ANALYSIS OF THE POSTURE OF AN ERGONOMIC WORK POSITION, IN THE MEDICAL RECORDS SECTION AT THE HOSPITAL CIREMAI ARMY CIREBON, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA

This study is about analyzing the posture of medical record officers in storing and retrieving documents on shelves at Ciremai Hospital, Cirebon City, West Java, Indonesia. The analysis taken into account is the working conditions and the height of the workpiece using the Rapid upper limb assessment (RULA) and Ovako Working Posture Analysis (OWAS) methods. The object to be examined is the employee who performs the process of taking medical record documents on the top shelf. The purpose of this research is to get the current job position and find an ergonomic job position by using virtual environment modeling. The results showed an ergonomic pose with the back not bent to the side and the heel of the foot not bent, due to the help of a medical ladder, and the neck was not turned up and not bent to the side. With this posture, RULA 3 and OWAS 1 values are obtained.