Awareness of disaster and risk reduction among employees in Packing-18 Tagum Agricultural Development Company, Inc.

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the relationship between awareness of disaster and risk reduction among employees at packing-18 Tagum Agricultural Development Company (TADECO). The study's independent variable is the awareness of disaster while the dependent variable is risk reduction among employees. The indicators used in this study are disaster-related knowledge, disaster preparedness and readiness, disaster adaptation, disaster awareness, disaster risk perception, attitude and action, company’s policy, preparedness planning the participants of this study has a total of 131 employees of packing-18 at TADECO. The researchers used the quantitative-descriptive design to investigate the relationship between awareness of disaster and risk reduction among employees. The statistical methods used in the study were weighted mean and Pearson-r. The computed R-value is 0.692 and is associated with p-value of 0.000, less than 0.05. The results indicate that the level of awareness of disaster risk among workers is high, with a mean of 4.19, and the level of risk reduction practices is very high, with a mean of 4.38. It implies that the null hypothesis is rejected. As a result of the findings, it was concluded that there is a significant relationship between awareness of disaster and risk reduction among employees at packing-18 Tagum Agricultural Development Company (TADECO).