Ergonomic Finishing Workstation Design to Resolve Musculoskeletal Disorders Complaints of Workers in MSEs of Silver Jewelry Handicraft

Abstract

The silver industry in Indonesia has the advantage of a long history, most of the craftsmen run it from generation to generation, among others, by traditional methods, especially for carving (handmade). SE SILVER 999 is a gold and silver craft business in Malang. These MSE produces quality jewelry products with unique designs that are made manually or handmade. In the production process, before the jewelry at these MSE is ready to be displayed, the product needs to go through a finishing work station, it’s because in the process of flattening at the bending work station, and in the assembly process, the jewelry is still rough in texture and pale. So that every product produced needs to pass through the finishing work station. However, the finishing work station at these MSE has not met the ergonomics aspects, in terms of the height of the polishing table, the absence of a front cover, the lack of lighting and the location of the polishing wheel point. Based on these problems, the author aims to make a design of finishing workstation with an ergonomic and safe polishing machine box for MSE SILVER 999 using the REBA method