A Qualitative Study of Barriers to Personal Protective Equipment Use among Laundry Workers in Government Hospitals, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Table 1

Barriers to PPE use among laundry staff of Government Hospitals in Hawassa, Ethiopia, April 2019.

Main themes	Subthemes (category)	Subcategories
Organizational-level barriers	PPE unavailability	Lack of ready access to full complement PPE in the workplace
		Poor quality of PPE:
		Lack of comfort
		Lack of durability
		Lack of fit
	A disharmonious work environment	Insufficient training
		Poor communication between workers and managers
		Productivity demands
		Lax control and monitor for PPE compliance
		Workplace policies
Individual-level barriers	The belief of PPE interference with work	Concerns of PPE interfering with work
	Low perception of susceptibility	Perceptions of beneficial age-related changes such as safe work practices
		Long service years without any recorded workplace injury