Abstract:
The research purposes of participation in preventing marine accident of staff working in ferry at Koh Samui district, Surat Thani province were to 1) study the participation in preventing the marine accident of staff working in ferry at Koh Samui district, Surat Thani province 2) compare a level of the participation in preventing the marine accident of staff working in ferry at Koh Samui district, Surat Thani province classified by gender, age, working experience, educational background, and working position 3) set the guidelines to raise a level of the participation in preventing the marine accident of staff working in ferry at Koh Samui district, Surat Thani province. The sample group was 175 staff working in ferry at Koh Samui district, Surat Thani province. The research instrument was the questionnaire and the statistics used to analyze the data were frequency, mean, standard deviation, t - test, and F - test.
The results were that most of the sample group were male below 30 years old and got below diploma. Their working experience was less than 5 years in a section of navigation. Their participation level in preventing the marine accident overall was neutral namely the inspection of ferry body for its safety, the inspection of pier for its safety, the practice following ferry rules, the information for passengers safety, and the campaign for prevention of the marine accident. The staff differing in gender, age, educational background, working experience, and working position participated differently in the prevention of the marine accident in a statistical significant difference at .05.
Since their problem was a lack of support for the participation from their chief, they suggested that the chief should allow them to participate in the ferry operations together with the chief and experts employed from the company outside. The guidelines to raise a level of the participation in preventing the marine accident of staff working in ferry were that there should provide particular trainings to staff working in different sections very often so that they could acquire more knowledge and skills and also allow them to participate in preventing the marine accident.