PLS Model for the Influence of Work Environment and Behavior on the Health and Performance of Ship Crews

Abstract

Based on Blum's theory, the environment and behavior can affect human health. The World Health Organization (WHO) places risk factors in the work environment as the tenth leading cause of illness and death. Occupational illness is a condition caused by workplace exposure caused by physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic and psycho-spatial factors in the work environment to the extent that normal physiological mechanisms are affected and workers' health is impaired. The behavior of using personal protective equipment can protect workers from exposure to these factors. A safe and danger free work environment can affect health to make the crews excited and work well which will contribute to the productivity and performance. Internationally, the marine fisheries sector is recognized as the most dangerous workplace in the world and is higher significantly as the cause of occupational illness and accidents comparing with the other sectors such as agriculture and construction. Fishers can deal with physical such as vibration, noise, temperature, chemical, biological, ergonomic and psychosocial hazards when they are doing the duties and responsibilities that can affect their health and performance. Based on that, a model of the effect of work environment and behavior on the health and performance of the crew has been designed. The method used to analyze the relationship between variables and evaluate the goodness of fit the designed model is partial least square. Data obtained from questionnaires that have been filled out by 125 crews of pole and line fishing vessels as respondents. The analysis shows that all indicators of each variable are valid and reliable which means that each indicator of each variable is able to measure each variable well based on a value of composite reliability ≥ 0.6 and a Croncbach alpha value of ≥ 0.7 and a value of AVE ≥ 0.5 for the reflective variable and the value of T-statistics of each indicator > 1.96 and P-value < 0.05 for formative variables. Evaluation of the goodness of fit the model based on Q 2 value or predictive-relevance, the analysis shows the Q 2 value of 0.826 almost 1 thus make model for the influence of the work environment and behavior on the health and performance of ship crews is worth mentioning very well. The study aims to design a model of the effect of the work environment and behavior of the use of personal protective equipment on the health and performance of fishermen on pole and line fishing vessels using Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis.