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Understanding the Ergonomics Issues in Sawmill Industries: Why It Becomes a Concern?

2022; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-981-19-2890-1_57

2195-4364

Balqis Jamaludin, Ezrin Hani Sukadarin, Mirta Widia, Nazlin Hanie Abdullah,

Occupational Health and Safety Research

This study aims to highlight the ergonomic issues in sawmill industries. Thus, the importance of ergonomics risk factors is sought to be dug out. Sawmill workers are exposed to many occupational safety and health hazards, including ergonomics. Previous studies showed that, with ergonomic principles, the workplace could become safer and indirectly will help in increasing workers’ productivity, improve physical and mental wellbeing and job satisfaction among workers. To achieve the study objective, a field observation was conducted, and reviews of published literature were collated to support the findings. In the beginning, a total of 213 articles was identified. However, after undergoing the screening process, only 28 articles are included in this study. Many ergonomics risks are scientifically proven to exist in the sawmill industries. Therefore, the knowledge and understanding of ergonomic risk will help the researchers to plan the next step to improve workers’ wellbeing.