Steamed Bread Industry - Ergonomics Flavour

Tired and fatigue are common among workers in the domestic-scale steamed bread industry. Limited facilities and knowledge force workers to work as they are in accordance with their instincts and to imitate the workings of their colleagues. Far from working with ergonomics, for them the important thing is finished the work, get a wage, that's all. Workers are not yet aware of the hidden potential of applying ergonomics in the workplace that can be good for them.

The implementation of Ergonomics in the steamed bread industry has been studied several times with satisfying results for researchers, workers and business owner. Ergonomic way of working has been able to make tangible benefits for workers such as the loss of muscle pain, and increase working spirit. Work feels easy and fun, even making work an exciting activity.

Why can the application of ergonomics in the steamed bread industry benefit the workers? Instinctively, workers want to get the job done quickly. They do not care about healthy work methods. Workers often perform unnatural movements such as lifting the dough and equipment by bending, making monotonous repetitive movements, forgetting to take a break (precisely pretending to forget), not caring about the relatively humid and hot environmental conditions, and various other ergonomic issues. Then what happen? Indeed, at the beginning workers can work quickly, but their body receives a considerable burden both from their activities and from the environment. In addition to muscle pain that occurs, the energy needed to doing work is also high, making workers more tired, eventually the speed of the workers also decreases. Workers begin to "be forced" to rest through doing useless movements just to get rid of fatigue. The application of ergonomics in the steamed bread industry can prevent this story from happening. By working ergonomically such as lifting the dough and equipment with a squat posture (better than bending), working more dynamically, manipulating air flow so that the ambient temperature is comfortable, it will certainly have a happy ending. Workers no longer feel pain in their muscles, workload is not as heavy as before, energy used to work more efficiently, so that fatigue does not interfere with the speed and quality of work. Workers will love their work more because there is a flavour of Ergonomics in it. (KD)