The Safety Awareness of Construction Workers Regarding Workplace Health and Safety Standard

DOI

10.2991/ictvet-18.2019.96How to use a DOI?

Keywords

occupational health and safety; construction projects; work dangers; work incidents

Abstract

Construction work is one of the professions which has a high risk of accidents. Therefore, construction work has to be carried out properly in terms of occupational health and safety standards. The high rate of workplace accidents shows workers’ lack of understanding of occupational health and safety standards. The purpose of this research was to identify workers’ awareness especially construction workers regarding occupational health and safety standards. This research uses a qualitative approach, and the data is collected by interviewing 24 construction workers in Bandung, Indonesia. The result of this research indicates that not all of the workers understand the importance of occupational health and safety. Hence, they rarely wear protective clothing even for they own safety.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Pasha Nur Fauzania
AU  - Tutin Aryanti
AU  - Nanang Dalil Herman
AU  - Amalia Cahaya Putri
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - The Safety Awareness of Construction Workers Regarding Workplace Health and Safety Standard
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th UPI International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ICTVET 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 424
EP  - 426
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/ictvet-18.2019.96
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