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Abstract
Occupational injury, illness and workplace facilities are important public health concerns. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that more than 2.3 million deaths per year occur as a result of occupational accidents or work-related diseases. About 317 million accidents occur on the job annually (International Labour Organization, 2017).
Occupational hazards can encompass many types of hazards, including; physical hazards that involve environmental hazards that can cause harm with or without contact such as heat, humidity, vibration, electricity, ergonomic include posture, sudden movements and repetitive motion. Chemical include dust inhalation and chemical materials that present in the work environments that may threaten workers health and safety. Psychological hazards there are many various aspects of work organization may be stressors (Vidya et al., 2015)
Occupational health nurses, as the largest single group of health care professionals involved in delivering health care at brick factory have responded to these new challenges. They have raised the standards of their professional education and training, modernized and expanded their role at the factory and in many situations have emerged as the central key figure involved in delivering high quality occupational health services to the workers in brick factory (WHO, 2020).
Aim of study:
This study was carried out to assess the Occupational health hazards among workers in Warwara brick factory Through:
1- Assessing knowledge and practice of the workers regarding occupational health hazards.
2- Assessing occupational health and safety measure in the work place.
3- Measuring the extent the occupational health and safety assessment series (OHSAS, 2008) have application in the field of wok.
Results:
The important findings that were obtained from the study can be summarized as follow:-
• According to worker’s demographic data, 100 workers participate in the present study. As 50% were in the age 20<30, 20% were ≥40, with
Mean ± SD = 28.40±8.03, 78% of them had monthly income not enough, 71.0% of them were married, while 22% of them read and write.
• Regarding to presence of chronic diseases, 70% of them suffer from chronic diseases, 35.7% had hypertention, 40% had asthma, 70% of them had pain in the lower back, with regard to smoking, 85% of them are smokers,27,1%suffer from diabetes and 41.9 suffer from stomach ulcer as a result of smoking.
• Regarding to occupational health hazards affecting workers health 60% of them had moist cough, 53% of them had epigastric pain, 53% had inflammation of eye, 34% had pain in the ears, 60% had dry skin and 80% of them had pain in the shoulders.
• Regarding to workers knowledge about types of occupational hazards, 30%of them had correct knowledge about physical hazards,75% of them had incorrect knowledge about mechanical hazards, 60% of them had incorrect knowledge about chemical hazards and 45% of them had correct knowledge about psychological hazards.
• Regarding to workers knowledge about methods of prevention of occupational hazards, 65% of them had incorrect knowledge about methods of prevention of occupational hazards.
• Regarding to workers knowledge about first aid, 60% of them had incorrect knowledge about first aid.
• Regrading practice of safety measures, 65.0% of workers not using personal protective equipment, while 35.0% of them using the personal protective equipment.
• There was highly significant positive correlation between total knowledge scores and total done practice scores regarding safety measure.