Analisis Beban Kerja Karyawan pada Bagian Sortasi di PT. Perkebunan Nusantara X, Kabupaten Jember

Abstract

PT. Perkebunan Nusantara X Kertosari Field, Jember Regency is an agroindustry company that produces high quality tobacco leaves. PT Perkebunan Nusantara X workers in Kertosari Gardens have different position of work such as sorting, transporting and distributing materials with variation of work position (standing and sitting) that it can create workload. Workload problems can be effect on concentration, performance, product quality, and occupational health. These studies aims are to be determining the worker physiological and psychological workload with standing and sitting positions and providing recommendations to reduce workload in the sorting section. The method is the measurement of physical workload using the pulse manually which is done 3 times namely before work (DNI), work (DNK), and at rest (recovery) then calculated with % CVL. The results obtained by % CVL workers aged 20 - 40 years with standing work positions are more dominant experiencing physical workload with a value of > 30%. In addition, the method used to measure mental workload is NASA-TLX with two stages, namely the weighting stage and the rating stage. The result obtained by the WWL value of workers aged 20 years and 40 years is > 80 so that it has a medium to severe mental workload.