THE OBSTACLE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF ERGONOMICS SAFETY AND HEALTH PROGRAM IN ENTERPRISES

Safety and health are the basic rights of the workers and one of the requirement to increased the
worker’s productivity. Beside that safety and  health constitute requirement for winning free
competition in the globalization and Asean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA), World Trade
Organization (WTO) and Asia Pacific Economic Community (APEC). So that to followed free
trade competition, safety and health program must be implemented in all working places. The
ergonomics, not only increased the healthy and safety of the workers, but also increased the
productivity. If the ergonomics safety and health can be implemented in the enterprises the safety
and health and productivity of the workers will be increased. Although the implementation of the
ergonomics  safety and health principle in the enterprises had been applied and improved the
healthy, safety and productivity of the workers but the implementation in the enterprises
especially in the small and medium enterprises  are still far from expectation.
There are many  obstacles were found  such as: 1) the result of the ergonomics, safety and health implementation still in
form of healthy, safety, comfort, efisien and the increases of  productivity, but not yet showed in
form of money (industrial language); 2) enterprises management  took the lower priority to the
ergonomics, safety and health program in operation of the enterprises;  3) the program of the
ergonomics safety and health dominan in form of curative action compared with preventive and
promotive; 4) other factors such as less of  management and workers knowledge about safety and
health, limited of capital, less of control and low enforcement of the government. So that the
implementation of the ergonomics safety and health program should be attained the benefit in
form of money not only to the workers but also to the enterprises. Control and low enforcement
of the governement should be tightening and continued.