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Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among building construction workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019
BACKGROUND: Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a material, device, equipment, or clothing used or worn by workers to reduce their chance of exposure or contact with any harmful material or energy that causes injury, disease, or even death. The use of PPE is a universal legal requirement to reduc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7251725/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32460738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08889-x |
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author | Alemu, Addisu Alehegn Yitayew, Meseret Azazeh, Aklilu Kebede, Sofia |
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description | BACKGROUND: Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a material, device, equipment, or clothing used or worn by workers to reduce their chance of exposure or contact with any harmful material or energy that causes injury, disease, or even death. The use of PPE is a universal legal requirement to reduce occupational injuries and illnesses in the workplace. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess PPE utilization and its associated factors among building construction workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019. METHODS: Institution based quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted on the selected construction sites of Addis Ababa city from April 1 to May 18, 2019. Data were collected among all (206) building construction workers via interviewer-administered questionnaires. Data were entered into Epi info version 7.1 and exported to SPSS version 25 statistical software for analysis. Variables with a p-value of less than 0.20 in bivariate analysis were included in multivariate logistic regression. Finally, variables with a p-value of less than 0.05 in multivariate analysis were considered as significantly associated. RESULTS: The utilization of at least one PPE among building construction workers in Addis Ababa was found to be 38%. The majority (41.1%) of the participants’ reason for not using PPE were the unavailability of PPE followed by absence of orientation on using PPE (21.3%). The majority (35.3%) and (32.2%) of participants knew abrasion as a type of injury and suffered from abrasion respectively. Factors associated with utilization of PPE were the presence of training on PPE use (AOR = 4.8; 95% CI: 2.3, 10.3), presence of safety training (AOR = 2,8; 95% CI:1.5, 5.2), safety orientation before commencing work (AOR = 4.0; 95% CI:1.9, 9.0) and presence of supervision (AOR = 5.0; 95% CI:1.9,13). CONCLUSIONS: PPE utilization among building construction workers in Addis Ababa was low. The main reasons for non-utilization of PPE were unavailability of the materials and the absence of orientation on using PPE. The presence of PPE use training, presence of safety training, safety orientation, and governmental supervision were factors associated with PPE utilization. There should be continuous supervision of construction sites to assure all workers get material and training on how to use it. |
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spelling | pubmed-72517252020-06-04 Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among building construction workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019 Alemu, Addisu Alehegn Yitayew, Meseret Azazeh, Aklilu Kebede, Sofia BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a material, device, equipment, or clothing used or worn by workers to reduce their chance of exposure or contact with any harmful material or energy that causes injury, disease, or even death. The use of PPE is a universal legal requirement to reduce occupational injuries and illnesses in the workplace. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess PPE utilization and its associated factors among building construction workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019. METHODS: Institution based quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted on the selected construction sites of Addis Ababa city from April 1 to May 18, 2019. Data were collected among all (206) building construction workers via interviewer-administered questionnaires. Data were entered into Epi info version 7.1 and exported to SPSS version 25 statistical software for analysis. Variables with a p-value of less than 0.20 in bivariate analysis were included in multivariate logistic regression. Finally, variables with a p-value of less than 0.05 in multivariate analysis were considered as significantly associated. RESULTS: The utilization of at least one PPE among building construction workers in Addis Ababa was found to be 38%. The majority (41.1%) of the participants’ reason for not using PPE were the unavailability of PPE followed by absence of orientation on using PPE (21.3%). The majority (35.3%) and (32.2%) of participants knew abrasion as a type of injury and suffered from abrasion respectively. Factors associated with utilization of PPE were the presence of training on PPE use (AOR = 4.8; 95% CI: 2.3, 10.3), presence of safety training (AOR = 2,8; 95% CI:1.5, 5.2), safety orientation before commencing work (AOR = 4.0; 95% CI:1.9, 9.0) and presence of supervision (AOR = 5.0; 95% CI:1.9,13). CONCLUSIONS: PPE utilization among building construction workers in Addis Ababa was low. The main reasons for non-utilization of PPE were unavailability of the materials and the absence of orientation on using PPE. The presence of PPE use training, presence of safety training, safety orientation, and governmental supervision were factors associated with PPE utilization. There should be continuous supervision of construction sites to assure all workers get material and training on how to use it. BioMed Central 2020-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7251725/ /pubmed/32460738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08889-x Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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 in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Alemu, Addisu Alehegn Yitayew, Meseret Azazeh, Aklilu Kebede, Sofia Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among building construction workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019 |
title | Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among building construction workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019 |
title_full | Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among building construction workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019 |
title_fullStr | Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among building construction workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019 |
title_full_unstemmed | Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among building construction workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019 |
title_short | Utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among building construction workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019 |
title_sort | utilization of personal protective equipment and associated factors among building construction workers in addis ababa, ethiopia, 2019 |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7251725/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32460738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08889-x |
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