Utilization Of Personal Protective Equipment And Associated Factors Among Building Construction Workers In Addis Abeba Ethiopia2019.

Back ground: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is a material, device, equipment or clothingrnwhich is used or worn by a worker to protect them from exposure or contact with any harmfulrnmaterial or energy which may cause injury, disease or even death. Use of personal protectivernequipment is a universal legal requirement to protect workers against occupational injuries andrnillnesses in their workplace. The international labor office estimates that every year there are somern125 million work related accidents, 220, 000 of them are fatal. rnObjective: This study assessed personal protective equipment utilization and associated factorsrnamong building construction workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2019. rnMethods: Institution based cross sectional survey was conducted on the selected construction sitesrnon April 2019. Data was collected by using pre tested Amharic questioner from 206 study subjectsrnwith response rate of 100% via face to face interview. EPI info version 7.1 and SPSS version 25rnwas used for data cleaning and analysis respectively. Independent variables with P

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