Work Place Ergonomic Burden on Printing Industry: A Case of Birhan And Selam Printing Enterprise
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2020-03
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Addis Ababa University
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All around the world, occupational health and safety is a major concern with in all economic sectors particularly in industries and ergonomics is the study of the design of a workplace, equipment, machine, tool, product, environment, and system which takes into consideration human being's physical, physiological, biomechanical, and psychological capabilities and optimizes the effectiveness and productivity of work systems while assuring the safety, health, and wellbeing of the workers. In general, the goal of ergonomics is to fit the task to the individual, not the individual to the task.
Hence, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the work practice regarding ergonomics in the case company Birhan and Selam printing enterprise and determine ergonomic risk factors to an employee working in the company.
To undertake this research, primary and secondary data are collected through a survey questionnaire, interviews (in the form of discussion) and physical observation in the case company Birhan and Selam printing , as well as referring previous research works and case company records. To analyze and present the data, pie charts, bar graphs, and cause and effect diagram are used. In addition to that, to see whether or not the workers are at risk RULA analysis is done.
From the research, it is concluded that there is a high risk for the employees to get exposed to work related ergonomic injury and the risk factors which leads to ergonomic injury are awkward posture, poor work place design, repetitive task, lighting, dust and temperature. In addition improvement approach is forwarded towards the existing problem of the company. In order to do these there have been three factors that were considered in this study as improvement method; they are enterprise community involvement, the psychosocial work environment and the physical work environment. The enterprise community involvements include top management commitment and training the workers. The psychological work environment includes improvement direction in lighting and temperature. The physical work environment forward improvement model on modifying workstation design. Finally, the overall conclusion and recommendation were developed.
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Ergonomic burden, Birhan and Selam printing enterprise, Work place Ergonomic