The effect of the occupational health and safety practices on the boutique production quality

Abstract

This study aims to find out: (1) the application of occupational health and safety in boutiques in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, (2) the quality of boutique productions in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, and (3) the effect of occupational safety health on the quality of boutique productions in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. This study can be categorized as an associative study using a survey method and a descriptive study related to fact collection, identification, and prediction of relationships within and between variables. The sample was selected using the random sampling technique referring to Isaac and Michael’s formulas with the error margin of 5%. From a population of 35 employees, the sample consisted of 32 employees was selected. The data were analyzed using the descriptive analysis technique. The hypothesis testing used the product-moment test. The study was conducted at Seyvia Charis Couture and Bridal Boutique, Gavrilla Fashion Studio, and Punky Rima Design of Indonesia. The results of the study are as follows. 1) The OSH application by boutiques in Yogyakarta was very good. This showed that employees and leaders have implemented occupational health and safety very well with the score of 1901 that can be categorized as very good. 2) The quality of boutique productions in Yogyakarta as a whole obtained the score of 2303 that can be categorized as very good. 3) The effect of the OSH application on productions is very strong on the stage of the production process with the correlation coefficient of 0.676 but it is getting weak on the final preparation and completion stages with the correlation coefficients of 0.426 and 0.330, respectively.