Obtain huge income from health Infestation strategy: Using Ergonomic principles standards

27/06/2020 Views : 161

I Putu Yudi Pramana Putra

Globalization is an age that increases the risk of complaints in the musculoskeletal system as the main mechanism  mechanical in the human body that often caused by working posture or biomechanical of the workers body without obeying safety  and ergonomic standards principles. The basic principles of the safety on workers are often as aspect which is deliberately neglected by business owners who are hampered by the lack of information and trimming the cost of the health budget in order to get the company huge profit as possible. The advantage that a company receives without obeying to the safety and ergonomic standards of its employees or workers is basically a time bomb which at a certain time will cause more huge complaints to the worker's body thereby reducing company efficiency and income.

One of the most common complaints related to work musculoskeletal disorders (WMDs) in workers of a company is low back pain. Low back pain is a pathological condition where pain is in the area around the waist / lumbopelvic so that changes posture due to body compensation, increased pain when active motion until when its become worst also produced referred pain in certain conditions. Usually the calculation of work musculoskeletal disorders (WMDs) themselves can be assessed from the greater risk of complaints occurring in the body by using body mapping (Nordic Body Map) combined with measurement of REBA and RULA scores. High scores that obtained from the final REBA and RULA measurements indicate the high risk and more importance of modification / adjustment of the work station or posture of the worker's body. The low back pain incident itself is most commonly suffered by workers carrying out heavy lifting and repetitive heavy lifting activities. Adjustments for the modification of the work station can be in the form by using lift assistive device (work assistive device) so that the worker no longer has moving awkward like bending the trunk very much  and  reduce compensation to the muscles of the lumbar stabilizer and mobilizer. Physiotherapy interventions can be given by strengthening these core muscles themselves so that there is an increase in protection from compensation for poor work postures. Exercise can be one of the minimum alternative solutions to companies that cannot afford to provide lifting equipment. Strengthening exercises of the core muscles have not been able to optimally replace assistive device, but minimal its will be efficient to reduce the risk factors for low back pain and complaints for the worker's own body.

Besides being caused by lifting postures of workers, with prolonged sitting activities also have a significant risk of low back pain, adjustment chairs that are designed to be adjusted according to anthropometry will greatly play a role as a modification of the station and work posture. The results of the study show that a combination of core training and ergonomic modification can reduce the risk of low back pain by up to 70 percent due to work. Prolonged sitting activities such as typing in front of a computer for more than 6 hours will increase the risk of low back pain due to eccentric muscle contractions, reducing the flexibility of the lumbar stabilizer and mobilizer. The existence of activation of muscle contractions that last for a long time cause adaptive response from muscles to become more tightness.

Some companies which currently have already applied aspects of employee safety  principles and ergonomics in the accumulative time are able to show a consistent growth rate of production each year. Knowledge of safety working posture and ergonomics on work system is basically a habit of training and long-term investment for companies that have positive value. It does require a significant amount of cost to make adjustments from work stations and health promotion, but the results obtained are even greater.