Open AccessANALYS IS OF QUALITY LEVEL HEALTH OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SCAVENGERS AT ALAK LANDFILL IN KUPANG CITY IN 2021
Author(s) -
Yusanti Radinan,
Jacob M. Ratu,
Johny A. R. Salmun
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of research publications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2708-3578
DOI - 10.47119/ijrp100971320222962
Subject(s) - workload , environmental health , quality (philosophy) , occupational safety and health , mental health , business , garbage , physical health , medicine , engineering , waste management , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , psychiatry , operating system
Quality of occupational health is an effort to maintain and improve the degree of physical and mental health, which is as high as possible for workers. Scavengers are people who scavenge and make a living by picking up used goods, such as plastic, used cardboard, canned drinks, and so on, then selling them to entrepreneurs who will process them back into useful goods. The job of scavengers will be at great risk of exposure to disease because they always interact with garbage. In this study, the indicators or dimensions that make up the quality of occupational health can be seen from two aspects, namely physical and mental. The purpose of this study is to analyze the level of occupational health of scavengers at the Alak TPA in Kupang City in 2021. This research is a descriptive quantitative research type, with a sample of 37 people. The results showed that most of the Alak TPA scavengers had low quality of occupational health. This study shows that it is important to improve the quality of occupational health through efforts to manage time and workload well and maintain cleanliness at work.