Oil palm workers: designing ergonomics harvesting tool using user centered design approach to reducing awkward body posture by CATIA simulation . By Irwan Syah Mohd Yusoff, Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin, Aini Mat Said, Yee Guan Ng and Mori Ippei. Abstract.
Oil Palm Workers: Designing Ergonomics Harvesting Tool Using User Centered Design Approach to Reducing Awkward Body Posture by Catia Simulation ... The E Cutter development was inspired by the ...
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Ergonomics Observation: Harvesting Tasks at Oil Palm Plantation ... insight into past and present occupational safety and health concerns particularly regarding the ergonomics of oil palm ...
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Ergonomic of the manual Harvesting tasks of oil-palm plantation in Indonesia based on anthropometric, postures and work motions analyses ... and critical anthropometry in designing the harvesting ...
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Oil palm workers perform daily activities that exposed themselves to various ergonomics risk factors. To harvest oil palm fruits from tall trees, specific technique is required. To quantify the ergonomics risks factors, postural analysis was conducted using Quick Exposure Check (QEC) system. It was found oil palm workers were exposed to many postural problems while performing harvesting and ...
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Oil palm evacuation are still labour dependent and room for mechanisation may still exist. With the importance of this industry as one of nation economic contribution the efforts are still considered viable. In order to reduce, improve and empower labours a new concept design was developed. A mock-up interaction was done in virtual environment in order to assess the ergonomic aspect of the ...
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The cutters use a chisel and sickle similar to the harvesting tools. After cutting, the workers cut and arrange the stalk and frond with an axe for easy collection by ... Tamrin SB, Said AM. et al. Oil palm workers: Designing ergonomics harvesting tool using user-centered design approach to reducing awkward body posture by CATIA simulation. ...
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Malaysian oil palm workers are in pain: Hazards identification and ergonomics related problems ... carry heavy tools and loadings exposes the workers to ... ergonomics issues among the oil palm ...
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MECHANIZED TOOLS AND TECHNOVATION MACHINERY IN PALM OIL PLANTATIONS: UTILIZATION OR REJECTION? ... Mechanized tools, Oil Palm ... by incorporating ergonomic approach in the design of machinery for ...
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MOHD YUSOFF IS, MOHD TAMRIN SB, MAT SAID A, Guan NG Y, IPPEI M. Oil Palm Workers: Designing Ergonomics Harvesting Tool Us¬ing User Centered Design Approach to Reducing Awkward Body Posture by Catia Simulation.
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Oil palm workers: designing ergonomics harvesting tool using user centered design approach to reducing awkward body posture by CATIA simulation By Irwan Syah Mohd Yusoff, Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin, Aini Mat Said, Yee Guan Ng and Mori Ippei
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Background: The aim of this study is to develop a new ergonomics chisel based on user centered design approach and to evaluate the effectiveness for reducing awkward posture using CATIA software for simulation analysis. Methods: Respondents were selected using purposive sampling age 18-49 years old, men, experience using chisel (>1 month).
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01.10.2025· In 2010, the World Bank highlighted that the occupational safety and health of palm oil industry workers posed a challenge for the future sustainability of the industry. 3 The palm oil industry, particularly harvesting of the palm fruit, is labor intensive and there is little mechanization in the Indonesian, Malaysian or Nigerian Industries, 8,10,11 which tend to rely on low-paid workers. 12
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Background: The aim of this study is to develop a new ergonomics chisel based on user centered design approach and to evaluate the effectiveness for reducing awkward posture using CATIA software for simulation analysis. Methods: Respondents were selected using purposive sampling age 18 49 years old, men, experience using chisel (>1 month).
