This study was performed to find out factors affecting degree of satisfaction with workers´ working environment. The study subjects were 165 workers who were working at painting process of twelve furniture manufacturing factories in Incheon area. We used self-administered questionnaire containing general characteristics, working conditions, the degree of satisfaction with working environment, and the degree of satisfaction with working condition. In addition, we measured the exposure levels of occupational hazardous agents.
The results were as follows;
1. Correlations between the degree of satisfaction with workers´ working environment and the measured of occupational hazardous agents did not affect the degree of satisfaction with workers´ working environment.
2. Factors affecting the degree of satisfaction with workers´ working environment were not the exposure levels of occupational hazardous agents, but the degree of satisfaction with working condition, size of industry, health status, and types of ventilation system.
As the degree of satisfaction with working condition was increased, the degree of satisfaction with working environment was increased. Also, for the workers who had good health status, the degree of satisfaction with work environment was appeared to be high.
To increase the degree of satisfaction, with workers´ working environment, firstly, effective work management and production control are required. Also, the worker´s effort to negotiate continuously with top manager on improving working conditions is required. Secondly, developing heath promotion program to be appropriate for the characteristics of worksite is required. Moreover, leading worker´s participation in health promotion program is very important to increase the degree of satisfaction with workers´ working environment.
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