Farmer’s Work Posture Analysis Affected Musculoskeletal Disorders

DOI

10.2991/icoemis-19.2019.27How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Farmers, Musculoskeletal Disorders, RULA, REBA, Nordic Body Map

Abstract

Indonesia has an area of 8.1 million hectares of agricultural land. The extent of ricefields in Indonesia, will give an impact on the manpower increase in this field. However, this is not fully supported by the central and regional governments in a logistic way. The tools used by farmers are still classified as traditional, by utilizing their old equipment. The use of Traditional tools accompanied by natural posture, can cause minor injuries to severe injury. Aims of this research is to find the REBA and RULA score based on the farmers work posture while it could reduce musculoskeletal disorders. REBA and RULA method were used to obtain the work posture score. Nordic body map questionnaire also used to obtain pain disorders of the user. In this research, by using REBA and RULA method, obtain result that most farmer are in highly risk based on their work posture. It can be seen by the REBA score which are higher than 4, and RULA score which are 7.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Apsari Eka
AU  - Astrini Yuli
AU  - Hadyanawati Agripina
AU  - Purnomo Hari
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - Farmer’s Work Posture Analysis Affected Musculoskeletal Disorders
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 1st International Conference on Engineering and Management in Industrial System (ICOEMIS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 192
EP  - 196
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icoemis-19.2019.27
DO  - 10.2991/icoemis-19.2019.27
ID  - Eka2019/11
ER  -