FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH COMPLIANCE WITH THE USE OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) IN CONSTRUCTION WORKERS

Abstract

The use of occupational health and safety (K3) in Indonesia leads to workplace accidents because the industry and society remain relatively low. The use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is the last risk control priority after control by elimination, substitution, engineering and administrative control has not been successfully carried out. The purpose of writing this literature review is to analyze factors related to the behavior of using PPE. This research is a literature review. The data sources used come from various databases, namely ENGINE PROQUEST, PUBMED, RESEARCH GATE, SAGEPUB and SCHOOLAR from the time span of 2018-2025. The analysis of this study uses a PRISMA flow diagram which includes the stages of identification, screening, evaluation of eligibility, to inclusion. The keywords used are "Personal Protective Equipment", "Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)", "construction workers", "compliance with the use of PPE". After screening, 20 relevant journals were obtained and used as analysis materials in this study. The results showed that there were 20 journals showing several variables that had similarities but there were differences in the results of the relationship test. The variables of knowledge, attitude and length of service are the variables analyzed by the five articles. So it can be concluded that the behavior and compliance of using personal protective equipment (PPE) by workers can be influenced by several factors including knowledge, attitude, social support, work and availability of PPE. There are several factors that influence worker behavior in using PPE, namely predisposing factors, namely attitude, knowledge, and length of service in using PPE. Supporting factors include social support and the completeness of the PPE used. Keyword : personal protective equipment (PPE), K3, worker discipline.