To study the effects of workers' health status on the recognition about their work environment, a self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted to some factory workers in Inchon, October 1991. And the results of evaluation of work
environment,
screening examination were added and combined into one data set with the questionnaire survey data.
The workers' recognition of work environment were measured by 5-point scale to each hazards, such as dust, noise, organic solvent, heavy metal, toxic gas, and general environment. Major workers responded that the hazards, especially dust and
noise
they
recognized were harmful to their health. With the multiple regression analysis, workers' health status was astatistically significant variable to explain the recognition about their work environment. The worse a worker's health status was the
more
he
recognized the hazards were harmful to his health. And of control variables, daily work hours, annual days of absence, union participation, past injury, or illness, satisfaction about health service were significant variables accounting for the
workers'
recognition about work environment.
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