Preliminary study on the investigation of individual and organizational factors with the use of personal hearing protector (PHP) among industrial workers

• Main Authors: Fauzan, Nur Syafiqah, Zuki, Siti Aishah Mohd, Sukadarin, Ezrin Hani, Widia, Mirta
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Correlation; Effectiveness; Hearing protection; Hearing protectors; Organizational aspects; Workers
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/5.0189961

Wearing personal hearing protectors (PHP) such as earmuffs and earplugs during work is a measure of preventing and reducing noise-induced hearing loss to the high exposure of the worker in noisy work areas. The study aims to determine the relationship between individual and organisational factors with personal hearing protectors among industrial workers. Forty-five (45) respondents among industrial workers were selected and participated in this study. A set of validated questionnaires was used to determine the level of individual and organisational factors and the level of PHP use among industrial workers. Pearson Correlation was used to examine the relationship between individual and organisational factors and PHP usage among industrial workers. The result obtained revealed a significant positive correlation between all variables, such as interpersonal influence, situational factor, and perceived benefit with the usage of PHP as these variables reported the same value (r=0.95, p=0.00). Besides, there is also a significant relationship between the perceived barrier and perceived self-efficacy with PHP usage (r=0.82, p=0.00); (r=0.97, p=0.00). The current finding shows that perceived self-efficacy reported the highest score that correlates with the usage of PHP. Therefore, the presented findings may provide information on the factors affecting PHP use among workers. Thus, this study would create awareness among workers in wearing the PHP to minimize the increased number of workers diagnosed with noise related hearing disorder.