Abstract
Introduction: As a result of the Covid 19 pandemic, all sectors of the world's economy have been severely affected. An offshore platform is a workplace with complex facilities and limited space due to complex installed equipment and components. Therefore, there is a high risk of Covid-19 outbreak in confined spaces with poor ventilation. Covid-19 can be easily transmitted due to the close physical distance, confined space, poor ventilation, and inadequate use of face masks. Consequently, this workplace is one of the workplaces susceptible to Covid-19 outbreak.
Methodology: This is a cross sectional study using data from notification port health unit of Pasir Puteh health district from January - February 2022. All person on board of the platform were taken as sample. Positive cases of Covid-19 defined as a person with or without symptoms with swab Rt-PCR positive. The data then was analysed with SPSS version 21.
Result: A total of 74 offshore worker on board were recoded. All workers are male and the mean age is 37.7 years old. There is about 40 percent of offshore worker have been infected on the platform. From the positive cases it was found that 57 percent of the workers has symptoms, 83 percent had no booster dose and 60 percent of them are working and stayed at the same level, which is level 2. Only 2 factors that found significant on this study, which is the vaccination status and duration of time they stayed on the platform. Discussion: In general, the findings of this study are consistent to other studies. It also proves that our standard of operating procedure used so far been proven to be true, which the main aim to stop the Covid-19 transmission. The preparation works included personnel disembarkation control mechanism, health assessment, evaluation of company self-paid Covid-19 test capacity and worker quarantine before and after they were mobilised to the platform. Since the Covid-19 pandemic is still severe, it is necessary to continue assessing each risks , adjusting quarantine period accordingly and cross-departmental cooperation in port to ensure the prevention and control of outbreak and the continuity of the industry. More studies are needed in the future for the sustainability of all.
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@proceedings{APCPH2022-P-29,
title = {Cluster Sauh Gading : A COVID-19 cluster at sea},
author = {Nik Anisuddin Atiqi Wan Abdul Rahman},
url = {https://apcph.cphm.my/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/APCPH2022-P-29.pdf
https://apcph.cphm.my/wp-content/uploads/wpforms/1176-1e04940bb5d885bf8711ed19095a89ed/APCPH2022-P-29-0ff20ebbd03bcfb9738edc8b39766ebe.pdf},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-08-02},
urldate = {2022-08-02},
issue = {7},
abstract = {Introduction: As a result of the Covid 19 pandemic, all sectors of the world's economy have been severely affected. An offshore platform is a workplace with complex facilities and limited space due to complex installed equipment and components. Therefore, there is a high risk of Covid-19 outbreak in confined spaces with poor ventilation. Covid-19 can be easily transmitted due to the close physical distance, confined space, poor ventilation, and inadequate use of face masks. Consequently, this workplace is one of the workplaces susceptible to Covid-19 outbreak.
Methodology: This is a cross sectional study using data from notification port health unit of Pasir Puteh health district from January - February 2022. All person on board of the platform were taken as sample. Positive cases of Covid-19 defined as a person with or without symptoms with swab Rt-PCR positive. The data then was analysed with SPSS version 21.
Result: A total of 74 offshore worker on board were recoded. All workers are male and the mean age is 37.7 years old. There is about 40 percent of offshore worker have been infected on the platform. From the positive cases it was found that 57 percent of the workers has symptoms, 83 percent had no booster dose and 60 percent of them are working and stayed at the same level, which is level 2. Only 2 factors that found significant on this study, which is the vaccination status and duration of time they stayed on the platform. Discussion: In general, the findings of this study are consistent to other studies. It also proves that our standard of operating procedure used so far been proven to be true, which the main aim to stop the Covid-19 transmission. The preparation works included personnel disembarkation control mechanism, health assessment, evaluation of company self-paid Covid-19 test capacity and worker quarantine before and after they were mobilised to the platform. Since the Covid-19 pandemic is still severe, it is necessary to continue assessing each risks , adjusting quarantine period accordingly and cross-departmental cooperation in port to ensure the prevention and control of outbreak and the continuity of the industry. More studies are needed in the future for the sustainability of all.},
howpublished = {published online at https://apcph.cphm.my},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Pejabat Kesihatan Daerah Pasir Puteh},
keywords = {COVID-19 offshore workers epidemiology, Offshore workplace, oil and gas industries.},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}