Introduction: The sprawling of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the developing world provides several challenges to ensuring health and safety practices among workers in the urban poor. Purpose: The main objective of the study will be to determine the knowledge of physical hazards and the use of PPEs based demographic characteristics among welders in Embakasi constituency, Nairobi County. Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted among 214 welders from 72 workshops in the Embakasi region, namely in Kariobangi South Light Industries, Kayole, and Umoja. Data collection procedure entailed observation, focus group discussions, and interviews with welders in Embakasi, Nairobi. Data were analysed using SPSS version 22 and both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were conducted to explain the association between the study variables. Results: The study indicated that 90.2% of welders knew the activities at the workplace that pose health hazards. Welders’ knowledge of physical hazards at their workplace was significantly associated with experience (Fishers Exact Test =45.025, p = .05), number of hours worked per day (Fishers Exact Test = 9.322, p = .05), and PPE use (c2 = 3.884, df = 1, p = .05). Conclusion: Factors such as age, earning a level, hours per day worked, level of education, type of training, and knowledge of physical hazards or PPE use are significantly associated with self-reported injuries among welders.
Taenia solium Taeniasis is an important zoonotic food borne intestinal parasitic disease causing abdominal pains, diarrhea and stunting in children. Humans get the infection on consumption of raw or under cooked infected pig meat with metacercode larvae or contaminated food and water. Adult worm is found in the intestines of humans, eggs are shed in feces constituting environmental contamination. Disease occurs worldwide but it is endemic where pigs are raised in free range system. A total of three hundred and eighty four stool samples were collected from 386 (163 males and 223 females) randomly selected adult members of the community members in Thika, Kiambu in 2016 for parasitological evaluation by microscopy for T. solium eggs. Each study participant signed an informed consent and provided one stool sample. Twenty six of the participants both males and females were found to be positive for T. solium eggs indicating an overall prevalence of 6.74%. Significant associations were observed in relation to latrine use (X 2 =43.406, p value =0.000), method of pork preparation (X 2 =10.271, p value=0.006), and frequency of deworming at (X 2 18.275, p value=0.000). Taenia solium taeniasis is present in the community and in relatively high prevalence.
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