PENGARUH PENYULUHAN DENGAN METODE CERAMAH DAN DISKUSI KELOMPOK TENTANG ALAT PELINDUNG DIRI TERHADAP PENINGKATAN PERILAKU PEKERJA LAS DI KECAMATAN PERCUT SEI TUAN TAHUN 2013

Abstract

There are some informal welding shops in Percut Sei Tuan Subdistrict, especially at Kelurahan Kenangan
and Kenangan Baru. From the preliminary survey, it has been found that there are still many employees who
do not use Personal Protection Devices (APD). The objective of the research was to know the influence of
speech and group discussion methods in counseling on the increase of welding employees’ behavior. The
type of the research was quasi-experiment with pretest-posttest group design; the research was conducted
from February until May, 2013. The population was 42 welding employees at Kelurahan Kenangan and
Kenangan Baru, and all of them were used as the samples. The result of bivariate analysis showed that there
was the influence of speech method (p=0.000) and group discussion (p=0.000) in counseling on the increase
of the employees’ knowledge, attitude.and action. The result of multivariate analysis showed that group
discussion was better than speech in increasing the employees’ knowledge and attitude; it was identified by
the high level of the average grade in group discussion: 6.67>4.67 for knowledge and 18.48>13.00 for
attitude (p<0.05), While the action aspect showed no significant difference to the use of personal protective
devices by value (p = 1.000). It is recommended that the management of the Health Office in Deli Serdang
District as the policy maker should encourage all Public Health Centers (Puskesmas) in their working area
to carry out the UKK (work health effort) program in order to increase the behavior of employees in
informal sector, especially about personal protection devices and the Department of Labor in order to more
actively monitor the informal sector workers especially workers in the use of welding personal protective
devices. The owners of welding shops should provide personal protection devices to the employees
according to their specialization and supervise workers to wear personal protective devices while working