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KMID : 0381320010400030087
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health
2001 Volume.40 No. 3 p.87 ~ p.98
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The Awareness, Knowledge and Attitude of the Employers and Employees Regarding Occupational Health Among industry with less than 5 Workers
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Kwon Ok-Sun
Chung Chee-Kyung
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Abstract
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In order to investigate the awareness, knowledge and attitude on occupational health in small industry with less than 5 workers, the self-administered questionnaire survey was carried out on 194 employers and 310 employees in 194 industries.
The results were as follows :
1.The most frequent type of industry was manufacturing(98.5%) and the industry with 1-2 workers occupied 69.0%.
2.The employers and employees recognized noise and dust as the most harmful factors.
3.The awareness rate for preventing occupational disease in employers was the highest in nothing can be done and followed by improvement of work environment and consciousness and knowledge of workers on health. Those in employees was the highest in improvement of work environment and followed by consciousness and knowledge of workers on health and interest and investment of employer on health.
4.Supplied rate of the protective equipment were 41.7% in employers and 38.1% in employees. 14.4% in employers and 9.7% in employees always wore the protective equipment and the reasons for not wearing protective equipment were inconvenient(30.4%), bothering(22.4%), not necessary(14.9%), not supplied(13.5%) in employers and employees.
5.The significant factors influencing the knowledge and attitude on occupational health were age, education level and monthly income in the point of knowledge, and monthly income in the point of attitude. If knowledge were considered as a dependent variable, knowledge is significant factor for attitude on occupational health.
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KEYWORD
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Awareness, Knowledge and Attitude, Occupational Health, under 5 Workers Industry
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