A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge and Practice Regarding Occupational Health Hazards and its Prevention Among Rice Mill Worker in Selected Rice Mill Durg District, with a View to Develop an Information Booklet

Abstract

Background: Occupational health, or occupational safety, is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work (i.e. in an occupation). These terms also refer to the goals of this field, so their use in the sense of this article was originally an abbreviation of occupational safety and health program/department etc. The goal of an occupational safety and health program is to foster a safe and healthy occupational environment. OSH also protects all the general public who may be affected by the occupational environment. An “occupational hazard” is any workplace condition that causes a risk to employee health. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the government organization in charge of keeping workers safe, has defined six main categories of occupational hazards. Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge and practice regarding occupational health hazards and its prevention among rice mill worker in selected rice mill Durg District, with a view to develop an information booklet”. Setting and Design: A quantitative-qualitative integrated approach with non- experimental Descriptive research design was adopted for this study. The study focused on 60 rice mill workers in selected rice mill Durg District (C.G.) Material and Method: Totally 60 rice mill workers were selected from the selected rice mill Durg District (C.G.) after obtaining informed consent. Data was collected by multiple choice questionnaires to assess the knowledge and practice regarding occupational health hazards and its prevention. Results: Knowledge and practice regarding occupational health hazards among rice mill worker were analyzed using frequency and percentage. It is seen that out of 60 rice mill worker, distribution of subjects based on overall analysis of knowledge score the total knowledge score were 1024 out of 1800, the mean knowledge score was 17.06 the mean percentage of knowledge score were 56.86% the standard deviation was 2.66. In terms of overall analysis of practice score, total practice score was 1331 out of 1800, the mean knowledge score was 22.17 the mean percentage of knowledge score were 73.9% the standard deviation was 1.95. The study revealed a correlation between knowledge and practice score there is moderately positive correlation between knowledge and practice score of rice mill worker regarding occupational health hazards and its prevention r=0.61, P<0.05 level of significance.