The purpose of this study was to determine the level of ergonomic knowledge and safety among contractor of a selected construction site located in Georgetown, Penang. The study also tried to identify the restrictions in imple- menting ergonomic and safety programs in the workplace. Prior to the study, a field investigation were conducted by the researcher and the researcher found out that workers are practicing poor body posture in the site and thus decided to conduct this study. Data were collected primarily from a questionnaire and the data were analyzed using Mann-Whitney test due to the small sample size which only involved 35 respondents. Results from the study shows respondents have high in ergonomic knowledge (p=0.962,>0.05). Several factors restricting the implementation of ergonomic programs are “lack of management support” and “lack of information and training”.