Assessing the Prevalence of Occupational Injury and its Association With Utilization of Personal Protective Equipment Among Workers in Large Scale Metal Manufacturing Factories, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Benti, Abate
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Background: The risk of occupational diseases and injury is increasing from time to time that has become the most prevalent and major public health problem in the world. Globally, there are 271 million work related injuries, and 2 million work-related deaths per year. Metal and engineering industries are identified as one of the five priorities sector by the government of Ethiopia, which is expanding in diversity and number. Work related injuries have become public health importance among industrial workers in Ethiopia. Personal protective equipment are belived to prevent the occurance of injuries. Studies on the prevalence of injury and its association with PPE utilization among metal workers in Ethiopia is limited. Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of injury and its association with the personal protective equipment among workers in large scale metal manufacturing factories in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from Auguest to October, 2016. Methods: Institution based cross sectional study was carried out among 588 metal workers engaged in metal manufacturing factories in Addis Ababa. Five metal manufacturing factories were selected based on their long year service and existing total number of workers. Data was collected by trained data collectors using pretested Amharic version questionnaire through face to face interview. Observation and FGD was done by using Observation check list and FGD guide. The raw data was entered using Epi Info version7 then exported to SPSS version 20 for descriptive statsitcs, bivariate &amp; multivariate analysis. Statistical signficance of 0.05 was considered. Results: The prevalence of occupational injury in one year was 49.9% [95%CI:45.8-53.9]. There were 18 reports with disability from one factory in one year. Respondents age range of 18 to 30 years [AOR=0.42; 95%CI:0.186-0.950], attending primary school [AOR=5.64; 95%CI: 3.049- 10.430] and secondary school [AOR=4.20; 95%CI: 2.567-6.883], work experience of less than 11 years [AOR=3.62; 95%CI: 1.214-10.824], those who had 11 to 20 years work experience [AOR=7.878; 95%CI: 2.596-23.904], workers with no job stress [AOR=0.38; 95%CI: 0.219- 0.668] and workers who didn't use PPE were [AOR=4.84; 95%CI: 2.929-8.012] found to have a statistically significant association with work related injury as compared to their reference categories. Conclusion and recommendation: This study concludes that the prevalence of occupational injury among metal workers was high as compared with the studies done in Addis Ababa metal factories and Mekele small scale industries. The study also showed that respondent's age, educational status, work experience, job stress and PPE use were the significant variables associated with work related injury. There should be quality and adequate supply of PPE for all metal workers. Safety education for metal workers and program based supervision in metal factories is essential.