Khairul Nazri Abd Wahib, Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin
Get full access
Mohd Noraiman MOHD FADZIL1, Shamsul Bahri MD TAMRIN1
1Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,
43400, UPM Serdang, Malaysia
Page 13 – 24 | Vol. 4, No. 1 (2019) | Available online on 1 June 2019
Abstract
A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the effect of hand arm vibration symptoms on ‘Cantas’ machine among palm oil harvester in Selangor. Questionnaire survey is use as strategy of enquiry for achieving the objectives. A vibration analyser HVM 100 attached to a tri-accelerometer was used. The vibration level for working hours is 2.30 m/s2 and is deemed safe as specified in ISO 5349-1. The prevalence of hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) based on reported symptoms through questionnaires was 39.4%. None of them reported persistence in the symptoms. The ergonomics risk factor mean score was 2.93 out of 4. The issues on ergonomic design was weight, maintenance, portability, ease of usage and efficiency. In conclusion, regular screening for early signs of vibration-related damage is needed as an important part of preventing the aggravation of health problems. The workers also gained awareness regarding vibration exposure and safe working procedure on using Cantas machine
Keywords
Cantas machine, HAVS, vibration, palm oil industry, ergonomic issue
Acknowledgement
We would like to thank to Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and also laboratory staff from Environmental and Occupational Health Lab, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences University Putra Malaysia for the support. Not to forget, our sincerest gratitude to all the respondent in giving full commitment in this study.
© 2022 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFEM). All rights reserved.
Recommended articles
Muhammad Syafiq SYED MOHAMED, Isa HALIM, Akmal Hafiz AZANI, Lai Yan LING
Get full accessEvaluation of Effects of Different Types of Machine’s Tutorials on Hands-on Learning Performances Mohd Mustaqim HASHIM1, Muhamad Fakhruddin NOOR ZAINAN1,...
Get full accessPublish with us
Human Factors & Ergonomics Journal (HFEJ), eISSN: 2590-3705 is the official Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Malaysia. The journal is published on a biannual basis. HFEJ aims to address current research in the field of Ergonomics in addition to the broad coverage of cognitive ergonomics, user experience, physical ergonomics and others such as transportation, industrial design and industrial engineering. HFEJ is a member of, and subscribes to the principles of the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), as such we only accept original work.