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Abstract
Introduction: Personal protective equipment utilization in the manufacturing industry
is an important issue because one of the top ten fatality rate is due to lack of
Personal protective equipment utilization among all industries worldwide and
millions of workers suffer by non-fatal injuries and illnesses.
Objective: To assess personal protective equipment utilization and associated factor
among Komebolcha textile workers in Komebolcha Town; North East Ethiopia
Method and materials: An institution based quantitative cross- sectional study was
conducted on 404 production workers in Komebolcha textile factory north east
Ethiopia from February 01, 2016 to March 30/ 2016. Stratified sampling technique
was used to select the study participant. A pre- tested and structured observational
questionnaires and checklist were used to collect data. EPi Info version 3.5.4 is used
to data entry where as SPSS version 20.0 is used to data analysis. Bivariate and
multivariate analysis was employed to see the effect of each explanatory variable on
the dependant variable.
Result: The magnitude of personal protective equipment utilization was 58.2%
[95%CI:(53.0 , 62.6)]. work regulation [AOR:3.0,95%CI:(1.04 , 4.90)], safety training
[AOR:5.10,95%CI:(3.14,8.28)], drinking alcohol [AOR:2.85,95%CI:(1.73,4.67)], work
section [AOR:4.27,95%CI:(1.52,12.08)] were factors significantly associated with
utilization of personal protective equipment.
Conclusion and Recommendation: utilization of personal protective equipment
was low among production workers. Work regulation, work section, safety training
and drink alcohol were statically significantly association with utilization of personal
protective equipment.
Keywords: personal protective equipment; textile industry, workers, Ethiopia. |
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