Knowledge, attitude, and practice of dyeing and printing workers

Paramasivam, P.; Raghavan, Premalatha Mundankandath; Srinivasan, Padmini Dasu; Kumar, Ganguli Anindya

doi:10.4103/0970-0218.74358

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“…Millions of textile workers are occupationally exposed to dyes/chemicals in the world but little is known about their knowledge towards the effects of dye/ chemicals on their health especially in the developing world, Nigeria inclusive. 17 Over 80% of the respondents in the study knew they were exposed to hazards in the workplace. This is not surprising as a good percentage of the respondents had primary school education as their lowest level of education and this could account for the high knowledge of exposure to hazards.…”

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“…A semi-structured interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge, attitude and safety practices of workers. The questions were adapted from previously validated tools with some modifications 5 , 6 , 12-16 and was translated to Hausa (the local language in the communities) and back translated to English by two different scholars. The questionnaire was administered to the textile dye workers in Hausa language by the research assistants who were trained on the objectives of the study, data tools and interpersonal communication.…”

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Determinants of knowledge and safety practices of occupational hazards of textile dye workers in Sokoto, Nigeria: a descriptive analytic study

Okafoagu

Oche

Awosan

et al. 2017

J Public Health Afr

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Textile dye workers are subject to occupational hazards on a daily basis due to exposure to precarious conditions in the workplace. This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude and safety practices and its determinants among textile dye workers in Sokoto metropolis, Nigeria. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted among 200 textile dye workers and the respondents were selected by multi stage sampling technique. Data was collected using an interviewer administered questionnaire. Data was processed using SPSS IBM version 20 and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Majority of the respondents (74.0%) had good knowledge of workplace hazards; (81.0%) had positive attitude and only 20% observed all the safety practices. Formal education (P=0.047); working less than 5 days a week (P=0.001) and permanent employment (P=0.013) were found to be determinants of respondents’ knowledge and attitude towards workplace hazards. Although the respondents had good knowledge and positive attitude, their lack of observance of safety practices brings to fore the need for direct safety instruction and training and retraining of textile dye workers on workplace hazards and safety practices.

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Determinants of knowledge and safety practices of occupational hazards of textile dye workers in Sokoto, Nigeria: a descriptive analytic study

Okafoagu

Oche

Awosan

et al. 2017

J Public Health Afr

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“…This might be due to the low awareness among the workers about the adverse health effects of noise. Other researchers found that half of the workers had positive attitude towards using PPEs and only 34% of them were using theirs during work (Paramasivam et al, 2010).…”

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“…In a study in India (Paramasivam et al, 2010), 73% of the workers had been instructed on safe methods of handling dyes. This discrepancy might be due to the fact that those workers were specifically dealing with chemicals, while our study subjects as students deal with multiple exposures and are not yet specified.…”

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Occupational Health and Safety Training: Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Among Technical Education Students

Momen

2014

Egypt. J. Occup. Med.

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Introduction: Workers represent half of the world's population. Maintaining a safe working environment is reflected on a healthy worker. Some reasons for not implementing the safety policy by most developing countries are lack of effective enforcement system, lack of information and accurate records of occupational diseases and accidents, and lack of basic professional training in occupational health and safety. Aim of Work: To assess a technical school students' knowledge, attitude, and practice toward the occupational health hazards. Changes in their knowledge were also measured before & after the health education session. Materials and Methods: A health education training session was done on fifty students in a technical education school in Abbasia district, Cairo. Their level of knowledge regarding occupational health was measured by means of a questionnaire distributed among them before and after the session. Results: Only 12.2 % of studied students have reported a previous training on occupational hazards. Thirty five students (71.4%) reported that their work require personal protective equipments (PPEs), 63.3% of students reported that they are protective to their health in workplace and 61.2% prefer to wear them; however only 26.5 % were always wearing them. Only about half of students (51%) knew the correct definition of periodic medical examination. After the health education program, there was a statistically significant improvement in the knowledge of occupational law, proper management of chemical spill and knowledge of hazard of machinery noise. Conclusion: Technical school students require further training sessions to provide them with the knowledge needed to protect themselves and their working environment.

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“…All the workers believed that safe methods of handling dyes were important, however; it was also found that only 34% of these workers used personal protective equipment (PPE) as gloves while working. 7 In another study carried out by Yu et al, 2005 about the knowledge, attitude and practice of printing workers towards organic solvents in Hong Kong, it was found that these parameters were generally low where good knowledge was positively related to being aware of legislations while appropriate attitude was associated with good knowledge and younger age. Safe practice was neither related to knowledge nor attitude but was associated positively with being informed about safety precautions and information from supervisors.…”

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Occupational Exposures and Health Profile among Workers in an Egyptian Printing Press

2019

The Egypt. J. of Community Medicine

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Background: Printing workers are at risk of several occupational exposures due to their job nature and their awareness of these hazards is important so that they can protect themselves. Objective: The current study aimed at comparing the health status of the printing workers with that of administrative department employees and to describe the knowledge of printing press workers about different exposures. Method: 171 printing workers and 175 administrative staff were recruited from an Egyptian press company in Cairo. An interview questionnaire was used including data on socioeconomic, occupational characteristics of the study population; questions about their awareness of different exposures; assessment of the worker's health through asking about various symptoms of different systems were also included. Results: The percentage of workers perceiving their working environment as dangerous was significantly higher than that of the administrative group. Most of the workers reported exposure to chemicals affecting the respiratory system (50.9%) followed by exposure to chemicals affecting the skin (33.3%). On the other hand, administrative workers reported spending long time working in one position (47.4%). The percentage of workers was significantly higher than that of administrative staff reporting eye irritation, hearing impairment, tinnitus, tremors, backache, numbness, dyspnea, chronic cough and skin inflammatory symptoms. Percent of administrative staff reporting neck pain was of higher than printing workers but without statistical significance. Conclusion & Recommendation: Printing press workers are exposed to various occupational hazards in their work environment which adversely affect their health status. Workers in printing industry need to be targeted by awareness programs to help them understand the types of occupational exposures they may experience and how to protect themselves from such exposures.

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Knowledge, attitude, and practice of dyeing and printing workers

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

Determinants of knowledge and safety practices of occupational hazards of textile dye workers in Sokoto, Nigeria: a descriptive analytic study

Determinants of knowledge and safety practices of occupational hazards of textile dye workers in Sokoto, Nigeria: a descriptive analytic study

Occupational Health and Safety Training: Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Among Technical Education Students

Occupational Exposures and Health Profile among Workers in an Egyptian Printing Press

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