Association between sociodemographic factors, working experience and training status with knowledge level towards food and personal hygiene among food handlers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Food borne illness seems to become more common in Malaysia. Thus, food handlers as the most important person need to play their role in providing safe food for their customers. Hence, nowadays it is compulsory for them to undergo food training course in order to gain knowledge on food and personal hygiene. However, not only training can affect level of knowledge but also working experience and socio-demographic characteristics. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between socio-demographic factors, working experience and training status with knowledge level towards food and personal hygiene among 180 food handlers who attended the vaccination programme in Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) clinic. The data were collected from 180 food handlers through the methods of questionnaire and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21 for Windows. Based from the total answer answered by total 180 respondents, 96.11% score more than 80% of total questions correct ly, indicating that majority of the food handlers have a good knowledge on food and personal hygiene with frequency of 174. In the demographic profile analysis showed there is no association between socio-demographic factors and knowledge when. While analysis test showed there was significant difference for knowledge based on working experience. The results showed that only working experience is associated with knowledge

An examination on the influence of small and medium enterprise (SME) stakeholder on green supply chain management practices

In this paper, climate change and global warming are the biggest current issues in the industrial sectors. The green supply chain managements (GSCM) is one of the crucial input to these issues. Effective GSCM can potentially secure the organization's competitive advantage and improve the environmental performance of the network activities. In this study, the aim is to investigate and examine how a small and medium enterprises (SMEs) stakeholder pressure and top management influence green supply chain management practices. The study is further advance green supply chain management research in Malaysia focusing on SMEs manufacturing sector using structural equation modelling. Structural equation modelling is a multivariate statistical analysis technique used to examine structural relationship. It is the combination of factor analysis and multi regression analysis and used to analyse structural relationship between measure variable and latent factor. This research found that top management support and stakeholder pressure is the major influence for SMEs to adopt green supply chain management. The research also found that top management is fully mediate with the relationship between stakeholder pressure and monitoring supplier environmental performanc