Safety and health awareness in the workplace among oil palm plantation workers

Nowadays, the issue of occupational safety and health is of great concern in our country. The agriculture sector shows the second higher number on the incident in the workplace after manufacturing sector. This is because employees lack awareness of safety and health in the workplace that can lead to increasing accident. Therefore, this study aims to identify the safety and health awareness in the workplace among oil palm plantation workers. The independent variables in this study will be attitudes, subjective norms, behavioural control, knowledge and practices. While the dependent variable is the safety and health awareness of workers in oil palm plantations. A quantitative research design will be used and the questionnaire will be adapted based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and KAP model. Simple-Random Sampling will be employed to select 180 oil palm plantation workers. SPSS version 26.0 will be used to analyse reliability tests, descriptive and correlation analysis. Based on the result, this study also explained that all the variables have high mean score. Result also show that there is significant relationship between attitudes, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, practices and knowledge with safety and health awareness in the workplace among oil palm plantation workers. Hopefully this study will increase the awareness of workers in oil palm plantations on safety and health issues although it is difficult to apply in employment but it will help improve the quality of labour and high workers.