The Effect of Awkward Postures and Musculoskeletal Disorder Incidents: A Case Study of Bakery Workers

Musculoskeletal complaints or MSDs are common in the bakery industry. Observations and analyses of work posture among bakers crucial to determine most practical solution MSD subjective complaints. This study aims analyze impact on musculoskeletal events industry workers. research is quantitative with a cross-sectional approach. recruited 52 bakers. Work data was obtained by utilizing Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) instrument. The complaint were collected using Nordic Map (NBM) results indicated that workers (90.4%) young category, 67.3% male, 51.9% had long permanent contract. Most respondents high ergonomic risk category (75%). lower back (63.5%), neck (25%), ankle (25%) subjectively reported NBM There no significant relationship between (p-value = 0.721 at α 0.05). exposed limitations experienced some However, association found non-significant finding might be related small sample size measurement bias.