PERBEDAAN FAAL PARU ANTARA PEKERJA PENAMBANG BELERANG DAN BUKAN PENAMBANG BELERANG DI DESA TAMANSARI KECAMATAN LICIN KABUPATEN BANYUWANGI

Abstract

The smell of sulphur fumes can affect the environment and human beings. Sulphur mining workers are very potentially exposed to sulphur vapor inhalation, mouth breathing and directly contact of the sulphur vapor inhalation can cause irritation to the mucous membranes of the nose and lungs. Examination results of sprirometric by BP4 Banyuwangi on preliminary survey, there are 60% community about having lung function impairment with mild, or moderate restricted category, light obstruction, medium obstruction. Sulphur mining workers and non-sulphur mining workers clearly have differences about duration of exposure to the sulphur fumes. This type of study are observational analytical and the design of studies that used in the study is cross-sectional with comparative studieas approach. Technique of sampling is Multistage Random Sampling. It takes randomly as much as 31 respondents to cluster I, they are sulphur mining workers and 31 respondents to cluster II, namely the local community who are non-sulphur mining workers. The data obtained is analyzed using spearmen test, lamda test, mann whitney test. The results showed that there are differences of pulmonary physiology between sulphur mining workers and non-sulphur mining workers. Based on these results, it is expected that they pay more attention to the use of personal protection equipment (PPE) in accordance with the standards and the need for training regarding occupational health and safety.