Survey Quality of Work Life of Woman Worker in Garment Industry to Support Workplace Improvement

Abstract

Increasing tbe role of woman wbo working in the industrial sector is growing nowadays, beside to belping the family finance also for self-actualization. In addition to increasing tbe role, there are other challenges for women worker to showing good performance in work and also to keep paying attention to their family in the same time. Research on QWL of women in various professions has been widely made, and shows various results, but there is still a gap, wbere QWL of worker woman tbat work in tbe sbop floor (operator) bave not been seen. In Indonesia, the garment sector is one of tbe industries tbat absorb more women workers and tbere was also major and minor accident. Tbis paper sbow the result of tbe QWL survey to give recommendation for garment industries for their safety program design. Survey for QWL based on tbe NIOSH-QWL criteria. The result shows that more than 50% worker have good QWL, but still need effort to improve safety in the garment industries especially in ergonomics area.