Implementing Safety Engineering Principles For A Medical Device Manufacturer To Minimize Workplace Injury

Proper and adequate lighting plays an important role at workplaces, which can significantly enhance or worsen workplace safety and productivity. Vision is one of the major senses in a human body that directly affects tasks and activities. Thus, improving inadequate lighting does not necessarily mean to introduce more light. Installing better lights with less fixtures but more illumination could prove to be a cheaper and more effective alternative. This project revolves around enhancing the current lighting conditions through the introduction of a smart lighting system with integrated LEDs providing safer and more effective lighting while utilizing the application of various safety engineering and illumination methods, principles and techniques at a medical device manufacturing plant in order to minimize workplace near misses, reduce overall energy consumption and improve productivity. Three artificial lighting methods were experimented one by one each for one month and their yielded results were compared against each other for the three defined dependent variables. The enhancement project yielded significant results in the form of decreased number of near misses, reduced annual energy consumption, and increased worker efficiency as compared to those of the previous conditions.