Ear Nose and Throat Nursing School, Ghana.
Department of Silviculture and Forest Management, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
Int J Occup Saf Ergon. 2022 Sep;28(3):1690-1698. doi: 10.1080/10803548.2021.1928390. Epub 2021 Jun 7.
We investigated the awareness of occupational hazards, and attitudes and practices towards the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) among informal woodworkers of the Sokoban Wood Village in Ghana. Structured questionnaires were used to collect primary data from 355 woodworkers and analysed using descriptive statistics and logistic regression. The results showed that the workers are aware of PPE and knew about injuries they are exposed to. Most woodworkers had a positive attitude in terms of their perception on the necessity to use PPE but had a low frequency of PPE usage. Educational level, job type, length of service and marital status are the socio-demographic characteristics that significantly influence woodworkers' compliance with health and safety regulations. We recommend that institutions charged with enforcement of occupational health and safety regulations should extend their monitoring roles to informal workers and liaise with local companies to supply PPE to informal woodworkers at subsidized costs.
我们调查了加纳 Sokoban 木村非正规木材工人对职业危害的认识，以及他们对使用个人防护设备 (PPE) 的态度和做法。我们使用结构化问卷从 355 名木材工人那里收集了主要数据，并使用描述性统计和逻辑回归进行了分析。结果表明，工人了解 PPE 并了解他们所面临的伤害。大多数木材工人对使用 PPE 的必要性有积极的态度，但使用 PPE 的频率较低。教育水平、工作类型、服务年限和婚姻状况是显著影响工人遵守健康和安全法规的社会人口特征。我们建议负责执行职业健康和安全法规的机构将其监督角色扩大到非正规工人，并与当地公司合作，以补贴成本向非正规木材工人供应 PPE。
