Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment in Material Engineering Laboratory

S.M. Dodo¹ , S.A. Abdulkadir² , Malgwi G.S³ , V. Ibrahim⁴ , B.G. Jahun⁵

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.7 , Issue.2 , pp.45-50, Jun-2020

Online published on Jun 30, 2020

Copyright © S.M. Dodo, S.A. Abdulkadir, Malgwi G.S, V. Ibrahim, B.G. Jahun . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
The laboratory is a workplace where people are exposed to different levels of hazards, a place where a healthy and safe working process or procedures are required, safety is important as workers are liable to many risks due to the nature of the working environment. This study identifying potential hazards assessed the risk associated based on demographic features among students using Material Engineering. Hazards were identified and where assessed based on the Systematic random sampling technique. A sample size of 80 was considered due to a confidence level of 1.96 and a margin of error of 0.05. Knowledge, Attitude, and safety practices where collected based on age, gender, education level, and laboratory experience distribution among the 70 students and analyzed using Non-parametric analysis of variance test to see if there is a significant difference among the demographic features of users. Correlation between safety practices with attitude analyzed. Results show that age, educational level, and laboratory experience has a significant effect on the attitude, knowledge, and safety practice observed in the laboratory with p-values of 0.02, 0.044, 0.003, and 0.0001 respectively. Correlation between safety practice and both attitude and knowledge was positively related with correlation coefficient and p-value of rs =0.270 and p-value 0.024 and 𝑟a = 0.275 and p-value = 0.021 indicating a low Positive correlation between both knowledge and Attitude with safety practice, concluding that laboratory safety practice improves as knowledge toward hazards increases and good attitudes towards precautions improves.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Hazard, Attitude, safety practice, Gender, education level, experience

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