Ergonomic: Effect and employees´ sensitivity towards it

This paper depicts the real situation faced by employees of Semiconductor Company Y at wire bond production line. The importance of ensuring prolonged standing considered as a serious matter was highlighted in the medical facts about the side effects of prolonged standing which is circulatory problems and standing symptoms. The objectives of this research are to identify the effect of prolonged standing during work, to assess the work method and to evaluate employee awareness of ergonomic issues. The data about pain were collected by using risk identification process that used an observation an interview to twenty employees of the company. From the interview result obtained, it was found that seventeen employees were suffered from sore feet and nineteen employees were suffered from back pain. Another step for proactive risk assessment is a direct observation, performed by `walk through´ inspection at the standing workstation areas. Risk assessment involved only wire bond operators in order to ensure that the data collected is accurate and valid which is involved fifty operators wire bond. Data Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA) is derived from the production wire bonds. The (IAPA) Ergonomic Risk Assessment found that the operator of wire bonds in the company´s exposure to risk indicators potential has been identified risk to an acceptable level. The result of evaluation showed that the level of employee´s awareness was still low and an adequate and affective. Ergonomic management system need to be provided so that it will have a great influence to foster culture of awareness.