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Malaysian oil palm workers are in pain: Hazards identification and ergonomics related problems. Article (PDF Available) · January 2016 with 6,004 Reads How we measure 'reads' A 'read' is counted
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01.12.2013· Oil palm workers perform daily activities that exposed themselves to various ergonomics risk factors. To harvest oil palm fruits from tall trees, specific technique is required. To quantify the ergonomics risks factors, postural analysis was conducted using Quick Exposure Check (QEC) system. It was found oil palm workers were exposed to many postural problems while performing harvesting
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Oil Palm Workers: Designing Ergonomics Harvesting Tool Using User Centered Design Approach to Reducing Awkward Body Posture by Catia Simulation . Article. Full-text available. Nov 2014
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Prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD) in the agricultural industry is a very serious problem but it is not well investigated and understood. In this paper, the authors have made an attempt to evaluate the prevalence of WMSD in oil palm industry during harvesting fresh fruit bunches (FFB). Data collection was conducted by conducting face-to-face structured interviews with
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KUALA LUMPUR (April 12): Labour issues plaguing the Malaysian palm oil industry must be tackled with an increased level of mechanisation, urged an industry expert. "The writing is on the wall for us to get our act together. The mechanisation of the oil palm sector is not a luxury, but an imperative," said industry veteran M R Chandran, who is also advisor of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm
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In the new era of advanced manufacturing technology, machine tool design plays an important role in maximizing productivity and occupational health of industrial workers. However, the machine tool manufacturers face difficulty in designing an ergonomic machine tool that can be suited to Malaysian industrial workers because almost all machine tools were designed according to physical dimensions
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Harvesting palm oil crops involve different risk factors that decrease workerssafety and physical integrity. This paper compares stress on the lower back when using the conventional tool and a new cutting system for cutting bunches.
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Economics. In 2012, the Malaysian palm oil industry employed an estimated 491,000 workers. Malaysia's Sime Darby is the largest listed palm oil company globally, based on plantation area and fresh fruit bunch production. The company was created through a Malaysian government initiated merger in December 2006.
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MODERN OIL PALM CULTIVATION. A modern oil palm plantation needs a grower who has learned how to cultivate oil palms. Growing selected oil palms is not just a matter of picking the fruit; it is a modern crop. The grower must learn how to do his work well. The grower should ask for advice, so that he learns to do better and better.
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Weight of the tool. Ideally, a worker should be able to operate a tool with one hand. The weight of the tool may depend on the use: 2.3 kg (5 lb) if the hand tool will be used away from the body or above shoulder height. 0.4kg (1 lb) for precision tools to allow for good control.
Get PriceAgriculture is one of the most crucial and hazardous sectors in both the developing and the developed countries. The agriculture area has a various problem related to safety and health, calling an urgent research to solve the problem. The purpose of this study is to apply ergonomics checkpoint in agriculture (developed by ILO) in Indonesian as well as to observe the prevalence of
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Ergonomic Guidelines for Manual Material Handling was prepared for publication by the Cal/OSHA Consultation Service, Research and Education Unit, Division of Occupational Safety and Health, California Department of Industrial Relations. It was distributed under the provisions of the Library Distribution Act and Government Code Section 11096.
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Weight of the tool. Ideally, a worker should be able to operate a tool with one hand. The weight of the tool may depend on the use: 2.3 kg (5 lb) if the hand tool will be used away from the body or above shoulder height. 0.4kg (1 lb) for precision tools to allow for good control.
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Ergonomic Guidelines for Manual Material Handling was prepared for publication by the Cal/OSHA Consultation Service, Research and Education Unit, Division of Occupational Safety and Health, California Department of Industrial Relations. It was distributed under the provisions of the Library Distribution Act and Government Code Section 11096.
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OBJECTIVES Production agriculture is commonly associated with high prevalence of ergonomic injuries, particularly during intensive manual labor and during harvesting. This paper intends to briefly describe an overview of oil palm plantation management highlighting the ergonomics problem each of the breakdown task analysis. METHODS Although cross-sectional field visits were conducted in the
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Harvesting & Oil Palm Yield. Oil palms generally begin to produce fruits 30 months after being planted in the fields with commercial harvest commencing six months later. However, the yield of an oil palm is relatively low at this stage. As the oil palm continues to mature, its yield increases and reaches peak production in years seven to 18
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Palm oil can be produced more sustainably and things can change. The Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil or RSPO was formed in 2004 in response to increasing concerns about the impacts palm oil was having on the environment and on society. The RSPO has a production standard that sets best practices producing and sourcing palm oil, and it has the buy-in of most of the global industry.
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NIOSHTIC-2 search results on Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders NIOSHTIC-2 is a searchable bibliographic database of occupational safety and health publications, documents, grant reports, and journal articles supported in whole or in part by NIOSH.
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Recent International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics Articles Recently published articles from International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics. Do we want to keep working in 12-h shifts?
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For companies operating in malaria endemic countries, malaria represents a substantial risk to workers and their dependants, and can lead to significantly reduced worker productivity. This study provides an overview of the malaria epidemiology within an oil palm plantation in Popondetta, south-eastern Papua New Guinea, its implication for the company with its employees and their families and
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