The Association between Safety Training Experience and Work Accident Among Small Boat Fisherman: A Case Study in Belawan, Medan, Indonesia

Abstract

Work accident among small boat fisherman remains public health issues that had been reported among 248 death cases and 564 missing cases throughout 2002-2018. Human factor contributed 43% triggered work accident among small boat fisherman. Several studies elsewhere reported correlation between safety training experience with work accident however there is limited study found with safety training experience and work accident among small boat fisherman. This study aims is to investigate the association between safety training experience and work accident among small boat fisherman: a case study in Belawan , Medan, Indonesia. A case control study was applied in this study with cases having experience in work accident. Purposive sampling was used to collect samples and face-to-face interviews were conducted with trained enumerators. We run logistic regression to analyze data as a multivariate analysis. A total of 98 fisherman was selected with 49 cases and 49 controls. This result found that there is association between safety training experience and work accident among small boat fisherman ( Pvalue = 0.000). Fisherman who had safety training experience is less frequency to have work accident during fishing (Odd ratio: 0.014, 95%CI + 0.002-0.083). Developing safety training among fisherman is an important role to prevent work accident with enhancing occupational health unit in Public Health Center.