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KMID : 0606019950010010095
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Soonchunhyang Journal of Industrial Medicine
1995 Volume.1 No. 1 p.95 ~ p.0
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A Study on the Knowledge and Attitude of Woman Workers in Occupational Health
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Abstract
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For the purpose of obtaining basic information for the implementation of occupation health service for women workers, the knowledge and attitude questionnaire study was carried out on 587 woman workers who were working in textile, machinery,
chemical
and other industries in Chuan area.
@ES The results of this of this study were as follows :
@EN 1. While more than 50% of woman workers in textile, machinery and chemical industries worked 44 hours per week, higher proportion woman workers in other industries worked more than 48 hours per week.
2. The joining rate of trade union of workers was 68.5%, but the active participation rate was low regardless of type of industries.
3. While 48% of workers in textile industries thought their health as good condition, only 29.3% of workers in chemical industries thought their health as good one. The rate of women in good health was higher in workers whose age were under 30
than
those over 30.
4. While 55.2% of total workers answered their working conditions as normal, only 17.9% of workers did that their working condition were in good and bad condition.
5. Television was the most important source of information for occupational disease and hearing from colleague was next important source. On the other hand, 20.6% of workers answered that they never hear the word "occupational disease".
6. While 53.7% of workers thought that improvement of working condition is the most important method for the prevention of occupational disease and 13.4% of workers thought that annual health examination is the most. On the other hand in 2.4% of
workers thought that there was no method to prevent occupational diseases.
7. While 68.3% of total workers did not receive any kind of health education, 77.3% of workers in chemical industries did not receive it. The most wanted content of health education as the provision of general health & disease, and the second
one
was
safety of workplace & first aid, and the third one was the occupational diseases.
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