Physical Quality of Air and Sick Building Syndrome in Office Employees of “X” Company in Jakarta
Author(s) -
Rama Putra Effendi,
Widodo Hariyono
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
makara journal of health research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2356-3664
pISSN - 2356-3656
DOI - 10.7454/msk.v18i2.4072
Subject(s) - sick building syndrome , quality (philosophy) , business , environmental health , medicine , environmental science , indoor air quality , physics , environmental engineering , quantum mechanics
\udPhysical symptoms had led to the suggestion that a disease called Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) occured to the office of “X” Company in the city of Jakarta. This research that used a random sampling technique examined the physical air quality of the “X” Company, such as indoor temperature and humidity aspects, the SBS cases of 90 workers. Research results on the Company “X” office workers showed that, (1) 47.8% workers had cases of SBS; and, (2) a value of 0.714 was acquired from the result of bivariate analysis using Chi square statistics program with p value of 0.325 and RP of 95 percent. This signifies that there were no relations between indoor temperature and humidity with the SBS cases of the Company “X” workers in Jakarta City. Possibilities of other factors were found to trigger the SBS symptoms such as chemical and microbiological factors (from work tools and facilities), and psychosocial factor (from the workers themselves
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