Assessment of Musculoskeletal Disorders and Fatigue of Workers in Creative Industry of Carving Wood in PK Novi Cilegon, Banten

Every company tries to improve it profit continuously. Improving profit does not guarantee that health of workers will also improve. Moreover, in the activities of some industries are only profit oriented, and the health condition of workers are not considered in every work activity. It happened similarly to creative industry of carving wood, where until now ‘tatal' has become a serious problem in finishing the activity of carving wood. Some efforts are needed to minimize the inhalation of tatal dust by workers directly. The direct impact to workers are excess of muscle movements and unnatural body movement resulting musculoskeletal disorders and work fatigue. The objectives of this research are to assess musculoskeletal disorder and general worker complaints that are complemented by three assessment of aspects, that is, weakening of activity, decrease of motivation, and physical exhaustion in order to give recommendation to improvement of worker productivity and company profit. The design of this research is cross-sectional. It is a research method to study the correlation dynamics of risk factors and effects through observation approach or data collection at one time (point time approach). It means that each subject is observed only once, and the measurement is made on the subject variable status at the time of examination. Result showed that average score of musculoskeletal disorder is 58.75 ± 6.75, general fatigue is 79.5 ± 1.3, where weakening activity is 28.75 ± 4.25, decrease of motivation is 24.75 ± 4.75, and physical exhaustion is 26.00 ± 4.00. Recommendation: need of working condition improvement such as design of dust collector so that worker is healthy and performance more optimal. This improvement would impact to decrease musculoskeletal disorders and worker fatigue, and decrease the insurance cost. Keywords: Musculoskeletal disorders, fatigues, motivation, physical exhaustio