Factor associated with work safety behaviors among garbage workers in a municipality, Pathum Thani province
Keywords:
garbage workers, safety behaviors, relationship, factors, municipalityAbstract
The cross-sectional descriptive research was aimed to study the factors associated with work safety behaviors among 97 garbage workers in a municipality, Pathum Thani province. The volunteer's data, acting as the data of the sample group were collected by questionnaires. The relationship between the factors and work safety behaviors was analyzed by the Chi-square test and Fisher’s Exact test. The results revealed that garbage workers were mostly men (94.85%), with 43.55 years average aging, and 7.15 years mean of working experience. the mean of work experience was 7 years. There were inappropriate on 57.73% for safety knowledge, 53.61% for attitude, and there were appropriate on 58.76% for perception, and 52.58% for behaviors, respectively. In the association analysis, the factor of safety attitude had a significant association with the factor of work safety behaviors (p<0.01). The result of this study could recommend that the municipality should provide safety activities to improve work safety behaviors among garbage workers.
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