Occupational safety awareness measuring tool among agricultural workers in North Macedonia

Trifunov, Zoran and Zeqiri, Izet and Lutovska, Monika and Kjosevski, Stevan and Kitanovski, Vladimir (2024) Occupational safety awareness measuring tool among agricultural workers in North Macedonia. In: Conference on Mechanical Engineering Technologies and Applications - COMETa 2024, 16 Nov 2024, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering East Sarajevo.

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Abstract

Agricultural workers in North Macedonia are a marginalized group of informal and self-employed workers in a family business, with no legal employment documents, health insurance, and limited access to Оccupational Safety and Health (OSH) resources. The incidence rate of injuries in agriculture where children are often among the victims, imposes the need to create a valid Occupational Safety Awarеness Measuring Tool (OSAMT), what is the main goal of this study. To develop the OSAMT, a combined method was applied with questions created by OSH experts and direct interviews with a sample of 33 workers from the eastern region of North Macedonia. A detailed literature review was also applied. The Final version consists of 42 items distributed among 4 factors: аvailability of OSH information, understanding of OSH, assessment of information quality and use of Information. Тhe sucсess of the model was confirmed by a final confirmatory analysis. OSAMT is a valid tool for measuring OSH awareness among agricultural workers, that can serve as a benefit for improving OSH and encouraging education in order to reduce the high incidence of work-related accidents and deaths in North Macedonia.
Key words: Agricultural workers, Awareness, Occupational safety, Measuring tool

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Engineering and Technology > Mechanical engineering
Divisions:	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Depositing User:	Zoran Trifunov
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2025 07:21
Last Modified:	09 Jan 2025 07:21
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/35394

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