| Summary: | The general objective of this research is to determine the fire safety status and fire safety
awareness among workers at Utilities Gebeng (UG). The specific objectives are
to compare the fire safety knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) fire safety level among
workers at UG; to compare the fire safety status of three buildings at UG; to determine
the relationship between fire safety status and fire safety awareness of workers and find
the difference of fire safety awareness based on gender and education level. 109
respondents were involved in this research. Checklist was used to determine fire safety
status. Meanwhile, questionnaire was used to determine fire safety awareness. Checklist
consisted of workplace regulation and management regulation while questionnaire
consisted of 34 questions with two sections. Data were also collected by document review
on several records of UG. From the findings, administration building and Main Control
Building (MCB) obtained 33 scores while Maintenance building achieved 32 scores for
fire safety status. The score on questionnaires showed the majority of respondents had
high score (knowledge= 76.15%, attitude= 54.13%, practice= 77.98%). This is because
the company had practice good fire safety system. There was a significant difference of
fire safety awareness level on knowledge (p=0.001), attitude (p=0.002), and practice
(p=0.001) between permanent and contract workers. There was no significant association
between fire safety status and fire safety awareness. There was a significant difference of
fire safety between awareness males and females workers (p=0.017) and education level
(p=0.001). Although the fire safety status and fire safety awareness level at UG were
high, several measures were recommended to prevent fire incidents from occurring in the
future.
|
|---|