19 ERGONOMIC STUDIES ON SAFETY AND HEALTH WORK IN THE INDUSTRIAL BUILDING SYSTEM (IBS) PROJECT Muhamad Al Amin Zailani 1 and Nur Syazwani Mohd Nawi 2 1-2 School of Technology Management and Logistics, College of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 UUM Sintok, Kedah alaminzailani@gmail.com 1 , nursyazwani@uum.edu.my 2 Abstract: Ergonomic in the construction industry is a priority for construction workers to produce high quality work, good health and good comfort. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the workers’ awareness level, to identify the impact of ergonomic implementation and to investigate the strategies to improve ergonomic implementation on the safety and health work for workers in the Industrial Building System project in Perlis. This study is conducted by using qualitative research method, where the data is collected through semi-structured interview. The three respondents are the top management of the construction in Perlis. The results of this study revealed that the workers’ awareness level is high because of various steps have been taken by the government to put more important of ergonomic to the workers in the construction industry and knowledge of ergonomics within construction workers to reduce injuries or accidents in the site of the construction. The impact of ergonomics gives the workers more comfortable doing work under high pressure, reduce injuries, give the best result for the quality of work, taking care of the health, gives workers a greater sense of accomplishment and the time to complete the project can be adjusted at the appointed time as there are no accident or injuries during work. Keywords: Ergonomic, construction, awareness, strategies, injuries 1. INTRODUCTION Ergonomic is a significant factor in achieving and maintaining the productivity and safety of employees (Roper & Yeh, 2007). Ergonomic also is a study conducted in relation to people at work scientifically (Mustafa et al., 2009). Usually workers carry out their work in standing, sitting and alternating sitting. Such a position within a period of time length has led to discomfort and fatigue among workers (Zein et al., 2015.) In Malaysia, it has occupational safety and health policy, it is not enforced by the authorities. The main problem related to workers safety and health issues is the attitude of the workers. Most of them do not comply with the rules set out (Samewoi & Misnan, 2010). Therefore, the focus of this research is to examine the workers’ awareness level of ergonomics, to identify the impact of ergonomic implementation in the workplace and also to investigate the strategies to improve ergonomic implementation of safety and health work in the Industrial Building System (IBS) project. Hence, this study was undertaken in order to study the ergonomics on safety and health work in the IBS project in the construction industry. 2. METHODOLOGY This study was used qualitative research method. Semi-structured interview is aligning in this research study. It covers 3 sections use to acquire data from 3 respondents from construction companies in Perlis. In addition, this study involves in searching some information from the secondary data that are related from journal, article, internet, and reports.