Occupational Safety and Health Behaviour of The Cleanliness Service Workers in Medan

Abstract

Human factor occupies a very important position against the occurrence of work accidents that is between 80-85%. Health Safety and Environment Accident Prevention Unit said that 90% of the accidents were caused by human errors and 70% of them can be prevented. The accident prevention effort in Indonesia faces so many problems such as traditional mindset which assumes an accident as a disaster so that the people would be surrender. The occupational unsafe acts were caused by some reasons such as the inadequate knowledge by the workers about occupational safety and health (OHS). The inadequate knowledge on potential hazards and risks of accidents will make workers ignoring the safety in working that affects their safety. This research was aimed at knowing the relationship between the knowledge on OHS with the safe Acts in working on cleanlines service workers in Medan. Analytical research was done with the population of 815 people of Melati group criterion, on set workers who work for ≥ 1 year and sample of 260 workers in 21 sub-districts in Medan which are taken randomly by questionairres. The data analysis in this research used univariat analysis and bivariate with Chi-Square test. As the result of the analysis, there are 163 workers ≤ 48 years old (62.7%), 135 workers with primary school education background, and 200 workers with working period ≤ 22 years (76.9%). There are 254 workers who get adequate knowledge on OHS (97.7%) and 121 workers who do occupational safe acts (46.5%). From the statistic test, the researcher gets p= 0.08 (<0, 05), interpreted as there is a relationship between having OHS knowledge and the occupational safe acts on cleanlines service workers in Medan. It is suggested for Sanitation Departmentof Medan as a leading sector to more improve the controlling effort due to the adequate knowledge of the workers but there are some who ignoring the occupational safe acts.