Questions

I am very sure

I am somewhat sure

I need more information

I can find the toilet in this building.

26

15

46

1.

I can identify the three ways chemicals enter the body.

21

33

28

2.

I can describe different approaches to reducing or eliminating hazards from the workplace.

5

33

47

3.

I can talk about ways to use personal protective equipment (PPE) and recognize when it may not protect workers.

11

26

45

4.

I know what kind of questions to ask workers and supervisors to find out if there are health and safety hazards in a shoe factory.

10

22

51

Questions

Part One

Part Two

I am very sure

I am somewhat sure

I need more information

I learned ___ of what I know about this in the 4 day training workshop

most

some

a little

1.

I can identify the three ways chemicals enter the body.

81

2

1

57

25

2

2.

I can describe different approaches to reducing or eliminating hazards from the workplace.

64

16

3

62

22

0

3.

I can talk about ways to use personal protective equipment (PPE) and recognize when it may not protect workers.

68

12

4

56

22

1

4.

I know what kind of questions to ask workers and supervisors to find out if there are health and safety hazards in a shoe factory.

64

16

1

51

27

1

5.What are ways to get more information about health and safety problems at work?

Frequency

Hand bills and relative books about chemical hazard and other knowledge of chemical

23

Training

20

Interviewing with workers, consulting, taking part in the factory inspection directly

18

Inquiring and listening to the supervisor for Health & Safety warnings; information offered by the management.

18

Inspection; on site investigation of environment in the working area

17

Thinking

10

MSDS

10

Propaganda Board, bulletin board, blackboard newspaper, announcement to worker, special column for occupational health and safety .

8

Gaining through practice

7

Propaganda by leaders, transmitting by supervisors

7

Taking parting in lectures by relative specialists, consulting professionals and doctors from occupational disease preventing and treatment center

5

Wearing PPE

5

Safety poster or signs

4

Internet

4

Reading publications of some organisations and the factory

3

Publication subscribed by the factory

3

Consulting relative organizations like OHS Department and Labor Department

3

Inquiring Non Government Organizations

3

Learning about the scope and details of work

2

Consulting positively the department of labor safety in the factory

2

Looking up medical record and hospital record from environmental protection and quarantine department and clinic

2

Collecting information about health and safety

2

Inquiring trade union

2

Learning about it through the propaganda and education offered by OHS department

2

Identifying the effect and limit of noise

1

Fire fighting facility and awareness of it

1

Hazard of dust

1

Visiting other factories (Learning from others' strong points to offset our weakness)

1

Asking for handing out security manual, looking up pamphlets

1

Presenting questions

1

Employees’ Manual

1

Getting information from the trainers for new employee

1

Working environment

1

First aid equipment at working area

1

Preventing measurement in the area with chemicals

1

Safety device of machinery equipments

1

Learning about workers’ awareness of health and safety

1

Whether the chemical is toxic, off odor and corrosive

1

Establishing information department on the job site

1

Making and dispatching short and easy message

1

Learning about the importance of chemicals’ hazard to human body

1

In virtue of apparatus and instruments

1

Looking for information from library

1

Regular medical exam

1

Happy and concentrated at work. Treating work with happy mood

1

Devoted when working so as to prevent yourself from the damage by machine

1

Be aware of the hazard around at anytime. Do not violate operation regulations at work.

1

6. What are different activities health and safety committees can do to solve health and safety problems on the job?

Frequency

Educating and training workers

27

Propaganda and persuading

12

Preventing from hazards and supplying PPE

11

Learning about working situation. Inspecting the unsafe factors and potential safety hazard

9

Protecting environment, improving working environment, machine and procedure.

8

Exchanging views with workers regularly and learning about workers

7

Wearing PPE(Ear plug for those exposed to noise, masks and gloves for those exposed to chemicals and glove for those exposed to heat)

6

Propaganda Board, bulletin board, blackboard newspaper

6

Consulting supervisors to seek for help

5

Replacing with chemicals of lower hazard or no hazard to body.

4

Cooperating with local government and labor safety department to seek solutions

4

Marking with tag, banner and charts in the workshop

3

Administrative methods

3

On site demonstration and guidance

3

Organizing workers and let them present questions. Let workers take part in management

3

Lectures by scholars and specialists. Safety consultant.

