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Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) by mitigating ergonomics risk factors on construction site

Injuries have been recognized as serious issues on construction site. The aim of this research is to reduce Ergonomics Risk Factors (ERF) on construction site by mitigating ERFs on construction site. Literature review was carried out and questionnaire formulated and distributed on construction site...

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Main Author: Swarno, Zuraini
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48872/25/ZurainiSwarnoMFKA2014.pdf
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spelling my.utm.488722020-07-02T07:50:34Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48872/ Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) by mitigating ergonomics risk factors on construction site Swarno, Zuraini TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Injuries have been recognized as serious issues on construction site. The aim of this research is to reduce Ergonomics Risk Factors (ERF) on construction site by mitigating ERFs on construction site. Literature review was carried out and questionnaire formulated and distributed on construction site around Johor Bahru. The data collected was analyzed by using HIRARCH. The result showed that performing motions constantly without short pause or break in between task, tools weight is too heavy and working by doing the same motion over and over again was being the high risk on construction site. Therefore, to reduce Musculoskeletal Disorders by having necessities of communication network at site, top management controls, preparing some training and education program, and also wearing the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on construction site. 2014-08 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48872/25/ZurainiSwarnoMFKA2014.pdf Swarno, Zuraini (2014) Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) by mitigating ergonomics risk factors on construction site. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering. http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:86744
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Swarno, Zuraini
Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) by mitigating ergonomics risk factors on construction site
description Injuries have been recognized as serious issues on construction site. The aim of this research is to reduce Ergonomics Risk Factors (ERF) on construction site by mitigating ERFs on construction site. Literature review was carried out and questionnaire formulated and distributed on construction site around Johor Bahru. The data collected was analyzed by using HIRARCH. The result showed that performing motions constantly without short pause or break in between task, tools weight is too heavy and working by doing the same motion over and over again was being the high risk on construction site. Therefore, to reduce Musculoskeletal Disorders by having necessities of communication network at site, top management controls, preparing some training and education program, and also wearing the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on construction site.
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author Swarno, Zuraini
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author_sort Swarno, Zuraini
title Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) by mitigating ergonomics risk factors on construction site
title_short Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) by mitigating ergonomics risk factors on construction site
title_full Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) by mitigating ergonomics risk factors on construction site
title_fullStr Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) by mitigating ergonomics risk factors on construction site
title_full_unstemmed Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) by mitigating ergonomics risk factors on construction site
title_sort reducing musculoskeletal disorders (msds) by mitigating ergonomics risk factors on construction site
publishDate 2014
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48872/25/ZurainiSwarnoMFKA2014.pdf
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