THREAT EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT HEALTH THREATS FROM WORK AND SAFETY BEHAVIOR OF BAANMORN’S POTTERY WORKERS GROUP AT NAKHON SAWAN PROVINCE

Abstract

This research is the assessment of occupational health threat exposure and self-defense behavior of 108 people Ban Mon Pottery workers in Nakhon Sawan Province. Data collection was done by questionnaire. There were analyzed by descriptive statistics and test the correlation by using Chi square test and Fisher’s exact test.

The research results showed that most of the workers were male, aged between 30-44 years old, sleep 7-8 hours. The most of them are employees who have been worked more than 10 years, working hours is around 6-8 hours per day and work in 6 days per week. Workers are knowledgeable about hazard prevention, safety standards and relevant laws at a good level, moderate exposure to occupational threats. There was a low level of perception of health status from occupational threats, and safety behavior at work at a good level. The exposure to health threats from ergonomic work and perceived health status from exposure to ergonomic threats only that correlate with safety behavior in the workplace statistically significant (p<0.05).

According to the results of the study, the knowledge of safety in operations should be promoted to focus on raising awareness in order to create more safety behaviors in the workplace.