Abstract
Ergonomics is the discipline that emphasizes on the human interaction on the workplace. This paper mainly focuses on identifying the human response variables which can influence the labour productivity in iron and steel industry. The three human responses variables considered in this paper are comfort, performance and health. Data collection has been done from 210 respondents in various steel and iron industries over Kerala. Reliability studies were conducted and analyzed using Cronbach's alpha value. Correlation test has been conducted using Pearson correlation to measure the degree of the relationship between linearly related variables. Various research models were analyzed and significant results were found helping to make an ergonomic analysis finding on the research. The study shows that the health is the most influencing factor and when we consider the effect of health and comfort together the labour productivity is further improved.
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