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Baba Md Deros

Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

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Research ArticleOpen accessEFFECTIVENESS OF A PARTICIPATORY ACTION ORIENTED TRAINING INTERVENTION APPROACH AMONG HARVESTERS IN OIL PALM PLANTATIONNg Yee Guan, Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin, Ismi Arif Ismail et al.Consistent with the global demand for palm oil, the intensified upstream harvesting activities of oil palms’ fresh fruit bunches, despite the harvesters evidences of various ergonomics risk factors leading to musculoskeletal disorders should be a cause for concern. Thus, this study describes the effectiveness of a modified and locally adapted Participatory Action-Oriented Training intervention program in improving the working environment … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 4 · 8 Feb 2014 · 8,980 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessCONFORMITY TO OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS IN MALAYSIAN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISESBaba Md Deros, Ahmad Rasdan Ismail, Jaharah A. Ghani, Mohd Yusri Mohd YusofRegulation on occupational safety and health in Malaysia had evolved from the prescriptive factory and machinery act to a self-regulated occupational safety and health act. However, from the authors’ observation the high standards of occupational safety and health culture that surpass the legal requirement were not widely practiced by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The two main objectives of this … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 20 Jan 2014 · 7,519 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessAn Ergonomics Study on Assembly Line Workstation DesignBaba Md Deros, Nor Kamaliana Khamis, Ahmad Rasdan Ismail et al.Problem statement: High demand for products in the manufacturing industry had driven the human workers to work faster and adapt to their un-ergonomically designed workstation. Some tasks at assembly workstations require human workers to stand for a prolonged period of time to assemble the products. Approach: This study was conducted at an automotive component manufacturer. Twenty full time workers working … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 11 · 8 Oct 2011 · 9,992 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessImplementation of 5S Practices in the Manufacturing Companies: A Case StudyMohd Nizam Ab Rahman, Nor Kamaliana Khamis, Rosmaizura Mohd Zain et al.Problem statement: 5S practice is one of the techniques to improve quality environment, health and safety at the workplace. Evaluation of 5S practice can be done through implementation of 5S audit at each division in the company. Approach: Through 5S audit, it enables each company to identify the potential level of quality improvement and at the same time can analyze … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 8 · 31 Aug 2010 · 21,441 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIntegration of Comfort into a Driver's Car Seat Design Using Image AnalysisDarliana Mohamad, Baba Md Deros, Dzuraidah Abdul Wahab et al.Problem statement: The purposes of this study are twofold: First, to recommend a range of angles for driving posture comfort from measurement of participants and second, to investigate the relationships between drivers' anthropometric characteristics, comfortable postural angles and seat adjustment. Approach: Forty five participants were involved in the study. Both anthropometric data and postural angles were measured and recorded by … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2010 · 7,831 accessesView PDF Cite