การศึกษาอาการไม่พึงประสงค์และผลการให้ความรู้การป้องกันอันตรายจากสิ่งคุกคามต่อสุขภาพในการทำงานของผู้ประกอบอาชีพโรงหล่อพระ อำเภอเสลภูมิ จังหวัดร้อยเอ็ด

Abstract

This semi-experimental research aimed to study the adverse symptoms and effect of harm prevention health education to health hazard on working environment among buddha foundry occupation. There were collected through questionnaires and hazard exposure prevention educated in working environmental on 40 workers. There were analyzed the descriptive statistics, differences in knowledge mean using the Paired Sample T-Test statistics by using STATA version 10.0. The results showed that most of all the adverse symptoms from chemicals were 11 persons (27.50%) in headache and dizziness on volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and descending symptoms in 10 persons (25.00%) itching, redness on the body, burning or itchy eyes, watery eyes and red eyes on calcium carbonate dust, and no adverse symptoms skeletal and musculoskeletal disorders, respectively. The level of harm prevention health education on hazard working environment preventing knowledge scale, was a statistically significant increase in the mean of knowledge after participated in the program (p-value<0.01). Recommendations: The public health official and buddha foundry enterprise owners should have measures to protect health surveillance such as ambient air measurement, promoting knowledge in preventing dangers, and strictly mask-wearing. These guidelines prevent long-term health hazards or occupation disease among buddha foundry occupation.