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A study on the effectiveness of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on Building Construction Workers
| العنوان: | A study on the effectiveness of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on Building Construction Workers |
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| المؤلفون: | Rong Guan Lu, Jun Xian Goh, Devi Rajendran Salini, Norida Wahab Siti |
| المصدر: | E3S Web of Conferences, Vol 136, p 04090 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: | EDP Sciences |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Environmental sciences, GE1-350 |
| الوصف: | Nowadays, Occupational Safety and Health has getting more important in Malaysia. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is one of the way to protect building construction workers, PPE is any equipment, device or material that worn or used by the workers to protect them from exposure or contact with any harmful material which may cause injury, disease or even death. Despite its benefits, the awareness of PPE is low among building construction workers. The purpose of this study is to examine the utilization of PPE and how the knowledge of using PPE affecting the safety of the workers on building construction. There are 100 workers from the building construction industry who participated in the survey. The data were collected using self-designed questionnaires and analyzed using partial correlation and multiple regression analysis. The obtained result reveals that awareness and training have positive effect while experience has negative effect toward the effectiveness on PPE on the construction workers. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English French |
| تدمد: | 2267-1242 |
| Relation: | https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2019/62/e3sconf_icbte2019_04090.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/2267-1242; https://doaj.org/article/9476b3405bae48ad8de187c99c5c7668 |
| DOI: | 10.1051/e3sconf/201913604090 |
| الاتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201913604090 https://doaj.org/article/9476b3405bae48ad8de187c99c5c7668 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.BE557652 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 22671242 |
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| DOI: | 10.1051/e3sconf/201913604090 |