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- Title
Veszélyes szépség - Egészségkárosító kockázatok a szépségszalonokban dolgozók körében.
- Authors
PÁLVÖLGYI, Éva; HIRDI, Henriett Éva
- Abstract
The aim of the study: The aim was to assess the health status and working conditions of the beauty salon workers (hairdressers, barbers, beauticians, manicurists and pedicurists), and their knowledge regarding workplace risk factors. Methods: The survey was conducted in December 2018 - January 2019 through self-constructed online questionnaire among Hungarian beauty salon workers which covered socio-demographic data, workers' health issues and occupational health issues. Data were analysed with SPSS 22.0. Results: The online questionnaire filled out by a total of 166 beauty salon workers. workers (165 women and 1 man). The respondents had an average age of 35.21 years. The average working hours of the workers was 8.88 hours. 33.73% of the sample did not visited the occupational health setting at all. It can conclude that all of the respondents have chronical disease. Conclusions: The research confirmed that the employees of the beauty industry are exposed to a lot of health damaging factors, which is primarily the permanent contamination with chemical substances. The test results prove, that more emphasis should be placed on prevention and appearance in occupational health tests, as well as order to the personal protective equipment to use for healthy and safe working.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; INDUSTRIAL safety; AESTHETICS; PERSONAL beauty; CHRONIC diseases; HEALTH status indicators; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; PROTECTIVE clothing; QUESTIONNAIRES; WORK environment; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; ESTHETICIANS (Skin care); HEALTH literacy; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Nővér, 2019, Vol 32, Issue 4, p11
- ISSN
0864-7003
- Publication type
Article