Native and Foreign Laborers’ Sense of Hygiene and Safety and their Comprehension of Occupational Injury - with One Manufacturing Corporation

• Main Authors: Chwan-deng Huang, 黃椽登
• Other Authors: Chao-yin Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11957649808109845247

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 環境與安全工程系碩士班 === 95 === Death of laborers and property loss have been occurring due to the large number of safety security accidents in the domestic petrochemical industries. The research on how to prevent the occupational accidents should be well done. The number of foreign laborers who work legally in Taiwan has been reaching 338,755 since the end of December in year 2006 when the government officially allowed the importation of foreign laborers. It indicates the foreign laborers are increasing in number by years. However, the foreign laborers are more prone to the occupational accidents since they are normally the basic labor force. This research has been major focusing on laborer’s sense of hygiene and safety and on the findings- after the comparison made between the domestic and foreign laborer’s occupational injuries. Based on the actual cases which happened in the certain manufacturing company in the recent 5 years, the real opinions gathered from these laborers were collected by ways of survey and questionnaire. The analysis and statistics were made to clearly describe the security knowing of the both laborers, conclusion and suggestion were organized then. The paper is working by means of survey and questionnaire. The major sampling group includes the domestic, Thailand and Philippine’s laborers. The test had been done by means of questionnaire filling-in during September and October of year 2006. The effective sampling about domestic laborers is 132, Thailand laborers is 142 and Philippines 123. The totally effective samples are 397. The results of the survey show that laborers from different countries highly agree with the importance of occupational training of safety and hygiene, before people starting working. Respecting the chart of the general knowledge of safety and hygiene, Thailand laborers got the highest score, Philippine second and the domestic laborers third, which shows the domestic occupational training has been highly demanded. It should be of important reference for our government’s policy-making. With regard to the cognition of safety and hygiene, the foreign laborers got higher score, compared with the domestic laborers. However, the foreign laborers usually take the most risky part of job that they are the most accidents-prone group. The five-point score is adopted and the average point 3 is the scoring value to decide the positive and negative. Respecting the one-way analysis of variance, we assume laborers of different countries share the same Safety and Hygiene score. If P-Value is lower than the Distinctive Value, the first assumption will be denied. In respect to Safety and Hygiene chart, the average score is between 4.31 and 4.38. Our domestic laborers got the lowest one and the highest one is got by Philippine’s laborers. The finding of one-way ANOVA is laborers of different countries have no clear diffence in Safety and Hygiene knowledge. In respect of the occupational occurrence chart, the average score is between 3.33 and 4.27. The lowest one is our domestic laborers and the highest one is laborers from Thailand. The lower P value below the distinctive level says that the occupational occurrence differs due to the difference of nationality. Respecting the safety and hygiene policy chart, the average score is between 3.82 and 4.19. The lowest one is domestic laborers and the highest one is Philippine’s. The lower P value below the distinctive level means the safety and hygiene policy differs due to the difference of nationality. For the Risk-awareness chart, the average score is between 3.86 and 4.19. The lowest one is the domestic’s and the highest one is Thailand’s. The lower P value below Distinctive Level indicates the awareness differs, cause of the different nationalities. For the belief and attitude chart, the average score is between 3.64 and 3.82. The lowest one is the domestic’s and the highest one is Thailand’s. The lower P value below Distinctive Level indicates the belief and attitude differs, cause of the different nationalities. For the education and training chart, the average score is between 3.89 and 4.15. The lowest one is Philippine’s and the highest one is Thailand’s. The lower P value below Distinctive Level indicates the education and training differs, due to the different nationalities. For the Obedience chart, the average score is between 4.03 and 4.23. The lowest one is Philippine’s and the highest one is Thailand’s. The lower P value below Distinctive Level says the obedience differs, due to the different nationalities. A danger-free working environment, education and training of laborers, enforcement of the safety and hygiene management which enables laborers to follow the regulation and discipline, the safety concern and the continuous improvement of safety are the major works to avoid occupational injury.