Safety Assessment of Chemical Use in Muang Sam Sip Districts Ubon Ratchathani Province

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to assess Safety Assessment of Chemical Use in Muang Sam Sip Districts Ubon Ratchathani Province. The probabilistic sampling technique was employed to select the representative from 25 districts. Muang Sam Sip District with the most cultivation and chemical use was selected. A volunteer from each household voluntarily participated in the project. Therefore, a total of 213 people participated in the study. Data were collected by a questionnaire that was tested for quality. The content validity and reliability values were 0.74 and 0.82, respectively. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, frequency, percentage. The results showed that the number of people at risk of exposure to chemicals used in the aphid control such as abamectin, triazophos; organophosphate; aphid killing chemicals such as imidacloprid, and insecticides such as carbosulfan were 179, 178, 187, 184, and 181 people, representing 84.8 %, 83.6 %, 87.8 %, 84.4 % and 85.0 %, respectively. When assessing the risk, it was found that the risk of chemical exposure was at a high level. In addition, the general data in terms of occupation, types of crops, income, herbicide use, aphidicide use, fungicide use, termiticide use, mite killer use, worm killer use, types of chemicals, frequency of chemicals use and hours of use and exposure to chemicals were significantly associated with the risk of exposure to agricultural chemicals at the 0.05 level. The correlation values from the chi-square test were 289.48, 174.28, 113.13, 53.91, 36.80, 39.84, 47.70, 69.65, 37.18, 53.31, 190.25 and 285.63, respectively.