Independence in Resolving Safety and Health Issues and Occupational Occupations of Road Sweepers in Town X

Umi Salmah, Isyatun Mardiyah Syahri, Sri Novita Lubis, Yenny Obsi Satra

2018

Abstract

The biggest contributor to occupational accidents is the unsafe act. It needs self awareness from the workers to avoid them from increasing harmful acts so that they can be independent. The purpose of this study is to find out the independence in solving the problem of k3 and the incident of occupational accidents on road sweepers in city X. This is a descriptive research with cross sectional study approach, 21 districts in city X and the population of 815 people. Based on the Slovin’s formula, it is obtained 260 people as the sample. Based on the analysis result obtained age ≤ 48 years counted 163 people (62,7%), elementary education 135 people (51,9%) and work period ≤ 22 years counted 200 person (76,9%). Respondents with the category of Self-Independent is as many as 130 people (50%). The low level of independence in overcoming the problem of OSH on road sweeper workers and the most respondents claimed to have experienced work accident in the last year that is as many as 139 people (53.5%). Needs to improve the road sweepers’ independence on k3 through training, illumination and module of information resources by considering education and worker age.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Salmah U., Syahri I., Lubis S. and Satra Y. (2018). Independence in Resolving Safety and Health Issues and Occupational Occupations of Road Sweepers in Town X.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR, ISBN 978-989-758-449-7, pages 595-599. DOI: 10.5220/0010080005950599

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosteerr18,
author={Umi Salmah and Isyatun Mardiyah Syahri and Sri Novita Lubis and Yenny Obsi Satra},
title={Independence in Resolving Safety and Health Issues and Occupational Occupations of Road Sweepers in Town X},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,},
year={2018},
pages={595-599},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010080005950599},
isbn={978-989-758-449-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,
TI - Independence in Resolving Safety and Health Issues and Occupational Occupations of Road Sweepers in Town X
SN - 978-989-758-449-7
AU - Salmah U.
AU - Syahri I.
AU - Lubis S.
AU - Satra Y.
PY - 2018
SP - 595
EP - 599
DO - 10.5220/0010080005950599