Abstract
Stress and occupational disease are the main issues that need to be addressed by the organization. Unconcerned organizations on this issue will provide a negative impact on employees and organizations and contributing to the increase in work accidents, employee absences problems, and the rise in non-infectious diseases at work. Previous studies show that safety and health problems including stress and occupational disease occur mainly in the manufacturing industry. This study will try to seek an answer whether the ergonomic factors of duties and organizations are related to the increase of stress and occupational disease in the manufacturing industry? A total of 843 respondents from few companies and states in Malaysia were reviewed and analysed. The findings of the study indicated that most group workers were unaware of ergonomics-related problems at work place. The research found that there was a significant relationship between the ergonomics factors of organizations and duties with stress and work-related disease in manufacturing industry. Therefore, several initiatives should be taken by the organizations to improve employee performance especially in relation to the implementation of ergonomics aspects and emphasize on safety and health campaign widely.
Highlights
Based on the statistics declared by the Department of Statistics Malaysia in 2019, the manufacturing sector contributed 4.3%, the second-highest to Malaysia’s economic growth and followed by the agriculture, mining and construction industry
This study will try to seek an answer whether the ergonomic factors of duties and organizations are related to the increase of stress and occupational disease in the manufacturing industry? A total of 843 respondents from few companies and states in Malaysia were reviewed and analysed
The majority of employees involved with this research are male worker (57.1%) who are categorized in the age group of 17 years to 27 years old (37.9%)
Summary
Based on the statistics declared by the Department of Statistics Malaysia in 2019, the manufacturing sector contributed 4.3%, the second-highest to Malaysia’s economic growth and followed by the agriculture, mining and construction industry. The effect of the contributions of the sectors involved in Malaysia to the Malaysian economy has successfully recorded the amount of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continued to increase in the first quarter of 2019 to RM 341.7 billion, the second quarter of 2019, RM 348.8 billion and retain to rise for the third quarter to RM 360.1 billion. According to the Employment Accident Report by the Social Security Organization (SOCSO) reported the total of work accidents in 2018 is 72,631 cases. This big amount is worrying and the need for immediate action is taken. The following is a comparison of the number of occupational accident cases that happened from 2015 to 2018
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