Occupational safety and health knowledge, practices and injury patterns among manufacturing workers at a specific factory

Zulkaple, Radhiah (2023) Occupational safety and health knowledge, practices and injury patterns among manufacturing workers at a specific factory. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Background: A good level of knowledge and practice (KP) in Occupational Safety and Health is significant to determine the cases of injury happening at a workplace. Objective: To investigate the relationship between sociodemographic factors (gender, age, working experience and education level) and level of knowledge, practice, and injury patterns regarding occupational safety and health among workers in a solvent manufacturing factory. Method: This study is a cross-sectional study that involves purposive sampling that was performed on 286 respondents. The manufacturing facility where this study was conducted produced the paints for their end product. Additionally, secondary data on injuries at this factory was gathered to examine the injury pattern between December 2021 and October 2022. Respondents were given a set of self-administered validated questionnaires to fulfil the study's objectives via Whatsapp phone application and physically on paper. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences Software (SPSS) Version 27 was used to analyze the collected data. Result and Discussion: The workers possessed a good knowledge level of occupational safety and health at their workplace. Almost all workers revealed moderate and good levels of occupational safety and health practices. There was no statistically significant association between gender, age, education level, and working experience with the level of knowledge of OSH where the showed a p-value showed (p = 0.732), (p = 0.343), (p = 0.621), and (p = 0.767) respectively. The finding pointed out that there was a statistically significant association observed between these two factors of sociodemographic characteristics which were age and education level between the level of practices on OSH with the p-values of (p=0.026) and (p=0.046) respectively. There was no statistically significant association was observed between gender and working experience with the level of practice on the OSH as the p-value showed (p=0.308) and (p=0.274), respectively. The association between knowledge- practice, knowledge-injury and practice-injury showed no significant relationship with a value of (p=0.269), (p=1.00) and (p=0.076) respectively. Over an 11-month period, three incidents were reported. All three cases had acute injuries, one of which involved a chemical hazard and the other two of which involved physical risks. There are also some issues of safety and health at the workplace that have been mentioned by the workers such as the enforcement of PPE, ergonomic problems, environmental factors, and the condition of the worker’s workstations. Conclusion: The findings of the present study clearly demonstrated that most manufacturing workers possessed a good knowledge level of occupational safety and health at their workplace. It was also noteworthy that almost all workers revealed good and moderate levels towards occupational safety and health practices. This study has demonstrated the need of this company to provide workers with safety and health training to improve their safety and health practices. Keywords: Occupational safety and health, knowledge, practices, injury pattern, manufacturing factory

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Ms Norafizah Radzuan
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2024 08:14
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2024 08:14
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1712

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