Faktor Yang Berhubungan Dengan Keluhan Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDS) Pada Pekerja Bagian Produksi PT. Gold Coin Indonesia Surabaya

The appropriate application of ergonomics in the workplace aims to ensure that workers at work are always healthy, comfortable, safe, productive and prosperous. Improper Manual Material Handling (MMH) activities can cause harm and even injury to employees. One of the result of incorrect manual material handling (MMH) activities is the occurance of MSDs complaints in workers. Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) complaints are complaints on the part of the skeletal muscle that occurs when the muscle receives a repetitive static load for a long time causing damage to muscles, nerves, joints, cartilages and intervertebral discs. In addition to manual handling activities, age, work position, length of work, employment period, workload and several environmental factors also cause MSDs complaints in workers. Initial observations showed that workers in the production section of PT. Gold Coin Indonesia did a lot of manual material handling in an odd or nonergonomic position, with a frequency more than 40 times a day and a working time of approximately 8 hours a day. The load during manual material handling activities was an average of 280 kg every day and sometimes the activity was carried out alone by workers, caused complaints of pain in the worker's body parts. The interview results showed that workers often experience complaints in the form of muscle pain and body aches after doing their work, there are some complaints about pain that did not go away even after resting, so researcher was interested in conducting research on factors associated with complaints of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of workers in the production section at PT. Gold Coin Indonesia Surabaya. This study aimed to analyze the factors associated with MSDs complaints in production workers at PT Gold Coin Indonesia Surabaya. This research was a quantitative study with observational research and a cross-sectional approach because all variables are independent (independent) and dependent (dependent) will only be assessed once at the time of the study. The study was conducted at PT Gold Coin Indonesia Surabaya in January-June 2019. The study population was 32 workers in the production department of PT. Gold Coin Indonesia with sampling techniques was using simple random sampling. The sample size was calculated using the Lemeshow formula (1997) resulting in 30 respondents. Characteristics of respondents were having an average age of 38 years with an average work period of 9 years, BMI of workers were dominated by normal and for physical fitness of the respondents were dominated in high category. The workload was dominated by high or heavy workloads, and the work climate was measured based on the work area of the respondents showing varied results, ranging from 28.7.8-31.6℃