ACCIDENT PERCEPTIONS AND SAFETY BEHAVIORS AT WORK AMONG AUTOMOTIVE PART INDUSTRIAL WORKERS, CHONBURI
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Accident Perceptions, Safety Behaviors at Work, Work Experience, Automotive part industryAbstract
This research investigated accident perceptions and safety behaviors at work among automotive part industrial workers. Evaluation in production department, workers who have worked for at least 3 months. Eighty workers were inquired by a questionnaire. Average age of worker was 32.05 (±8.36) years old, male was 59 (73.8%). Most of them graduated in senior high school/vocational certificate (46.3%) and Most of respondents were operator (90%). Average work experience was 5.19 (±4.68) years. The result of accident perceptions and safety behaviors at work showed the positive correlation with significant (r=0.341, p<0.001). For the personal information including gender, education and work experience had significant difference (p<0.05) with accident perceptions at work and safety behaviors. Particularly, long experience workers had more perception of advantages and also obstacle for accident prevention practices. For the suggestion of this study is teaching or promoting to preventive accident activities are not sufficient to strengthen safety behaviors. This should be done along with Enforcing safety rules, regulations and measures to break the errors actions from workers.
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