PENERAPAN PENGGUNAAN ALAT PELINDUNG DIRI DI LABORATORIUM TEKNIK GIGI KOTA PEKANBARU

Abstract

Personal protective equipment is a tool to protect workers from direct danger due to work accidents. Dental engineering services carried out in dental engineering laboratories have become an inseparable part of the efforts to provide dental health services with other related health workers. Work accidents that occur in dental technicians include various incidents such as body pain, stiffness, sore fingers, pierced by wires, irritated eyes and work stress and there are still workers who do not wear personal protective equipment while working. The purpose of this study was to determine the application of the use of personal protective equipment in the Dental Engineering Laboratory of Pekanbaru City in 2020. This research method is qualitative by conducting interviews and observations. This research was conducted at the Smile Dental, Riau Dental and Athallah Dental Laboratories in July-August 2020. The informants in this study were 9 employees of the dental engineering laboratory. The results of this study are most informants have good knowledge about personal protective equipment, good attitude of workers in using personal protective equipment, have never conducted training on personal protective equipment and there is no training, personal protective equipment facilities are already available in the laboratory but are not yet complete. The conclusion of this research is that employees' knowledge and attitude are good regarding personal protective equipment, training has never been carried out by employees and personal protective equipment facilities are available in the laboratory but are not yet complete. It is expected that the laboratory will conduct training and equip personal protective equipment so that employees can always apply the use of personal protective equipment while working.   Bibliography          : 8 (1997-2012) Keywords                              : Personal Protective Equipment, Laboratory