Ergonomic Assessment of Personal Protective Equipment for COVID-19 in the Philippines

Kishimoto, R.; Prasetyo, Y. T.

Wearing of personal protective equipment during this health crisis as COVID-19 interrupts the living of the people from different parts of the country. Having a PPE is a must since reopening of different businesses is on-going due to lockdown as implemented by the government. PPE should be worn by an individual as comfortable as they can. This paper will assess the comfortability rate of PPE used for COVID-19 using the likert scale. This will reveal how comfortable as an individual as they are going to wear his/her PPE based on their nature of work. From 30 respondents who accessed the online survey provided by the researcher and listed the PPE used for COVID-19. There are 30 respondents who accessed the online survey provided by the researcher. These individuals consists of 16 (53.3%) are students and individuals came from different nature of work in which 6 (20%) are education-based professionals, 2 (6.7%) are medical practitioner, 1 (3.3%) working on production based, 1 (3.3%) working as an accounting staff in hospital, 1 (3.3%) working in a company as sales representative, 1 (3.3%) as a senior administrative assistant and 1 (3.3%) as a customer associate. As a result of this study, it shows that there are individuals who experiences a very discomfort with their PPE. PPE should not only protect the individual but also it should be comfortable once they used it. © 2020 IEEE.