3

Handing out materials about health and safety

2

Improving health and safety problems as soon as possible and send relative documents to indicate relative departments.

2

Establishing health and safety groups in the factory

2

Give classes to supervisors chronically.

1

Find relative departments to have exam and repair.

1

Self-handling (such as wash with clean water if the chemicals spilled onto hands.)

1

Reducing working stress as much as possible

1

Have regular spot checks among workers

1

To exchange views with injured workers at work because they are the direct victims.

1

Reviewing incidents to draw lessons

1

Presenting suggestions to supervisors

1

Strengthening managing in the factory

1

Regular medical exam

1

Consulting environmental protection and quarantine department.

1

Organizing trade union

1

Exhibitions

1

Regular review meetings

1

Supervising and urging relative departments to label chemicals

1

Establishing relative regulations

1

Regular machine checks

1

Increasing equipments of less hazard

1

Increasing safety equipments in the factory area

1

Learning about relative laws and regulations

1

Accepting complaints and assisting with specific cases

1

Cooperating with NGO outside the factory. Communicating with each other to exchange views and hold training together

1

5. What are ways to get more information about health and safety problems at work?

Frequency

Interviewing and communicating with workers, Listening to workers’ suggestion and opinion

58

Inspecting the potential safety hazards in the workshop; learning about working environment

47

Looking up relative materials, publications or book instruments

23

NGO

20

Observing, thinking, summarizing and practicing at work

17

Inquiring supervisors

16

Training and guiding

15

Occupational health and safety committee and its member

12

Go to the workshop for checking, monitoring and measuring

10

Using mail boxes and telephones (there should have security measures).

10

Specific hazards (like noise, chemicals and electricity)

9

Presenting questions, following up and investigating until the problems are resolved

8

Suggestion box for health and safety problems

6

Evaluating, monitoring , and supervising

6

Accepting complaints from workers and get trust from them

6

Contact with technicians and consulting specialists

5

Clients and brands

5

Governments

5

Warning signs, pictures, tags and precautions

3

Relative communities, organizations, departments and professional adversary bodies

3

Relative laws and regulations

3

Collecting information

3

Drawing a composite map

3

Inquiring those have been trained about health and safety

2

Questionnaire

2

Appraisal results from other safety organizations

1

Self inspection

1

Media

1

Criticism and suggestions from persons of other factories

1

Medical exam records

1

Factory regulations

1

Internet

1

6. What are different activities health and safety committees can do to solve health and safety problems on the job?

Frequency

Engineering controls

29

PPE

24

Training

22

Administrative controls

22

Regular and irregular inspection and patrol to working area (To find problems)

16

Reducing accident potential, protecting workers benefits, resolving problems

14

Regular reviewing and following up of improvements

10

Propaganda and persuading

9

Negotiating with boss and suggesting the employer to make improvements

8

Interviews

8

Establishing suggestion box (to encourage workers to say more), accepting complaints

8

Studying and analyzing problems and presenting solutions

7

Consulting with management to resolve problems. Seeking for supports from management from all aspects (finance, rights and place)

7

Establishing a complete administrative regulations and plans

6

Seeking for help from trade union and local government

5

Collecting and sorting out information

4

Monitoring

4

Adjusting working time and jobs

3

Evaluation

3

Inspecting

2

Action

1

Propagating the importance of whole workshop environment by letting more and more workers take part in

1

Reflection

1

Full time staff work for the committee

1

Preventing

1

Asking for the involvement of clients and brands

1

Seeking for help form NGO

1

Seeking for support from workers

1

Offering information

1

Protection of law

1

Complaining to relative departments by legal ways

1

Discussions about health and safety

1

Do the jobs that the committee should be responsible for

1

Hospitals

1

1. Reflecting on everything we have done, what topic or activity did you like best?

Frequency

Factory inspection and on site practice

31

Communication

21

Ergonomics

20

Chemical hazards

18

Stress

17

Noise

9

All the topics

9

Discussion of establishing and operating health and safety committee

5

5

Fire preventing and controlling

3

Workshop and group discussion

3

Teaching method

3

Heat

1

Picture explaining

1

Methods for controlling hazard

1

Hazard map

1

Ice breaker

1

Sexual harassment

1

2. What did you like the least?

Frequency

None

36

Bad translation for some parts

7

Lecture of law

7

The time was too short

6

Noise

3

No noon break or very short noon break

3

Monitoring of low hot press

3

Rotating seats or changing rooms

2

Some topic were too simple and not very clear due to limited time

2

Long reporting

1

Ergonomics

1

Higher management did not give support

1

Could not communicate with instructors with words

1

Need more cases about women’s stress since women face more stress than men

1

The schedule was too tight

1

Sleeping on the class

1

Lack of courage myself

1

Too much introduction and explanation on activities

1

The class was too long

1

The lecture of communication was too short

1

Lunch

1

The lecture of occupational disease was stiff

1

The class finished too late

1

The break time was too boring. Is it possible to play some music to let us relax?

