Working Environment and Personal Protective Equipment use among Workers in Automotive Repair Shops, Muang District, Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Keywords:
Working Environment, Personal Protective Equipment, Automotive Repair ShopsAbstract
Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the working environment and personal protective equipment behaviors using among workers in automotive repair shops at Muang District, Nakhon Ratchasima Province. The samples were 114 workers comprising 50 spray painting workers and 64 maintenance technicians of 8 automotive repair shops. The samples were calculated by Cochran’s formula. The workers were recruited by using the simple random sampling method. A questionnaire was use for data collection. The statistics utilized for data analysis by descriptive statistics and chi-square test. The results showed that all workplaces had a fence or boundary, personal protective equipment at work. Many workplaces lacked a fire alarm and safety standard system (62.5 % and 50.0 %; respectively). Safety knowledge and safety attitude of the spray painting workers and maintenance technicians were not different (P>0.05). Personal protective equipment use by subjects in the two groups differed significantly (P<0.05). 46.0 % of the spray painting workers used personal protective equipment regularly compared work 48.4 % of the maintenance technicians who used personal protective equipment only sometimes.
The results suggest that the automotive repair shop owners should provide appropriate working conditions and raise awareness of the need to continuously use personal protective equipment to reduce risk and encourage safety at work.
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