Kajian Kesedaran Staf UTM Terhadap Keselamatan dan Kesihatan di Tempat Kerja

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of awareness among UTM staff towards safety and health at the workplace. The respondents are 318 academic and non–academic staff attached to faculties that use high risk equipment or substances, namely the Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Natural Resources. Questionaires were used to obtain data which were then analyzed descriptively based on frequently, percentage and mean in order to determine the level of awareness of the respondents towards safety and health. To examine the relationships between demographic factors and respondents awareness towards safety and health, the Pearson Correlation was used. The results showed that UTM staff had high level awareness of safety and health based on the overall mean score of 3.97. Factors which influence staff’s level of awareness towards safety and health that were studied were policy, procedure, equipment, training, Safety and Health Committee and commitment as well as working environment. The results show that dominant factors which influenced the level of awareness of UTM staff towards safety and health were training and policy. Findings also show the demographic factors did not influence the level of awareness, whether directly or indirecty. Finally, this study concludes that in order to raise the level of awareness towards safety and health, the University’s administration should increase the number of training programmes, safety and health awareness campaigns, offer continous or periodic safety and health programmes and enforce the use of safety equipments by staff involved in high risk tasks.