Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has a significant impact on the economic sector, especially small industries. One that feels the impact is the traditional batik industry. In the traditional batik tulis business, the process is still mostly done by humans. One of the most critical processes in the traditional batik tulis is the canting process, and batik workers do it in groups in a canting workstation with the value of togetherness and sharing. However, given the New Normal Era, to prevent the spread of COVID-19, new considerations are needed in arranging workspaces for traditional batik workers. This study aims to provide recommendations for alternative layout compositions of equipment in the workspace, canting workstations, following New Normal standards. This research was conducted through an ethnographic approach with interviews and observations of several batik houses in Central Java. The research continued with experimentation by reconstructing batik activities using canting at the Ergonomics Laboratory, Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology. The experimental results were then simulated to produce the best layout composition according to the New Normal workspace standards. In conclusion, a circular layout with one stove with a capacity of two batik workers with opposite orientations was the best layout for following physical distancing to prevent the spread of the SARS-COV-2 virus. Keywords : batik tulis, behavior, layout, physical distancing, workstation DOI: 10.7176/ADS/88-02 Publication date: December 31 st 2020
Highlights
Indonesia's economic sector suffered a significant decline due to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in micro, small and medium enterprises (Evandio, n.d.)
Preventive measures to prevent COVID-19 are recommended by the WHO (World Health Organization, 2020a)
In the early days of the pandemic, the government encouraged the social distancing movement to prevent the spread of the virus more widely, but the social distancing movement is turning into physical distancing (Pratomo, 2020)
Summary
Indonesia's economic sector suffered a significant decline due to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in micro, small and medium enterprises (Evandio, n.d.). Preventive measures to prevent COVID-19 are recommended by the WHO (World Health Organization, 2020a). The WHO recommend workers to do their job by always maintaining hand hygiene, using masks, physical distancing, maximizing work from home, regularly cleaning the room using disinfectants, providing information and counseling regarding this pandemic and if there are cases of COVID-19 in the work area who advises providing special treatment to prevent wider spread immediately. Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist from WHO, said that "We're changing to say physical distance from social distance and that's on purpose because we want people to stay connected." (World Health Organization, 2020b). Hall said four types of distances informally where this distance depends heavily on personality and environmental factors. The four distances are intimate distance, about 15 to 20 cm, and personal distance is about 45-76 cm, social distance is about 213-365 cm, and public distance 365-762 cm even above 762 cm (Hall, 1990)
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