200 questionnaires were sent out and 154 of them were
returned giving a response rate of 77%. 92 males and
62 females participated in the study. 73% of them were
married while 27% are single. 82% of them are Hindu
while 18% were Muslims. The mean age was 36.8±6.5
with a mean working experience of 8.3±2.1 years.
76.63% of the participants had worked for less than10
years. Regarding awareness about Universal work
precautions, Table 2 shows that 20.8% (n=32) of the
participants had heard of it and only 37.5% (n=12) of
these could define and state it’s objectives