Final Year Students' Perception on Occupational Safety and Health Training at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA

摘要

This work aims to conduct a perception survey on the level of retainment and occupational safety and health (OSH) readiness in terms of knowledge and skills among semester 7 students (final year students) in the Bachelors Degree in Engineering (Electronics) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) after completing their internship and Engineer in Society course. In addition, the survey also aims to identify what best practices there are in delivering OSH training. As the survey has not been done previously in FEE; this work will help assess the current effectiveness of OSH training in its degree course. Survey questionnaires were given to the chosen respondents via Google Form. The survey which has 17 questions with 10 questions dedicated to collect responses of perception on OSH training during internship and another 7 questions for the EIS course. A total of 119 respondents which represent 30.43% of the whole semester 7 students' population responded to the survey. The survey reveals that OSH retainment and readiness after internship achieved a mean score of 3.75 whereas a mean score of 4.00 was achieved via the EIS course. The survey also successfully reveals current training scenarios in the companies and industries and compared best practices in delivering OSH training to new workers.