RULA-based work posture evaluation for Indonesian workers: A comparison between office and manufacturing

The high number of use Indonesian workers for manufacturing and office will impact safety and health issues in the future. Human body posture in the work become one of factor influence that because in daily life human spends more time doing work with more than 1/3 portion. Using bad posture for a long duration will impact human performance in the work. Moreover, some musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) problems are affected by improper working posture. Using the physiological approach evaluation for the posture will give information about the risk for workers with their current posture of work. RULA analysis was collected from 103 posture evaluations of office and manufacturing workers. The regression and analysis of variance were done to evaluate the significant impact of the human upper body segment for the RULA evaluation score. Comparing the office and manufacturing conditions of work will give information about the risk for Indonesian workers and their status. The result shows that manufacturing workers has a higher risk than office worker with 6 and 4 scores respectively. There is also a similar result for the office and the manufacturing worker for the body segment effect which mentions that trunk, neck, upper arm, lower arm, and neck had a significant effect.