A study on the level of awareness on ergonomic factors among government employees in Wisma Persekutuan, Kuantan, Pahang / Noor Azam Halim, Shahirah Shamsuddeen and Dayana Saidi

Ergonomic can be interpreted as the application of scientific knowledge to the workplace in order to improve the well being and efficiency of both the individual and the organization. The goal of an ergonomics program is to achieve a balance between work and the workers that will optimize productivity and, at the same time, preserve the health and safety of the workforce. In Malaysia, ergonomics is still very new but for the European countries ergonomic had been part of their life and more than that workers and employers of government agencies were not aware about the aspect of ergonomic in their workplace. A study was conducted to investigate the level of ergonomic awareness among government employees in Wisma Persekutuan, Kuantan, Pahang. Questionnaire was prepared and a research had been conducted with the staff of Wisma Persekutuan. The result shows that the respondents aware of certain elements of ergonomic such chair but for certain element such color and carpet they did not aware and the reasons why the respondents not aware about ergonomic are such lack of exposure, did not know the benefits of ergonomic, less of reading on ergonomic materials, and ergonomic is not very implemented in government agencies.