Basic Safety Training Influence toward Safety Behavior of Society Empowerment Program Participants

According to KNKT database on November, 30th 2016, there are increasing ship accidents from year to year. There were fifteen accidents in 2016 and eleven accidents in 2011. There are many factors contributing to accidents and one of them is human error. Human error factor contributes 41 % as the cause of an accident while technical factor contributes 59 %. Therefore, by giving and increasing knowledge, understanding, proficiency and also skill through safety exercises to ships crew, it could increase safety behavior and minimalize human error. This study aimed to observe the basic safety training impact toward safety behavior of society empowerment program participants. It was seen from the different safety behavior before and after the training held in Surabaya Merchant Marine polytechnic. The method used was quantitative approach with pre-experimental kind with one-group pretest posttest design. The research respondents were the society empowerment program participants who never joined the safety training. Based on the data analysis, there was significant difference of safety behavior before and after following the basic safety training. The pretest result of safety behavior obtained 91.0857 whereas the posttest result was 93.47. The basic safety training can be used to realize zero-accident by minimalizing the human error.