Effect of health education intervention on the awareness and use of personal protective equipments among small scale electric arc welders in ilorin, Nigeria

Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-8

  Adewoye, Kayode R ^a   Awoyemi, Ademola O ^a,c   Babatunde, Oluwole A ^a   Atoyebi, Oladele A ^a   Salami, Sarafadeen K ^a,b   Issa, Funsho Y ^a  

^a FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Nigeria)

^b LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Equipments; health education; welder

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC ARC WELDER; EYE GOGGLE; FACE MASK; GLOVE; HAND GLOVE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HELMET; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTERVIEW; NIGERIA; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY BOOT; SHOE; WELDING; WELDING APRON; WELDING HELMET;

EID: 84903549051     PISSN: 09732284     EISSN: 19983670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5278.134945     Document Type: Article

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