A STUDY ON LEVEL OF USAGE OF PERSONNEL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT'S AMONG THE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION WORKERS: A KNOWLEDGE DOMAIN
| Main Authors: | Ananda P, Dr. Devaraja |
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| Format: | Article Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2021
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4618580 |
Daftar Isi:
- Back Ground: PPE (Personal protective equipment) is equipment that will defend the workers against health and safety risks at work. Personal protective equipment or PPE is critical tokeep workersin the workplace safely to do work. Objectives: To investigate the usage of Personnel Protective Equipments among the building construction workers among building construction workers. Methods: The cross-sectional prospective study has employed. 360 building construction workers have been selected by using stratified sampling techniques. Results: The KMO value is 0.672 and it greater than 0.5, and The Chi-square test value is 690.749 and it is significant at one percent level. Together three components have explained 56.141 percent of variations. Conclusions: Personal protective equipment’s (PPE) PPE is equipment that will protect workers against health or safety risks on the job. The finding is to reduce worker exposure to dangers when engineering and administrative controls are not possible.