Effects of participatory activities and safety perception on work safety behaviors: case study among employees of an ink product manufacturing plant, Samut Sakhon Province
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https://doi.org/10.14456/dcj.2024.25Keywords:
participation, safety perception, work safety behavior, printing ink factoryAbstract
This research was a quasi-experimental study, one group pertest-posttest design, aimed at comparing the level of safety perception and work safety behaviors before and after participation in the activities. The participatory activities included planning, setting goals, making decisions, providing information, determining work procedures, and evaluation. Data were collected from 25 employees of a printing ink factory located in Samut Sakhon province using questionnaire and behavior observation form. Data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Results found that the sample group has planned and selected their target behavior which had the potential to cause an accident or near miss. There were three risky behaviors that all of participants had in common. These included the behavior of not clamping the ground wire on the tank to prevent the generation of static electricity, not wearing safety shoes, and not wearing chemical protection masks. The results of the comparison between safety perception and work safety behavior before and after the experiment were found to have a statistically significant difference at p <0.05. Therefore, the employer should take safety promotion seriously so as to encourage the employees to have the correct safety awareness and continually develop work safety behaviors using the participatory approach. These will lead to the development of sustainable organizational safety culture.
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