Knowledge Regarding Occupational Health Hazards and Safety Measures among the Computer Users of Banks in Banepa Municipality

Abstract

Occupational safety and health is one of the key issues today, with growing industrialization and labor market. Contemporary technology revolution has made our lives with so much convenient that people would hardly imagine life without computer, internet, cable TV, cellular phone various tool and gadgets. These technologies including computer have made life so much easy but they have created many risks to human health like computer health hazards.

Objective: The objective of study was to assess Knowledge regarding Ooccupational Health Hazards and Safety Measures among the Computer Users of Banks in Banepa Municipality

Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was done among 100 adults between 20-60 years of age of Banepa Municipality by random sampling technique with the use of structured and semi-structured questionnaire. Pre-test was done on 10% (10) of the respondents.

Results: This study show that majority 64% had moderate knowledge, 29% had adequate knowledge and only 7% had inadequate knowledge regarding occupational health hazards and safety measures that is computers health hazards. There was no statistically significant difference in mean knowledge score with selected variables.

Conclusion:This study shows that most of the respondents had moderate knowledge on computer health hazards. Further study can be done to identify the prevalence of computer health hazards and effect of long term.