Safety and health performance of edible oil factory workers in Bintulu

Voon, Chun Wei (2007) Safety and health performance of edible oil factory workers in Bintulu. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to determine the safety and health performance of edible oil factory workers in Bintulu. The research was conducted in the edible oil factory in Bintulu in August 2006 using method of questionnaire and collected 40 responses. The data was analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). In this research, the forms of questionnaire were randomly distributed to edible oil factory workers at factory sites. The collected data in this research are 75 % male and 25% female, most of them are unmarried, young workers with age around 20 until 35 years old and graduated from secondary school. Regarding the health conditions, there were several health problems which are frequently happened, such as dizzy, eye pain, skin problem, hard to breath, headache, backache, muscle pain, joint pain, neck pain, ear pain, throat pain, leg pain and hand pain. Dizzy was one of the most common and most costly health problem related to occupational risk factors. Regarding the safety conditions although, the company has supplied the personal protective equipment (P.P.E) for the workers, and also has paid attention to increase the awareness of safety and health of workers, the fact showed that there are more than half of the workers (58%) who still uncommon to wear safety goggle, safety musk and safety ear plugs. But, they have been used to wear safety shoes, safety helmet and safety gloves. According to analysis of variance and hypothesis testing of the association between selected category and safety and health of perfonnance score, there is an association . between variable gender and safety and health of performance. Meanwhile for others variable, such as age, marital status and educational background, the result show there are no associations between these variables and safety and health of performance. This phenomenon shows that the safety and health problems can happen to the workers with any age, marital status and educational background. So, the awareness of safety and health must be enhanced at any age, marital status and educational background.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences
Depositing User:	Mr. Azman Mohamad
Date Deposited:	17 Dec 2024 07:18
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2024 07:18
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/2309

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