Workers' Information and Opinions on Worker Health and Work Safety.

Background: Workers must be aware of what is happening around and their behavior is going on unsafe in terms of work safety. Workers was not trained about negative impacts to the health of his work and the work itself about the hazards posed are not easy that workers can improve the high performance...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Caring Sciences Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 1681 - 1691
Autores principales: Gungormus, Zeynep, Karadag, Gulendam, Yildiz, Esra
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: International Journal of Caring Sciences 2018
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          Gungormus, Zeynep
          Karadag, Gulendam
          Yildiz, Esra
        affil: Assoc. Prof., Department of Public Health Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gazıantep Universty, Gazıantep, Turkey
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          Blue Collar Workers Psychosocial Factors
          Occupational Health Education
          Occupational Safety Education
          Health Knowledge
          Employee Attitudes
          Human
          Male
          Female
          Adolescence
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Turkiye
          Cross Sectional Studies
          Descriptive Research
          Stratified Random Sample
          Questionnaires
          Data Analysis Software
          Accidents, Occupational Risk Factors
          Accidents, Occupational Prevention and Control
          Occupational Diseases Prevention and Control
          Occupational Safety Legislation and Jurisprudence
          Occupational Health Legislation and Jurisprudence
          Protective Devices Utilization
          Scales
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Male
          Female
      ab: Background: Workers must be aware of what is happening around and their behavior is going on unsafe in terms of work safety. Workers was not trained about negative impacts to the health of his work and the work itself about the hazards posed are not easy that workers can improve the high performance and efficiency. Objective: The aim of this descriptive study is to assess workers' opinions on worker health and safety and inservice education situations. Methodology: Population of the study consisted workers textile, cement, sugar and furniture factory working in Erzurum. 413 workers who selected using stratified sampling method and accepted to participate in the study were included in scope of the study. Data was collected using the questionnaire, containing descriptive characteristics of workers, and the occupational health and safety scale. Results: Most of (88.9%) the workers, use their personal equipment when necessary; 78.9% have never experienced an occupational accident; 55.7% of those who had an occupational accident experienced this accident due to environmental factors. Moreover; it is detected that 88.4% of the workers had in-service trainings; 45.8% have had these trainings regularly and that field of in-service trainings is generally 'methods of protection from accidents (67.6%)'. It is determined that 36.8% of workers do not have necessary information regarding professional diseases and are partially informed related to laws and regulations of occupational health and safety. Conclusions: In the present study, it was determined that majority of workers have positive opinions on worker health and work safety and in-service training.
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