International Sustainable Competitiveness Advantage 2020 472 Safety Perceptions Analisys of Adherence to the Use of Personal protective Equipment (PPE) for Professional Students at RSGM Unsoed Purwokerto Vinoza Ayu Wardani 1 , Rahab 2 , Haris Budi Widodo 3 1 Jenderal Soedirman University, vinozaayuw@gmail.com, 53122, Purwokerto, Indonesia ABSTRACT Compliance with the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is one of the controls to avoid the danger of infection due to work accidents. Behavior can be influenced by individual beliefs or perceptions to take an action, this is in accordance with the concept of the health belief model which states the relationship between beliefs and health behavior. Compliance with the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) at Unsoed Dental Hospital was not in accordance with the quality indicator standard, which was 88.4% based on the results of the infection prevention and control team reporting. This study aims to analyze safety perceptions of adherence to the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for professional students at RSGM Unsoed Purwokerto. The research method is quantitative with a cross sectional approach. The research population was all active professional students using simple random sampling. Data is collected using a questionnaire and data analysis is conducted with Moderating Regression Analysis in the SPSS program. The results showed that there was a relationship between perceptions of susceptibility, severity, benefits, and coes to action on compliance with the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for professional students at RSGM Unsoed. Keyword: Perception, Health Belief Model, Compliance, Personal Protective Equipment 1. Introducing The behavior in using personal protective equipment (PPE) is one control for professional students to avoid dangers in the hospital when doing nursing actions. This is based on the spread of infectious diseases that can be transmitted through blood and body fluids from the patient to the environment. Healthcare-associated infection is an infection that develops in health services and associated with activities to get or provide services (WHO, 2002). Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a way that workers can use to protect part or all of their bodies from potential hazards or work accidents. In relation to compliance, behavior plays a very important role. One of the behavioral theories is widely used in health behavior is the Health Belief Model (HBM). The basis of HBM is people’s motivation to act and emphasizes how individual perceptions lead to motivation and motion causes some behavior. This model shows the relationship between beliefs and health behaviors. HBM assumes it forms appropriate health behavior based on 1 Corresponding author. E-mail: vinozaayuw@gmail.com