Awareness of Occupational Hazards and Utilization of Safety Measures among Welders in Aksum and Adwa Towns, Tigray Region, Ethiopia, 2013
Table 3
Logistic regression analyses of the relative effect of sociodemographic and environmental variables on knowledge level, among Axum and Adwa welding workers, September 2013 ().
Variables
Knowledge (≥mean score and <mean score)
Yesa
No
Crude OR (95% CI)
Adjusted OR (95% CI)
(%)
(%)
Age
Less than 20 years
42 (67.7)
20 (32.3)
1.00
20–24 years
41 (65.1)
22 (34.9)
0.89 (0.42, 1.87)
25–29 years
39 (44.8)
48 (55.2)
0.39 (0.19, 0.76)
Greater than 29 years
23 (47.9)
25 (52.1)
0.44 (0.20, 0.95)
Level of education
Primary school
31 (63.3)
18 (36.7)
1.00
Secondary school
100 (54.6)
83 (45.4)
0.70 (0.36, 1.34)
Certificate and above
14 (50.0)
14 (50.0)
0.58 (0.23, 1.49)
Work experiences
<1 year
25 (65.8)
13 (34.2)
1.00
1–5 years
70 (63.6)
40 (36.4)
0.91 (0.42, 1.96)
>5 years
50 (44.6)
62 (55.6)
0.42 (0.19, 0.90)
0.44 (0.19, 0.99)
Work type
Wood work
92 (70.2)
39 (29.8)
1.00
1
Metal work
53 (41.1)
76 (58.9)
0.029 (0.18, 0.49)
0.38 (0.22, 0.65)
Safety training
No
123 (62.4)
76 (37.6)
1.00
1
Yes
22 (35.5)
40 (64.5)
0.34 (0.19, 0.61)
0.33 (0.17, 0.63)
Availability of work regulation
No
41 (74.5)
14 (25.5)
1.00
1
Yes
104 (50.7)
101 (49.3)
0.35 (0.18, 0.68)
0.31 (0.15, 0.67)
Availability of work guideline
No
38 (69.1)
17 (30.9)
1.00
Yes
107 (52.5)
97 (47.5)
0.49 (0.26, 0.93)
Significant at value <0.001; significant at value <0.01; significant at value <0.05. Yesa = knowledgeable; no = less knowledgeable.
