Abstract:
Summary
Background: Agriculture in Ethiopia is the foundation of the country's economy, accounting
for 46.3 percent of the nations of gross domestic product (GDP), 83.9% of exports, and 80% of
total employment and remains the Ethiopian economy's most important sector. Accordingly,
state farms received a large share of the country's resources for agriculture; from 1982 to since
then, this totaled about 43 percent of the government's agricultural investment. However, such
benefit opportunities are come with most hazardous work in which working force engaging their
daily activities due to use of various kinds of chemicals and pesticides, poor working condition,
low provisions of health and safety services. Even though, agriculture has been much
contribution to the economy of the country its job has determinant problems on health of
workers, environments due to low levels of awareness and safety practice about the existing
Occupational hazards.
Objective: To assess knowledge, practice and associated factors of occupational hazards
among agricultural state farm workers, West Arsi zone, Southeast Ethiopia, 2016.
Methods: Institutional cross sectional study will be conducted to assess knowledge, practice
and associated factors of occupational hazards among agricultural state farm workers, West
Arsi zone. The study will be conducted among 444 workers from all state farm sites by using
stratified sampling method due to the heterogeneity of the study to the outcome variables
followed by simple random sample. The data will be collected by five data collectors and two
supervisors after two days training with interview, administered questionnaire and observational
check list. Both bivariate and multivariate analysis will be conducted primarily to check which
variables have association with the dependent variables individually and control effect of
confounding.
Work plan and cost of project: A total of 24,877.60 ETH Birr is required to carry out this study.
The study will end up with four months (January - April 2016).
Key work: Knowledge; Practice; Occupational hazards; Agricultural state farm; Ethiopia
