The relationship between factory workers' quality of life and occupational hazards

Abstract

Background: "Occupational hazard poses a danger to individual in working environment in addition to the consequences such as fatal accidents, minor to serious injuries and immediate allergic and systemic effects". The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between factory workers' quality of life and occupational hazards.
Materials and Method: The test used the descriptive method. The study was carried out in factory of Hamam AL-alili .The sample size was (185) workers selected by convenient sampling. Data collection was conducted in February 2020.The instrument development by researcher depended on (Ware et al.,2002) included three parts: (A) Part 1: personal data questionnaire, which includes (age, years of experience, educational level, department, residence and nature of work) (B) Part II: questions to assess occupational hazards among cement factory workers. (C) part III: measures the quality of Life.
Results: The study noted that more than double of staff didn't know about noise issues (61 percent), whereas more than half of them understood that accident exposure was one of the insufficient lighting problems. Most employees have found that the accidents or injuries and respiratory issues are respectively considered the issues that arise due to exposure to mechanical and chemical hazards. Of the staff, approximately (55.1 percent) had moderate rates of QOL.
Conclusion: These researchers found a highly important discrepancy between the QOL of staff and noise and ventilation as physical risks, electrical risks and chemical hazards.