The Cognitive Intervention for Hazard Prevention to Improve Safety Behavior in Creative Industry(Case Study: Indonesian’s Batik SME)

Abstract

SMEs have an important role in the national economy. Ninety-nine percent of Indonesia's business units are SMEs which involved 97% of Indonesia's workforce. One of the important aspects of work safety is safety behavior. Good safety behavior has an impact on reducing the number of work accidents and injuries. The contribution of these programs/activities is educating workers by providing information through intervention (counseling) dealing with hazards and work implementation. Evaluation of intervention assessed 10 workers as participants. Implementation was done in two SMEs, Batik Naraya and Batik Zulpah located in Tanjung Bumi-Madura. The intervention was given for 2 days with a focus on efforts to increase the level of workers' knowledge of physical, chemical, and ergonomic hazards and their hazard management. Intervention activities by short explanations or discussions directly with workers at their workstations (safety briefing). The intervention activity ended by displaying the posters of hazard types and efforts dealing with safety engagement at each workstation. The results showed that there was improved knowledge of workers before and after the intervention regarding the physical hazards, the procedure of physical hazards, the chemical hazards, the procedure of chemical hazards, ergonomic hazards, and the procedure of ergonomic hazards.