Assessment of hazard, risk and control in selected seven workstations palm oil mills

Mohamed Hadi, Hafiz (2014) Assessment of hazard, risk and control in selected seven workstations palm oil mills. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: Workers in the palm oil mills are regularly confronted with a variety of hazards. However, there is less studies has been done to identify the intensity of that particular hazard. Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the type of hazards, risk categories, type of risk control and effect of sterilizer technology in the five palm oil mills. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 172 respondents involving five palm oil mills. The DOSH guidelines of Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment and Risk Control (HIRARC) was used in this study. Results and Discussion: The highest type of hazard recorded in the palm oil mills are physical (51.1%) and ergonomic (20.4%). Meanwhile, the comparison on the type of hazard shows significance difference (pc0.05) in physical, chemical, and ergonomic. However, there is no statistically significant difference in biological and psychosocial hazards. The percentage of low risk categories in all mills recorded (81.4%), medium risk (18%) and high risk (0.6%). Similarly, the risk categories indicate that there is a statistically significant differences (pc0.05) of low, medium and high risk for each workstation. In term of risk control, the most preferred approach used was administrative control (55.7%). personal protective equipment (34.9%) and engineering control (9.4%). The outcome of substitution, engineering, administrative, and PPE show a statistically significant different (pc0.05). The comparison between sterilizer technology shows that horizontal sterilizer (HS) has the highest percentages of hazards (52.5%) followed by vertical (VS) (19.2%), compact modular continuous (CMC) (15%) and continuous sterilizer (CS) (13.3%). Majority of the hazard risk in the sterilizer falls into low risk categories (87.6%), followed by medium (8.6%) and high risk (3.8%). Conclusions: In a nutshell, for hazard comparison, the highest type of hazard was physical and ergonomic. In term of risk categories, majority of the hazards fall into low risk categories. In the aspect of risk control, administrative control was the preferred approach. Comparison for the sterilizer technology indicates that horizontal sterilizer as the most hazardous work area and majority of the hazard in the sterilizer can be classified into low risk categories. Keywords: HIRARC, Hazard, Risk, Control, Workstation

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Ms. Adni Syuhaida Zon
Date Deposited:	23 Nov 2022 03:20
Last Modified:	21 Mar 2023 03:22
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/367

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