Abstract:
This research was intended to study about the safety awareness of the industrial workers in Bangpu industrial estate concerned with difference gender, age, education level and experience. Total 382 workers in 2002 were samples for the study. The research instrument was the questionnaire concerning the safety awareness of the industrial workers in 5 topics ; machine and tool, electricity, environment, fire and chemical. The reliability of the questionnaire was .82 The findings were as follows : 1. The workers in Bangpu industrial estate had the highest level of the safety awareness in the topic concerning fire, and had high level of the safety awareness in the rest of the topics. The level for all topics overall was high also. 2. The workers of difference gender in Bangpu industrial estate showed statistically significant at the .05 level of the safety awareness in the topic concerning fire, chemical and for all topics overall. But the other topic showed no difference of the safety awareness of the industrial workers. 3. The different aged workers in Bangpu industrial estate showed statistically significant at the .05 level of the safety awareness in environment topic. But the other topics and for all topics overall showed no difference of the safety awareness of the industrial workers. 4. The workers with different education level in Bangpu industrial estate showed statistically significant at the .05 level of the safety awareness concerning the topic of fire. But the other topics and for all topics overall showed no difference of the safety awareness of the industrial workers. 5. The workers who had less than 2 years and more than 5 years experience in Bangpu industrial estate showed statistically significant at the .05 level of the safety awareness in the topics of machine and tool. The workers who had experience more than 5 years and between 2-5 years in Bangpu industrial estate showed statistically significant at the .05 level of the safety awareness in chemical topic. But the workers in Bangpu industrial estate with different experience showed no difference of the safety awareness in the other topics and for all topics overall.