Authors: 1Djoko Windu P. Irawan | 2Sri Poerwati | 3Denok Indraswati | 4Dewi Ayu Purbaningrum
Department of Environmental Health, Health Polytechnic of Surabaya, Indonesia
E-mail: windu_irawan@yahoo.co.id
Abstract
Train wreck is one of the transportation accidents that frequently occur in Indonesia. The remaining problem is the question of the door of the train crossing. Accidents often occur around the door of a train crossing, one of them are caused by the negligence of the officers in guarding the doorstop. This study was carried out in the territory of the regional of Nganjuk, belongs to Oprating Area VII Madiun. The purpose of this study is to describe the influence of General fatigue levels to the officer of railway doorstop from the door doorstop of Wilangan (the officers of trajectory 106) to Baron doorstop (the officers of trajectory 90). This study is descriptive research through surveys, collecting data using interviews, observations with instruments against general fatigue upon complaints (the symptoms) of physical experienced by the officers, identifying tasks and individual factors. From 30 respondents of the officers of railway crossing doorstop, that most of them experienced high fatigue level (very tired) 12 (40%), medium level of fatigue (tired) 7 (23.33%), and low fatigue level (less tired) 11 (36.67%). To overcome the problems above, it was recommended to conduct disciplinary work rotation, given the guidance material on health and safety, to conduct health examination periodically at least once a month, to give the time of leisure and enough rest, to provide incentives for increasing well-being, to give furlough, to change a manually doorstop to automatically one, to fit Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) at the crossing, to motivate the officers to perform work safety and to cretae safe and convenient work environment, the mastery of the working procedures (a clear task descriptions), to facilitate the officers with good working equipments which are suitable with the work environment.
Keywords: Fatigue levels, Officers of the railway crossing doorstop
