Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on the Use of Personal Protective Equipment to Small Mining Industry at Kaboha Ward in Geita Region-Tanzania
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Knowledge, attitude, practice, personal protective equipment, small mining Industry, TanzaniaAbstract
Background: Knowledge, attitude and practice on the use of personal protective equipment’s (PPEs) to small scale mines helps to reduce the risk of getting diseases like tuberculosis, lung cancers and difficulty in breathing. All these may be associated with improper wearing of personal protective equipment like overalls, gumboots, gloves, helmets and goggles at the working places.
Method: The structured questionnaires were used during data collection by providing questionnaires to the workers, then, they filled them according to the questions which needed them to respond. The sample size employed was 120 participants from Kaboha and Busolwa wards working at Kiboha ward mining industry. Many workers’ ages ranged 26-35 years. Data analysis has been performed by using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26.
Results: The findings show that 88.4 % of the mining workers had knowledge on wearing PPE and 11.6 % of the workers had no knowledge on wearing the PPE. In practice, it has been revealed that 83.6% of miners wore PPE improperly and only 16.4% wore properly. The low practice is attributed to the workers’ attitude as 80.8% perceived as normal and 19.2% perceived as not normal, despite the fact that 76.6% received training.
Conclusion: In regard to the findings, it shows that the workers at Kiboha ward mining are not wearing properly the PPE; hence, they suffer from diseases and infections like tuberculosis, lung cancers, and difficulty in breathing. Some of them become injured to different parts of their bodies like legs, heads, and hands.
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