Correlation Between Age, Work Period, Knowledge, and Attitude’s Workers With Behavior on The Use of PPE

Cynthia Widyawati,Indriati Paskarini

doi:10.20527/jbk.v7i2.10891

Cynthia Widyawati, Indriati Paskarini

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https://doi.org/10.20527/jbk.v7i2.10891

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PG. Poerwodadie is one of the white crystal sugar factories left by the Dutch East Indies. In the production process with a fairly high risk of work accidents, the company provides Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). However, most workers have not complied with the use of PPE in the work area. Therefore, it is necessary to research factors related to non-compliance with the use of PPE. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between age, years of service, education, and attitudes with workers who were not obedient in using PPE. This research uses quantitative with the cross-sectional approach. The population in this study were all workers at the PG. Poerwodadie manufacturing station totals 80 people. The study concludes that there was a relationship between the age of workers and non-compliance with the use of PPE with the value of Phi and Cramer's V = 0.337. There was a relationship between the working period and non-compliance with the use of PPE with a value of 0.329. There was a relationship between worker knowledge and non-compliance with the use of PPE with the value = 0.279. There was no relationship between worker attitudes and non-compliance with the use of PPE

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The Social Security Administration Agency (BPJS) for Manpower state that 147,000 occupational accidents or 40,237 cases per day occur throughout 2018 in Indonesia
Based on table 8, the results show that respondents with good knowledge of Protective Equipment (PPE) were mostly compliant in using PPE
The study results showed a correlation between worker age and PPE compliance (Personal Protective Equipment) in the manufacturing station at PG

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The Social Security Administration Agency (BPJS) for Manpower state that 147,000 occupational accidents or 40,237 cases per day occur throughout 2018 in Indonesia. About 4,678 cases (3.18%) cause disability and 2,575 cases (1.75%) result in death. Each accident is a loss, which is reflected in the expenses and the accident cost. The costs for accidents are often very high, even though these costs are the burden of a company, society, and country. In 2018, according to the Employment Social Security Administration Agency (BPJS), the cost for occupational accidents was 1.2 Trillion Rupiah. The World Labor Organization (ILO) state that occupational accidents cause a state to lose approximately 4 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or US$ 1,251,353 million due to financing work-related injuries, deaths, and illnesses[1]

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