Prevention Guidelines for the Dangers in the Workplace Based on the Behavior Recognition of Students at Nakhon Si Thammarat Seaboard Industrial College

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to: 1) examine dangers that might occur from working environment based on behavior recognition of the students in the Factory Mechanic Department, Nakhon Si Thammarat Seaboard Technical College; 2) study the opinion of experts on how to prevent dangers from working environment based on behavior recognition of these students; and 3) compare state of dangers before and after the prevention guidelines had been put in place. The research sample consisted of 61 students in the Factory Mechanic Department, Nakhon Si Thammarat Seaboard Technical College and 3 experts who gave interviews. The research instruments were an interview guideline and a questionnaire on the dangers that might occur from working environment based on behavior recognition of the students. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and t-test.

The research results indicated that dangers of chemical environment, biological environment, and ergonomics were overall at satisfactory levels. After using the prevention guidelines, it was found that dangers of chemical environment, biological environment, and ergonomics were overall at the highest levels.  Moreover, the hypothesis was tested to compare the difference of the state of dangers before and after the guidelines had been put in place and result showed that there was difference at a .05 level of statistical significance.