nternational Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE) ISSN: 2278-3075, Volume-8 Issue-11, September 2019 790 Published By: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication Retrieval Number K14670981119/2019©BEIESP DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.K1467.0881119 The rapid development of industrial field giving a huge impact to the society or even in organizations however total number of accident is currently increase due to the lack awareness about the important of safety and health issue. This study focusing on safety and health issue and safety improvement at Palm Oil Mill at East Malaysia. The mill is produce two products which are crude oil and kernels. In order to identify the hazards in this mill, several methods had been used such as questionnaires distribution, interview session, observations, safety audit and body discomfort survey. Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment, and Risk Analysis (HIRARC) model were used in this study. The data collected and recorded for the risk and ergonomic assessments. Risk and ergonomic assessment is conducted after the hazards being identified in all 6 stations of Palm Oil Mill with total 33 activities were analyzed. Quantitative risk assessment was used by considering the likelihood and severity of the hazards. The values of risk were determined based on the table of likelihood and severity. All the hazards identified is sort into station and level of risk. The hazards with high value of risk is considered as the problem identification. Comprehensive discussion and analysis were done on the top three (3) high risk activities. The ergonomic assessments which are Rapid entire body assessment and body discomfort survey were used as a tools to support finding. HIRARC model has successful being used to analyze the hazard and risk exposure on the palm oil mill and action need to be taken on the high risk activities to prevent from an accident. Keywords : Ergonomic, REBA, HIRARC, Palm Oil Mill I. INTRODUCTION The development of agriculture in Malaysian brought the increasing of performance in palm oil industry. Palm oil production is the among main sector in Malaysia and Malaysia also is one of the largest production in the world [1]. In Malaysia, there is more than 40% of oil palm plantation holds by the private company. In the year 2016, Malaysian Palm oil Board reported the oil palm planted in Malaysia up to 5.74 million which mean increased 1.7% from the 5.64 Revised Manuscript Received on September 2, 2019. Nor Hasrul Akhmal Ngadiman*,School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, 81310 Malaysia. Rajamuddin Mansur,School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, 81310 Malaysia. Rozlina Md Sirat, School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, 81310 Malaysia. Mohd Firdaus Mohd Taib,School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, 81310 Malaysia. Azanizawati Ma’aram,School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, 81310 Malaysia. million hectares from the previous year. There have increasing of new oil palm plantation at Malaysia, especially in Sarawak where it shows the increase by 4.7% of planted oil palm. The biggest area of oil palm planted still in Sabah state with 1.55 million hectares followed by Sarawak 1.51 million hectares. However, in peninsular Malaysia had recorded 2.68 million hectares of oil palm planted in 11 states ( MPOB, 2017). Table 1, shows the amount of palm oil production from the Malaysia compared with the others countries produce palm oil [2]. Table 1 : Top Palm Oil Producing Countries in The World [2] In the year 2016, dry weather due to the EL-Nino phenomena was cause the production of crude palm oil decreasing. CPO production drop 13% with 17.32 million tonnes compared with 19.96 million tonnes in previous year. However, due to the high quality of CPO production export value palm oil product in 2016 increase to RM64.58 billion from RM63.2 billion in 2015. One of the aspect to have high quality of product, comes from the high performance of Mill and refineries. MPOB recorded that in Malaysian, the total mills is about 454 with the capacity operations exceeded 111,966,200 tonnes per year. The high capacity of CPO production was come from Peninsular Malaysia with 57,178,000 followed by Sabah 33,679,200 and Sarawak with 21,109,000 tonnes of CPO production. The total refineries in Malaysia are 53 and the capacity exceeded 27,669,171 tonnes per year. The largest amount of product shows the high performance and technologies were implemented in the refinery makes the process more hygiene and produce high quality of product. Malaysian Palm Oil Board, MPOB shows the result of number of fresh fruit bunch (FFB) mills at Sabah is 129 mills and the capacity in operations exceeded 33,679,200 tonnes per year. Safety and Risk Evaluation using HIRARC Model at Palm Oil Mill Nor Hasrul Akhmal Ngadiman, Rajamuddin Mansur , Rozlina Md Sirat , Mohd Firdaus Mohd Taib, Azanizawati Ma’aram Rank Country Production (in metric tons) 1 Indonesia 3,60,00,000 2 Malaysia 2,10,00,000 3 Thailand 22,00,000 4 Colombia 13,20,000 5 Nigeria 9,70,000 6 World 58,800,000