Ergonomic design interventions for improvement of shop floor working conditions in the indian small and medium scale injection molded plastic furniture manufacturing industries

Abstract

Manual labour and locally designed workplace fixtures are prevalent in Indian plastic processing industry which is highly fragmented comprising of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises MSMEs In Indian scenario investigations pertaining to workstation design and layout from a broad perspective of ergonomics occupational health and indoor work environment have not been performed till date in the shop floor of small and medium scale injection molded plastic furniture manufacturing industries Th