Awareness of Occupational Hazards and Utilization of Safety Measures among Welders in Aksum and Adwa Towns, Tigray Region, Ethiopia, 2013
Table 4
Logistic regression analyses of the relative effect of sociodemographic and environmental variables on PPE use, among Axum and Adwa welding workers, September 2013 ().
Variables
PPE use
Yesa
No
Crude OR (95% CI)
Adjusted OR (95% CI)
(%)
(%)
Age
Less than 20 years
55 (88.7)
7 (11.3)
1.00
1.00
20–24 years
45 (71.4)
18 (28.6)
3.14 (1.21, 8.19)
25–29 years
78 (89.7)
9 (10.3)
0.91 (0.32, 2.58)
Greater than 29 years
47 (97.9)
1 (2.1)
0.17 (0.02, 1.41)
Level of education
Primary school
43 (87.8)
6 (12.2)
1.00
1.00
Secondary school
162 (88.5)
21 (11.5)
0.35 (0.11, 1.14)
2.60 (0.67, 10.01)
Certificate and above
20 (71.4)
8 (28.9)
0.32 (0.13, 0.83)
13.20 (10.65, 16.46)
Work experiences
<1 year
27 (71.1)
11 (28.9)
1.00
1.00
1–5 years
94 (85.5)
16 (14.5)
0.42 (0.17, 1.01)
0.24 (0.06, 0.91)
>5 years
104 (92.9)
8 (7.1)
0.19 (0.07, 0.52)
0.03 (0.003, 0.34)
Safety training
No
164 (82.8)
34 (17.2)
1.00
1.00
Yes
61 (98.4)
1 (1.6)
0.08 (0.01, 0.59)
0.02 (0.01, 0.09)
Availability of work regulation
No
35 (63.6)
20 (36.4)
1.00
1.00
Yes
190 (92.7)
15 (7.3)
0.12 (0.65, 0.30)
0.06 (0.02, 0.21)
Availability of work guideline
No
40 (72.7)
15 (27.3)
1.00
Yes
184 (90.2)
20 (9.8)
0.29 (0.14, 0.62)
Significant at value <0.001; significant at value <0.01; significant at value <0.05. Yesa = knowledgeable; no = less knowledgeable.
