Musculoskeletal and Postural Stress Evaluation as a Basic for Ergonomic Work Attitudes on Welding Workers

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10.2991/assehr.k.200115.044How to use a DOI?

Keywords

musculoskeletal complaints, postural stress, work attitude

Abstract

Production process in the construction industry is mostly done by human labour in many manual material handling activities ranging from transportation, machine set-up, and workpiece arrangement. At our subject company, 33 workers have complaints about muscle parts, which are commonly referred to musculoskeletal complaints. NBM questionnaire is used to subjectively assess musculoskeletal muscle disorders. The method used is RULA, which targets upper body posture. The results shows that musculoskeletal complaints of the workers vary from low to high, mostly in the upper body parts. Whereas with the RULA method, it needs to improve the activities that have high scores of 7, that is when welding wire is lifted, and when the welding position is 3G and is 4G. Moreover, activities that need to be improved are those with high scores of 6, which when setting up the welding machine, and during the welding process 2G.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wahyu Susihono
AU  - Yuri Selviani
AU  - Ida Ayu Kade Arisanthi Dewi
AU  - Ni Luh Gede Liswahyuningsih
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/01/20
TI  - Musculoskeletal and Postural Stress Evaluation as a Basic for Ergonomic Work Attitudes on Welding Workers
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Innovative Research Across Disciplines (ICIRAD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 270
EP  - 276
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200115.044
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200115.044
ID  - Susihono2020
ER  -