Workers' Safety in Indonesia: Is It Enough to Protect Them from Facing the Industry 4.0 Era?

Herqutanto, Stefanie Agustine, Putri Tresnasari

2019

Abstract

Workers in Indonesia, especially carpenters and non-permanent construction workers, lack good safety behaviour, marked by a high incidence of mortality, morbidity, and disability caused by occupational accidents. It involves many sociocultural demographic factors to change workers' behaviour. This study aims to identify factors influencing workers' safety behaviour among carpenters and non-permanent construction workers. A Qualitative study was conducted using in-depth interviews and focus group discussion (FGD) with semi-structured guidelines, conducted in 2 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) carpenter industries and one construction site of a national construction company. The FGD involved three layers; workers, supervisors, and management staff. Phenomenology approach was used as a conceptual framework. Adequate safety behaviour perception was found among carpenters due to their long work experience. Carpenter's attitude and behaviour that did not comply with safe behaviour were influenced by lack of motivation, interest, role model, readiness, policy and supervision. Supervisors were not regarded as role models and are weak in supervision. Management already provides standard infrastructure and facilities but is weak in terms of policy, regulation, training, and reward and punishment system. A similar condition was found among construction workers that did not wear personal protective equipment (PPE) regularly, due to limited Knowledge, and misperception of the importance of PPE.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Herqutanto., Agustine S. and Tresnasari P. (2019). Workers' Safety in Indonesia: Is It Enough to Protect Them from Facing the Industry 4.0 Era?. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Vocational Higher Education - Volume 1: ICVHE, ISBN 978-989-758-530-2, pages 354-358. DOI: 10.5220/0010684800002967

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icvhe19,
author={Herqutanto and Stefanie Agustine and Putri Tresnasari},
title={Workers' Safety in Indonesia: Is It Enough to Protect Them from Facing the Industry 4.0 Era?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Vocational Higher Education - Volume 1: ICVHE,},
year={2019},
pages={354-358},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010684800002967},
isbn={978-989-758-530-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Vocational Higher Education - Volume 1: ICVHE,
TI - Workers' Safety in Indonesia: Is It Enough to Protect Them from Facing the Industry 4.0 Era?
SN - 978-989-758-530-2
AU - Herqutanto.
AU - Agustine S.
AU - Tresnasari P.
PY - 2019
SP - 354
EP - 358
DO - 10.5220/0010684800002967