Impact Measurement of the Relationship between Awareness and Participation in Safety and Health at Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutions in Sarawak

The ability to perform a job safely is the hallmark of being aware of occupational safety and health at the workplace. However, being able to perform a job safely can only go so far to improve safety and health in the work environment unless workers actively participate in mitigating hazards. Historically, extensive studies have been conducted on awareness as well as participation at the workplace in developed countries compared to developing ones. Consequently, this study was carried out at three technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions in Sarawak, namely Politeknik Kuching Sarawak, Politeknik Mukah Sarawak and Politeknik Metro Betong Sarawak.The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between workers’ awareness and their participation towards limiting hazard vulnerabilities at the workplace.This quantitative research utilizes a survey instrument adopted from the Institute for Work & Health Ontario, Canada. The items within the survey are of meritorious confirmatory factorial analysis. The questionnaire was distributed online to the three TVET institutions stated above. A total of 115 responses were collected.The results proved that awareness was not significantly influenced by participation in safety and health among the respondents in the survey. There was no statistically significant difference in awareness on participation based on gender, F (2, 112) = 1.22, p < .0005; Wilk's Λ = 0.96, partial η2 = .04.There is no significant relationship between awareness and participation of safety and health in limiting hazard vulnerabilities at the workplace.