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Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among textile factory workers at Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Use of personal protective equipment is one of the important measures to safeguard workers from exposure to occupational hazards, especially in developing countries. However, there is a dearth of studies describing personal protective equipment utilization in Ethiopia. The present study...

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Autores principales: Tadesse, Sebsibe, Kelaye, Temesgen, Assefa, Yalemzewod
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4759730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26900393
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-016-0096-7
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description BACKGROUND: Use of personal protective equipment is one of the important measures to safeguard workers from exposure to occupational hazards, especially in developing countries. However, there is a dearth of studies describing personal protective equipment utilization in Ethiopia. The present study has determined the magnitude of personal protective equipment utilization and identified associated factors among textile factory workers at Hawassa Town, southern Ethiopia. METHODS: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among textile factory workers at Hawassa Town, southern Ethiopia from January to March 2014. Stratified sampling followed by simple random sampling techniques was used to select the total of 660 study participants. A pre-tested and structured questionnaire was used to collect data. Multivariate analyses were employed to see the effect of explanatory variables on dependent variable. RESULTS: The magnitude of personal protective equipment utilization was 82.4 %. Service duration of >10 years [AOR: 0.23, 95 % CI: (0.09, 0.58)], availability of personal protective equipments [AOR: 21.73, 95 % CI: (8.62, 54.79)], shift work [AOR: 2.28, 95 % CI: (1.12, 4.66)], alcohol drinking [AOR: 0.26, 95 % CI: (0.10, 0.66)], and cigarette smoking [AOR: 0.20, 95 % CI: (0.05, 0.78)] were factors significantly associated with use of personal protective equipment. CONCLUSION: In this study a relatively higher personal protective equipment utilization rate was reported compared to other studies in developing countries. However, this does not mean that there will be no need for further strengthening the safety programs as there are significant proportion of the workers still does not use all the necessary personal protective equipment during work. Interventions to promote use personal protective equipment should focus on areas, such as service duration, availability of protective equipment, presence of shift work, and control of substance abuse.
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spelling pubmed-47597302016-02-20 Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among textile factory workers at Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia Tadesse, Sebsibe Kelaye, Temesgen Assefa, Yalemzewod J Occup Med Toxicol Research BACKGROUND: Use of personal protective equipment is one of the important measures to safeguard workers from exposure to occupational hazards, especially in developing countries. However, there is a dearth of studies describing personal protective equipment utilization in Ethiopia. The present study has determined the magnitude of personal protective equipment utilization and identified associated factors among textile factory workers at Hawassa Town, southern Ethiopia. METHODS: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among textile factory workers at Hawassa Town, southern Ethiopia from January to March 2014. Stratified sampling followed by simple random sampling techniques was used to select the total of 660 study participants. A pre-tested and structured questionnaire was used to collect data. Multivariate analyses were employed to see the effect of explanatory variables on dependent variable. RESULTS: The magnitude of personal protective equipment utilization was 82.4 %. Service duration of >10 years [AOR: 0.23, 95 % CI: (0.09, 0.58)], availability of personal protective equipments [AOR: 21.73, 95 % CI: (8.62, 54.79)], shift work [AOR: 2.28, 95 % CI: (1.12, 4.66)], alcohol drinking [AOR: 0.26, 95 % CI: (0.10, 0.66)], and cigarette smoking [AOR: 0.20, 95 % CI: (0.05, 0.78)] were factors significantly associated with use of personal protective equipment. CONCLUSION: In this study a relatively higher personal protective equipment utilization rate was reported compared to other studies in developing countries. However, this does not mean that there will be no need for further strengthening the safety programs as there are significant proportion of the workers still does not use all the necessary personal protective equipment during work. Interventions to promote use personal protective equipment should focus on areas, such as service duration, availability of protective equipment, presence of shift work, and control of substance abuse. BioMed Central 2016-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4759730/ /pubmed/26900393 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-016-0096-7 Text en © Tadesse et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among textile factory workers at Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia
title_full Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among textile factory workers at Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia
title_fullStr Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among textile factory workers at Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among textile factory workers at Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia
title_short Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among textile factory workers at Hawassa Town, Southern Ethiopia
title_sort utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among textile factory workers at hawassa town, southern ethiopia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4759730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26900393
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-016-0096-7
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