Community Empowerment Program in Bojong Terong, Depok, West Java: Established a Healthy Catering Business that Takes into Account the Industrial Hygiene Aspects
Abstract
Based on the baseline survey and observation that was conducted by the research team, the community empowerment program is really needed to be implemented in Bojong Pondok Terong. The community in that area faces some social issues that are related to their health, education, and economic condition. Hence, a healthy catering business that also concerns the industrial hygiene aspects is one of the suggested solutions to improve the economic condition of the people in that area. The aim of this research is to investigate people’s knowledge about the industrial hygiene before and after the community empowerment program was developed. This research used quantitative method by using questionnaires. Questionnaires were
given to around 20 women who were being mentored about developing a healthy catering business that concern to industrial hygiene aspects. The result was analyzed by using SPSS software. The result from the questionnaire presents that 90.62 percent of the respondents observed understand about the industrial hygiene aspects during the pre-test, and it was increased to 98.06 percent during the post-test or after the
program was developed.
Keywords: industrial hygiene, community, program, business
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