Health Promotion in South African Construction

Deacon, Claire; Smallwood, John

doi:10.1142/s1609945103000352

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“…George (2006) Businesses dependent on migrant labour will be seriously affected by HIV/AIDS (Whiteside and Sunter, 2000) as HIV-prevalence rates are considerably higher in those who travel for employment (ICAD, 2004). The migratory employment of construction employees thus contributes to industry vulnerability (Haupt et al ., 2005a) as the nature of migrant employment places workers in conditions that promote poor lifestyle choices (Deacon and Smallwood, 2003). This increases their risk of contracting HIV while simultaneously often removing them from the proximity of healthcare facilities (ICAD, 2004).…”

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Perceptions of HIV/AIDS policies and treatment programmes by Western Cape construction firms

Bowen

Cattell

Edwards

et al. 2010

Construction Management and Economics

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The HIV/AIDS pandemic poses a substantial long-term threat to economic development in South Africa. A questionnaire survey explored the perceptions of a sample of construction firms in the Western Cape regarding HIV/AIDS policy and treatment programmes. The findings show that there is no universal view about the long-term threat of HIV/AIDS. Most organizations have awareness policies in place but prevention and treatment policies are less common. Treatment programmes are the least implemented of all intervention services due to insufficient resource capacity, the potential stigmatization of infected persons, and low take-up rates. Despite an acknowledgement of the benefits flowing from mounting treatment programmes, doubt exists as to their financial viability.HIV/AIDS, treatment programmes, construction organizations, South Africa,

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Perceptions of HIV/AIDS policies and treatment programmes by Western Cape construction firms

Bowen

Cattell

Edwards

et al. 2010

Construction Management and Economics

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“…On the contrary, in Britain the estimated cost of deaths and injuries at work falls between £3.3 and 6.5 billion annually; of which between £910M and 3,710M comes from accidental damage to property and equipment (HSE, 2006d). Over and above-financial savings and in a construction context specifically, perceived benefits of improved H&S include lower employee absenteeism, increased productivity and improved quality of product (Deacon and Smallwood, 2003). Of course, the impact of H&S incidents extends far beyond business boundaries; they also have a significant social impact (Cormack et al, 2006).…”

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Construction workers' health and safety knowledge

Edwards

Holt²

2008

Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology

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ABSTRAK Abstract Indonesia is a country with a record of accidents is quite high. The cause of high numbers is the implementation and supervision of OHS. Safety behavior is a safe working behavior of potential hazards. The factors that make up safety behavior are work experience, belief, knowledge, and attitude.The purpose of this research is to know the correlation between knowledge and attitudes toward safety behavior is carried out on the worker of lecturer residential development project of University X Ponorogo from June to August 2017. This research is a descriptive research with quantitative approach. Method is a cross sectional study. The sample of this study amounted to 50 people with the technique of determining the total sampling. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between work experience with knowledge in construction worker of University X. As well as the belief in the fate of the worker with the knowledge. There is a significant relationship between work experience and worker attitude. As well as a significant relationship between the belief in the fate of the workers and the safety attitude to the construction worker of University X. However, there is no significant correlation between knowledge and safety attitude with safety behavior in construction worker of University X, because there is no enabling factor in the form of worker support facility to carry out safety behavior in their workplace. Abstrak Indonesia adalah negara dengan catatan kecelakaan yang cukup tinggi. Penyebab tingginya angka tersebut adalah pelaksanaan dan pengawasan K3. Perilaku keselamatan adalah perilaku kerja yang aman dari potensi bahaya. Faktor-faktor yang membentuk perilaku keselamatan adalah pengalaman kerja, kepercayaan, pengetahuan, dan sikap. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan antara pengetahuan dan sikap terhadap perilaku keselamatan yang dilakukan terhadap pekerja proyek pengembangan hunian dosen Universitas X Ponorogo dari bulan Juni sampai Agustus 2017. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Metode penelitian adalah cross sectional. Sampel penelitian ini berjumlah 50 orang dengan teknik penentuan total sampling. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada hubungan yang signifikan antara pengalaman kerja dengan pengetahuan pekerja konstruksi Universitas X. Serta kepercayaan terhadap nasib pekerja dengan pengetahuan. Ada hubungan yang signifikan antara pengalaman kerja dan sikap pekerja. Serta hubungan yang signifikan antara kepercayaan terhadap nasib pekerja dan sikap keselamatan pekerja konstruksi Universitas X. Namun, tidak ada hubungan yang signifikan antara pengetahuan dan sikap keselamatan dengan perilaku keselamatan pada pekerja bangunan Universitas X, karena tidak ada faktor pemungkin dalam bentuk fasilitas pendukung pekerja untuk melakukan perilaku keselamatan di tempat kerja mereka. Kata kunci: belief experience knowledge attitudes safety Behavior

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