1

Some staff members of the factory did not know the exact situation of the site and talked about silly things

1

The information was not very detailed.

1

3.What was the most important thing that you learned in the training?

Frequency

Knowledge about occupational health and safety

15

Knowledge about chemicals—Hazard and control

14

Ergonomics

12

Identifying and handling OSH problems at work and their advantages and disadvantages

12

Noise

8

Establishing of health and safety committee and its construction and significance

6

Electricity

5

Communication skill

4

Heat

4

The importance of OSH committee and improving working environment. Cordiality toward OSH.

4

Stress

3

Learning about workers’ awareness and sense of devotion toward OSH

3

Teaching skill

3

Awareness of self protection and prevention

3

Integrating theory with practice, on site inspection

3

Preventing and improving; engineering control

3

Importance of safety

2

Knowledge of fire control

2

Be aware of the importance of occupational health and safety

2

How to monitor and resolve potential safety hazard

2

Employees’ rights

2

All are important

2

Skills of organizing training and workshop

2

Introduction of occupational disease

1

Enhancing ideas, skills and management

1

Getting to know more friends

1

How to identify safety problems

1

Expertise

1

Proper setting of factory

1

No lateness

1

Things about working

1

Evaluating and measuring hazards

1

4.What information will be most useful to you in your work?

Frequency

Chemicals

38

Ergonomics

31

Noise

29

All the topics

18

Electricity

17

Communication

15

Heat

8

Occupational disease

6

Factory inspection and direct on site monitoring

5

PPE

4

Fire prevention and control

3

Workers’ reflection and complains of newly happened problems

3

Machine guard and engineering control

2

MSDS

2

NGO

2

Actual operation

2

Health and safety committee

2

Reflection on the spot and all kinds of data recorded through observation

2

Standard and specifications

2

Regulations and laws

2

How to reduce hazard

1

Identifying hazard and its effects

1

Information

1

Files

1

Clients and brands

1

Skills of self protection

1

Training

1

Label and tag

1

Information about telephone, letter and interviewing

1

Labor department

1

Perfect management

1

Women workers’ occupational health and safety problems

1

5.Do you have any suggestion for improving this training?

Frequency

More practice, more inspection to the factory and more discussion

11

Many topics have not been taught. Could the time be longer? Four days are too short

6

More supplement to contents, more actual cases, enlarging and enriching topics

5

The binder should be offered before training so that we can pre-view

3

Break between lessons and lunch break are too short

3

Could the daily agenda be shorter so that trainees were not so tired ?

3

Be more specific

2

Let workers participate in discussion. Discussion time was too short.

2

Teaching according to the order of binder. The binder is too thick and not easy to open.

2

For factory inspection could lectures about those materials be made?

2

More examples

2

Arrange training according to the work and rest time of factory

2

The topic of electricity was not complete. It should be more specific.

1

Games should not be too long. To be short but refined.

1

Guiding trainees of different levels in different groups

1

Hope there will be this kind of training once per year. More training.

1

Information about specific hazards

1

Simultaneous interpretation

1

Hope there will have assistants for the trainers

1

The training was in a hurry

1

More slides

1

Arrange some visits to workers dormitory to get to know their lives after work and potential hazards in the dormitory

1

Let workers have more chance to communicate with NGO directly

1

Adjusting the class time accordingly. Sometime it was too long

1

Let more workers participate

1

The binder should have some with complex Chinese character

1

More games and activities

1

Teaching some information about job hunting

1

Hope the idea of not using PPE can be achieved

1

Class size: limited to 25 to 35 peoples

1

It is impossible to interview workers within 30 min. Activity time should be increased

1

Too much discussion. The comments should be classical.

1