Analysis on influencing factors of workers'personal protective equipment usage in a city / 中华劳动卫生职业病杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To understand influencing factors on workers' personal protective equipment (PPE) usage, and provide a basis for standardizing the PPE use in the city.@*Methods@#The basic information of workers exposed to occupational hazards in a municipal area was imported into SPSS 18.0 and numbered sequentially in May 2018. A simple random sampling method was used to select 1 678 workers as the research object, and then a questionnaire survey was conducted from June to July 2018. In the valid questionnaires collected, workers who self-rated as "full-time correct use of PPE" and were approved by occupational health managers of employing units were included in the "correct use group" and others in the "incorrect use group". χ2 test was used to analyze the PPE use of different factors, and binary unconditional logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the influencing factors.@*Results@#1547 valid questionnaires were collected in this study, including 803 workers correctly used PPE at full time (51.9%) , and other workers never used or occasionally used PPE. There were statistical difference of PPE usage rate among workers of different sex, industry and wage type (P<0.05) . Occupational health supervisors setting example in PPE usage (β=0.368) , workmates using PPE correctly and reminding PPE usage (β=0.891) , posting warning specifications of occupational hazards (β=0.361) , setting up "safe man" at the entrance of workshop (β=0.585) , WeChat and other new media on occupational health knowledge propaganda (β=0.536) , punishing incorrect usage of PPE (β=0.252) 、sex (β=-0.512) and wage type (β=-0.203) are influencing factors affecting the usage of PPE.@*Conclusion@#PPE usage rate of the occupational population in the city is still fairly low, and the PPE usage is influenced by a variety of factors. Comprehensive measures should be taken by employers to ensure using PPE to protect workers' occupational health.