Effectiveness study of Health, Safety and Environmental training in Occupational injuries of municipality Workers (Case study: district 4 of Tehran)

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of training courses on environmental hygiene to reduce occupational injuries in municipal workers. This study is descriptive based on its purpose and according to the method of studyis in category of quasi-experimental and intervention studies. The study population included all workers of Tehran 4th District in the area of municipal services, according to declaration of employment office the number of employees is 800 people. Of these, 260 were chosen. Data collection was done using two methods of library and case study. Data was collected through the questionnaire consists of three component including intrapersonal damage, interpersonal damage and transpersonal damage. Then analyze the data using statistical techniques were performed using SPSS version 21. Statistical methods used in this research are included descriptive and inferential statistics. In the inference statistical analysis in order to evaluate and test hypothesis of study, variables were first analyzed using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of normality. Then by hypothesis was validated using independent t-test, ANOVA multivariate test. The results show that training courses of safety, health and environment significantly reducing occupational injuries which affected workers. The effectiveness was observed in all three areas of damage within the individual, interpersonal and Transpersonal (p 0.05). The results obtained from this study suggested that training courses in various fields related to health and safety regularly and courses for workers in various fields, especially municipal workers exposed to more harmful damages by the type of their workwill be held.