Abstract:
Abstract
Introduction: Globally, about 160 million people encounter occupational injuries; ILO
estimates that the cost to be 4% of the global GDP or $1.25 trillion USD. The second
largest number of occupational injuries was reported from construction industries.
Occupational injury in the construction industry is 4 to 5 times that of manufacturing
industry.
Objective: The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence and associated
factors of occupational injuries among Genale- Dawa 3D hydropower dam
construction project workers South East Ethiopia.
Method: Institutional-based cross-sectional study design was conducted in GenaleDawa 3D hydropower dam construction project from April-01-22, 2018. A total of 405
dam construction project workers were included in the study. The study participants
were selected by using simple random sampling technique. Data were collected
though interview using structured questionnaire then collected data was entered into
Epi-info version 7 and analysis was done by using SPSS version 20 software.
Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression was used to see the association between
predictors and dependent variable. The 95% C.I and adjusted odds ratio was used to
see the strength of association.
Results: The prevalence of occupational injuries in the last 12 months prior to the
study was 57.8% with [95%CI :( 52.8, 62.7)]. Age [AOR:2.63, 95% CI:(1.40, 4.94)],
educational status [AOR:3.64,95%CI:(1.38, 9.56)], drinking alcohol [AOR:2.26,95%CI:
(1.22, 4.22)], job stress [AOR:3.47, 95%CI: (1.90, 6.35)], work shift [AOR:2.65, 95%
CI:(1.18, 5.94)] and working hour per week [AOR:2.48, 95% CI: (1.55,3.73)] were
factors significantly associated with occupational injury.
Conclusion and recommendation: Occupational injuries were common among dam
construction project workers. Therefore, counter measures such as conducting regular
monitoring of substance abuse, reduce overtime work, rotation work shift, and
consider age and educational status during employee recruitment could be effective to
decrease prevalence of occupational injuries.
Keywords: Hydropower dam construction workers, Occupational injury, Ethiopia
