Ergonomics analysis of falling among workers at workplace

Slips and trips are the most common cause of major injuries at work. Fall accidents continue to be a significant cause of fatal injuries and economic losses. Identifying the risk factors causing slip-induced falls is key to developing better preventive measures to reduce fall accidents. Although man...

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Main Author: Tan, Mee Choo
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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spelling my-utm-ep.534732020-07-15T08:42:30Z Ergonomics analysis of falling among workers at workplace 2014-06 Tan, Mee Choo TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Slips and trips are the most common cause of major injuries at work. Fall accidents continue to be a significant cause of fatal injuries and economic losses. Identifying the risk factors causing slip-induced falls is key to developing better preventive measures to reduce fall accidents. Although many studies suggest human physical condition may be one of the risk factors for slip-induced falls, there has been no documented study examining the relationship between human intrinsic factors (physical and psychophysics), extrinsic factors (external environments), and fall accidents. As such, the overall objective of the current study was to identify factor contribute to slips and fall incidents among workers at workplace in Malaysia. This project will analysis slip distance based on the interaction of the external environments factors, human physical factors, and human psychophysics factors that causes the incident of slips and falls. Based on the result suggestion and guideline can be produce to overcome the slips and falls incident. 2014-06 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53473/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53473/24/TanMeeChooMFKM2014.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:85308 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language English
topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Tan, Mee Choo
Ergonomics analysis of falling among workers at workplace
description Slips and trips are the most common cause of major injuries at work. Fall accidents continue to be a significant cause of fatal injuries and economic losses. Identifying the risk factors causing slip-induced falls is key to developing better preventive measures to reduce fall accidents. Although many studies suggest human physical condition may be one of the risk factors for slip-induced falls, there has been no documented study examining the relationship between human intrinsic factors (physical and psychophysics), extrinsic factors (external environments), and fall accidents. As such, the overall objective of the current study was to identify factor contribute to slips and fall incidents among workers at workplace in Malaysia. This project will analysis slip distance based on the interaction of the external environments factors, human physical factors, and human psychophysics factors that causes the incident of slips and falls. Based on the result suggestion and guideline can be produce to overcome the slips and falls incident.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Tan, Mee Choo
author_facet Tan, Mee Choo
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title Ergonomics analysis of falling among workers at workplace
title_short Ergonomics analysis of falling among workers at workplace
title_full Ergonomics analysis of falling among workers at workplace
title_fullStr Ergonomics analysis of falling among workers at workplace
title_full_unstemmed Ergonomics analysis of falling among workers at workplace
title_sort ergonomics analysis of falling among workers at workplace
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
publishDate 2014
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53473/24/TanMeeChooMFKM2014.pdf
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