FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH MULAWARMAN UNIVERSITY SAMARINDA 2011 ABSTRCT NANDA FACHRIZAL, The Relationship between Dust Content

with Lung Capacity on Labour in The RIAH Furniture Industry Karang Paci District Sungai Kunjang Samarinda 2011. (1st Advisor : Mrs. Risva, SKM, M.Kes and 2 nd Advisor : Mrs. Dina Lusiana Setyowati, SKM). Furniture industry is an industry which uses woods as its raw materials, the result of process furniture making produce an effect as a form of wood dust which can be a bad toward the health of labour which is lung capacity. based the result of observation, affect was found a complaint such as, cough with sputum, ashphyriate, chest pain and wheezing on labour in the RIAH Furniture Industry Karang Paci which related with the condition of working environtment. The purpose of this research is to discover the relation between dust content with lung capacity on labour in the RIAH furniture industry karang paci district sungai kunjang samarinda 2011. this kind of research is observational with the approach cross sectional. the techniques of collecting data using gauge level of total dust content (low volume air sampler), gauge level of individual dust content (personal dust sampler) and a spirometer with a sample of 30 labours. The result of research showed there is a connection between dust content with lung capacity on labour. individual dust content with lung capacity (p = 0,0001) and environtment dust content with lung capacity (p = 0,009). Advice that can be given is do a change of industry physical building and innstalation of windows and ventilations on the back side of working room and do a check up periodically to find out health conditions, improve exercise habits and use masks in the workplace. Keywords : individual dust content; environtment dust content; lung capacity Bibliography : 35, 1993 - 2009

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