Abstract:
To be able to change the quality of safe work behavior of a worker is to conduct occupational safety
and health education through the approach of information education and communication in order to
get workers to stop high-risk behavior at work and replace it with safe or low-risk behavior. The aim
of the study is to analyze the impact of information education and communication on safety and
occupational health to improve the knowledge and safe working attitude of car washing workers in
the Tembalang area of Semarang City. This research method uses quasi experiment with pre-test
post-test, sample selection with a total sample of 60 respondents (30 intervention respondents and 30
control group respondents). There is a significant difference when p value <0.05. The results of the
study found pretest knowledge among control treatments p = 0.937, pretest-posttest treatment p =
<0.003, pretest-posttest control p = <0.037, posttest between control treatment p = <0.013, difference
between pretest-posttest between treatment and control p = <0.001. Variable pretest attitude among
control treatments p = 0.963, pretest-posttest treatment p = <0.001, pretest-posttest control p =
<0.883, posttest between control treatments p = 0.042, difference between pretest-posttest between
control treatments p =<0.018. There are significant differences knowledge and attitudes of
respondents before and after the intervention. This means that the provision of information
communication and education on safety and occupational health can increase the knowledge and safe
working attitude of car washing workers.
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