A study on the effectiveness of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on Building Construction Workers
Nowadays, Occupational Safety and Health has getting more important in Malaysia. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is one of the way to protect building construction workers, PPE is any equipment, device or material that worn or used by the workers to protect them from exposure or contact with any...
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doaj-9476b3405bae48ad8de187c99c5c76682021-02-02T06:41:55ZengEDP SciencesE3S Web of Conferences2267-12422019-01-011360409010.1051/e3sconf/201913604090e3sconf_icbte2019_04090A study on the effectiveness of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on Building Construction WorkersRong Guan Lu0Jun Xian Goh1Devi Rajendran Salini2Norida Wahab Siti3Faculty of Business and Information Science, UCSI University, Jalan Menara GadingFaculty of Business and Information Science, UCSI University, Jalan Menara GadingFaculty of Business and Information Science, UCSI University, Jalan Menara GadingFaculty of Business and Information Science, UCSI University, Jalan Menara GadingNowadays, Occupational Safety and Health has getting more important in Malaysia. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is one of the way to protect building construction workers, PPE is any equipment, device or material that worn or used by the workers to protect them from exposure or contact with any harmful material which may cause injury, disease or even death. Despite its benefits, the awareness of PPE is low among building construction workers. The purpose of this study is to examine the utilization of PPE and how the knowledge of using PPE affecting the safety of the workers on building construction. There are 100 workers from the building construction industry who participated in the survey. The data were collected using self-designed questionnaires and analyzed using partial correlation and multiple regression analysis. The obtained result reveals that awareness and training have positive effect while experience has negative effect toward the effectiveness on PPE on the construction workers.https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2019/62/e3sconf_icbte2019_04090.pdf |
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Nowadays, Occupational Safety and Health has getting more important in Malaysia. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is one of the way to protect building construction workers, PPE is any equipment, device or material that worn or used by the workers to protect them from exposure or contact with any harmful material which may cause injury, disease or even death. Despite its benefits, the awareness of PPE is low among building construction workers. The purpose of this study is to examine the utilization of PPE and how the knowledge of using PPE affecting the safety of the workers on building construction. There are 100 workers from the building construction industry who participated in the survey. The data were collected using self-designed questionnaires and analyzed using partial correlation and multiple regression analysis. The obtained result reveals that awareness and training have positive effect while experience has negative effect toward the effectiveness on PPE on the construction workers. |
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