Analysis of environmental ergonomic and individual characteristic factors to cloth mask production output in small-medium enterprises
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Environmental ergonomics and individual characteristics factors play an important role in the productivity of workers. Environmental ergonomics must be designed to achieve ergonomic working conditions and production targets. A cloth mask manufacturer is one of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that faces environmental ergonomics problems concerning achieving the production target. Therefore, this study's objective was to analyze the effect of the workplace environment and individual characteristic factors on cloth mask production output. Data were collected from 8 workers in a cloth mask production station. Furthermore, the correlation between these two factors to cloth mask production output was analyzed by multiple regression analysis. The research hypothesis stated cloth mask production output could be influenced by 6 predictors including lighting intensity and temperature for the workplace environment and age, height, weight, and work experience for individual characteristics. The result showed that lighting intensity, temperature, and age have a significant relationship partially to cloth mask production output. Meanwhile, a combination of all predictors predicted 41 percent of the cloth mask production output variation simultaneously while 59% by other causes. These results confirmed that workplace environment and individual characteristics factors influence the production output in SMEs.
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