf

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spelling	ump-171382018-10-17T02:59:43Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17138/ RULA: Postural Loading Assessment Tools for Malaysia Mining Industry Norhidayah, M. S. N. M. Zuki, N. M. Muhamad Arifpin, Mansor Ahmad Rasdan, Ismail HD Industries. Land use. Labor The ergonomics and environment factors have been the core issue for the mining industry for many years, and its profiles are rising. To ensure an ergonomics work environment, it is possible to require specific attention especially in this industries sector. It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the essential issue in Malaysia due to lack of ergonomics knowledge and low awareness among the engineers in the mining sector. The focus of this study is to evaluate and validate the physical risk factor associated with work-related musculoskeletal disorder (WMSDs) by using Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) among mining industry workers. All the physical risk factors involved the main body regions such as upper arm, lower arm, wrist, trunk, neck and leg that has been identified associated with WMSDs. There were 18 subjects selected to involve in this study. Those subjects were chosen according to their job task. To increase the reliability of the result, each subject was evaluated thrice in the trials. From the analysis, the average of final score of the RULA is 7 indicates high risk and calls for engineering/or work method changes to reduce or eliminate muscular disorder risk. The results of the analysis were used to improve the process of work, design of workstation and also improving the work posture to enhance the comfort level of operators. This study is crucial among the mining industry that is a lack of the information and research about the ergonomics issues in the industry. The overall finding indicated that the whole process of selected work task will contribute to musculoskeletal disorder either for a short or long time exposure. 2016 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17138/1/fkm-2015-hidayah-RULA%20Postural%20Loading%20Assessment.pdf Norhidayah, M. S. and N. M. Zuki, N. M. and Muhamad Arifpin, Mansor and Ahmad Rasdan, Ismail (2016) RULA: Postural Loading Assessment Tools for Malaysia Mining Industry. In: Proceeding of 3rd International Conference on Ergonomics & !st International Conference on Industrial Engineering (ICE & ICIE 2015), 19-20 August 2015 , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. pp. 1-8..
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spellingShingle	HD Industries. Land use. Labor Norhidayah, M. S. N. M. Zuki, N. M. Muhamad Arifpin, Mansor Ahmad Rasdan, Ismail RULA: Postural Loading Assessment Tools for Malaysia Mining Industry
description	The ergonomics and environment factors have been the core issue for the mining industry for many years, and its profiles are rising. To ensure an ergonomics work environment, it is possible to require specific attention especially in this industries sector. It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the essential issue in Malaysia due to lack of ergonomics knowledge and low awareness among the engineers in the mining sector. The focus of this study is to evaluate and validate the physical risk factor associated with work-related musculoskeletal disorder (WMSDs) by using Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) among mining industry workers. All the physical risk factors involved the main body regions such as upper arm, lower arm, wrist, trunk, neck and leg that has been identified associated with WMSDs. There were 18 subjects selected to involve in this study. Those subjects were chosen according to their job task. To increase the reliability of the result, each subject was evaluated thrice in the trials. From the analysis, the average of final score of the RULA is 7 indicates high risk and calls for engineering/or work method changes to reduce or eliminate muscular disorder risk. The results of the analysis were used to improve the process of work, design of workstation and also improving the work posture to enhance the comfort level of operators. This study is crucial among the mining industry that is a lack of the information and research about the ergonomics issues in the industry. The overall finding indicated that the whole process of selected work task will contribute to musculoskeletal disorder either for a short or long time exposure.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Norhidayah, M. S. N. M. Zuki, N. M. Muhamad Arifpin, Mansor Ahmad Rasdan, Ismail
author_facet	Norhidayah, M. S. N. M. Zuki, N. M. Muhamad Arifpin, Mansor Ahmad Rasdan, Ismail
author_sort	Norhidayah, M. S.
title	RULA: Postural Loading Assessment Tools for Malaysia Mining Industry
title_short	RULA: Postural Loading Assessment Tools for Malaysia Mining Industry
title_full	RULA: Postural Loading Assessment Tools for Malaysia Mining Industry
title_fullStr	RULA: Postural Loading Assessment Tools for Malaysia Mining Industry
title_full_unstemmed	RULA: Postural Loading Assessment Tools for Malaysia Mining Industry
title_sort	rula: postural loading assessment tools for malaysia mining industry
publishDate	2016
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17138/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17138/1/fkm-2015-hidayah-RULA%20Postural%20Loading%20Assessment.pdf
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RULA: Postural Loading Assessment Tools for Malaysia Mining Industry

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