Vol. 11, Issue 11, Part B (2025)

Aim: To find out the effectiveness of planned teaching programme on knowledge and practice regarding prevention of occupational health hazards among domestic waste handlers.

Settings and Design: Domestic waste handlers at selected corporation area of vijayapur.

Methods and Material: By using Non probability purposive sampling technique considered that 50 Domestic waste handlers are samples.

Statistical Analysis Used: As a descriptive statistics mean, median, standard deviation was used and as an inferential statistics to find the significant difference between pre test and post test knowledge and practice of regarding prevention of occupational health hazards t test was used and unpaired t test was used to compare the difference knowledge and practice of regarding prevention of occupational health hazards.

Results: The study results shows that 88% of clients had average knowledge regarding prevention of occupational health hazards in pretest and in post test 30% of clients had good knowledge regarding prevention of occupational health hazards. Also in pretest practice group 84% had adequate practice score regarding prevention of occupational health hazards and in post test 58% had highly adequate practice score regarding prevention of occupational health hazards. The calculated t value shows that there is a significant difference between pre test and post test effect of knowledge regarding prevention of occupational health hazards (t49=5.99, df49= 1.678) and pre test and post test effect of regarding practice prevention of occupational health hazards (t49=17.75, df49=1.678).