Hubungan antara Knowledge, Attitude, Practice Safe Behavior Pekerja dalam Upaya untuk Menegakkan Keselamatan dan Kesehatan Kerja

Abstract

Number of work accidents that occurred are still quite high and cause major losses. The behavior of the workers should be improved in an attempt to prevent workplace accidents and to support safety in the workplace. The behavior of workers divided into three domain, which consists of knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP). KAP measurements identify what is known and done by workers and how the theirs attitude in performing their daily work.The aims of this study were to determine the level of KAP of safe behavior and to indentify the relationship between knowledge, attitude, practice safe behaviors of workers.Data obtained by conducting interviews and distributing questionnaires to 41 workers in West Assembly unit at PT. XYZ. The contingency coefficient was used to calculate the strength of the relationships among variables. The results of this study showed that there is a moderate relationship between knowledge and the the attitude of safe behavior (R: 0,405), the very low relationship between knowledge and action of safe behavior (R: 0,042), and attitude and practice of safe behavior (R: 0,087).The conclusions of this study are the workers knowledge and attitude of safe behavior is quite good but the practice of safe behavior need some improvement. The suggestion of this research is to provide skills and safety training. The management also needs toincreasesafety supervision. Furthermore, managementshould provide punishment and reward in an attempt to increase overall worker safety behavior.Keywords : KAP,measurement, safe behavio