Ergonomics analysis of falling among workers at workplace

Abstract

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.