Prevalence of work related injuries among UPM staff July 2013 /
Introduction Work-related injury is an injury or illness occurs in the working environment. Commuting accidents are injuries that occur whilst travelling at the time of the employee was engaged in work related activities. Types of work-related injuries are divided into fatal and nonfatal injuries. T...
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| Summary: | Introduction Work-related injury is an injury or illness occurs in the working environment. Commuting accidents are injuries that occur whilst travelling at the time of the employee was engaged in work related activities. Types of work-related injuries are divided into fatal and nonfatal injuries. The non-fatal injury is further divided into temporary and permanent disability. A restricted work injury is a result for employee being unable to perform their works normally. Objectives A study is conducted in Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor to determine the prevalence of work related injuries among the UPM staff in July 2013. Methods Study population involved all staff (academic staff and non-academic staft) in 15 faculties in UPM Serdang campus. Sampling frame was the lists of all UPM staffs and selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria.Inclusion criteria was Malaysian UPM staff whereas exclusion criteria was Non-Malaysian UPM staff. Respondents (UPM staft) were given bilingual questionnairesand face to face interview was carried out to obtain information on sociodemographic characteristics, occupational characteristics and work related injuries. The data were analysed by using SPSS version 21. Results Based from the results from 170 respondents, 38 of them have been involved in work related injuries. Thus, the prevalence of work related injuries among UPM staffs in July 20] 3 is 22.4%. Response rate was 46.2%. There is no association between socio-demographic characteristics and the work related injuries since all p values more than 0.05. So, the null hypothesis was not rejected. The results for work related injuries among UPM staff was 20 (11.8%) for females and 18 (10.6%) for males(p=0.189). The study also showed that 36 (21.1 %) are Malay have involved in work related injuries compared to Non-Malay 2 (1.2%) for race association (p=0.738). The highest age group that have been involved in work related injuries is 31-40 years old 17 (8.2%) (p=0.580). For educational level, respondents who have tel1iary education level 105 (61.8%) have not involved in work related injuries, which is highest compared to respondents who have SPM 19 (11.2%) and other educational level 8 (4.7%)(p=0.535). For association between the level of income (p=0.176), the respondents who have income level more than RM3000 16 (9.4%) have involved in work related injuries compared to the respondents who have income level lower than RM3000 22 (12.9%). For occupational characteristics, there was no association between types of worker (p=0.563), types of occupation (p=0.120), daily working duration (0.471), working experience (p=0.202) and types of faculty (p=0.101) with work related injury. Conclusion The prevalence of work related injuries among UPM staffs in July 2013 is 22.4%. We cannot find any association between social demographic characteristics and occupational characteristics with work related injury. Keywords Work related injuries, UPM Staff, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Occupational injuries |
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