Abstract:
The objective of this research is to develop and evaluate the efficiency of the occupational
health and safety management in vocational training institution. The researchers will follow the
guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems (ILO-OSH 2001), and divide
the research into 2 main phases:
The first phase is to identify the appropriate type of management in the vocational training
institution by using the Delphi Techniques. There will be a total of 19 experts involved in this
activity, who come from both public and private institutions.
The second phase is to evaluate the efficiency of the occupational health and safety
management. Researchers will use the existing system that is currently implemented at Songkhla
Technology located at Songkhla province. The researchers have developed a training system
which emphasize on the practicality concepts that will align the trainees awareness on the
knowledge and skills required for the occupational health and safety management. The trainees
will be evaluated on the achievement of this coursed by the E1/E2 theory, and also the result of
the practical exams, where the passing score is set at 80. The researcher will use t-test by
comparing the evaluations of the school management teams, professors, and students, with the
sample size of 332
The outcome of the research shows that there are 5 elements to the occupational health and
safety management, i.e. 1) Policy 2) Organizing 3) Planning and Implementation 4) Evaluation
5) Action for Improvement. The efficiency of the practicality concepts got an output of 82.33/81.75, and average practical exam result of 83.5, which demonstrates a higher result
compared to the standard set. The result of the t-test comparison from the evaluations of school
managements, professors, and students shows that the average result is better by 4.20 points after
the system implementations, where the previous average score was at 1.38. Moreover, the p-value
from this t-test is 0.01, which shows that it is statistically significant.