Pengetahuan Mahasiswa Teknik Sipil Universitas Bengkulu Mengenai Kesehatan Dan Keselamatan Kerja Konstruksi

Abstract

With high number of work accidents in Indonesia, even throughout the world, it is necessary to have innovations and new approaches in an effort to reduce the number of accidents in the construction sector. One effort that can be done is to ensure that prospective construction sector workers, especially candidates for civil engineering degrees, have sufficient understanding of Occupational Helath and Safety (OHS) before they complete their education and then work in the construction sector. This research was aimed at determining the level of understanding of firstyear students about OHS in the construction sector and then to compare it with the level of understanding of fourth year students. Data were collected by distributing questionnaires to the two sample groups. The questionnaire was developed in the form of self-assessment. Overall, the results showed that there was a better change in the attitudes and levels of knowledge of students who had been studying for four years compared to students who had only taken one year of education. As many as 23.1% of respondents from first year students felt that they had very low knowledge of OHS. None of the fourth year students rated their knowledge of OHS as very poor. Responding to the question "what is your attitude towards construction OHS?" as many as 35.9% (majority) of respondents responded with a score of 3 (normal) while 46.5% of fourth year student respondents gave a score of 4 or very good. As many as 35.9% of first year student respondents had "bad" level of knowledge regarding OHS construction rules and 44.2% of fourth year student respondents felt their level of knowledge about construction OHS rules is "bad". Fourth year students are asked some additional questions. As many as 41.9% of respondents gave a "good" rating and as many as 44.2% of respondents gave a "very good" rating to the question "how is the quality of teaching about OHS by lecturers at the Civil Engineering Study Program, Bengkulu University?" Respondents assessed that the level of emphasis on the importance of OHS by lecturers at the Civil Engineering Study Program, Bengkulu University, was categorized as "very good"..