The Evaluation of Safe Operation Behavior and Working Conditions among Car Spray Painting Workers Warinchamrab Ubon Ratchathani.

Abstract

          The purposes of this research was to determine a working condition and safe operation behavior among car spray painting workers in Warinchamrab Province local garages. The cross sectional survey research design was used and the survey was done between February to December 2016, B.E. A newly designed questionnaire for safe operation behavior and population characteristic was used. The obtained data were analyzed by statistical software and presented as frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation and Fisher’s Exact Test. There were 69 male car spray painting workers participated. The participants with age 45 or less were 72.46% and the participants who had a junior high degree or less education were 81.20%. The percentage of participants who have experience for 11 years or more were 55.07. The safe operation behavior for machine or equipment use was very safe with mean score = 3.73, SD = 0.99. The work environment in the garages was good with a sufficient ventilation and clean, the safe environment mean score was 0.75, S.D. = 0.43. The study also found that the personal information and working environment conditions were not significantly correlated with safe operation behavior (p-value > .05).