This article is licensed under CC BY- SA 4.0 License J J-Kesmas: Jurnal Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat p-ISSN: 2355-0643, e-ISSN: 2355-0988 (The Indonesian Journal of Public Health) Vol. 7, No. 1, April, 2020 Available at http://jurnal.utu.ac.id/jkesmas Open Access RESEARCH ARTICLE 34 The Effect of Work Situation and Unsafety Action on Work Accident in PT. Raja Marga Nagan Raya District 1 Susy Sriwahyuni, 1 Eka Santika, 1 Khairunnas Khairunnas, 1 Ishalyadi Ishalyadi, 1 Muhammad Iqbal Fahlevi 1 Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Teuku Umar, Aceh, Indonesia Coresponding author: Susy Sriwahyuni, e-mail: susysriwahyuni@utu.ac.id Co-author : SE: santika.eka@gmail.com, KK: khairunnas@utu.ac.id, II: ishalyadi@utu.ac.id, MIF: muhammadiqbalfahlevi@utu.ac.id Submitted: 19/03/2020 Revised: 06/04/2020 Accepted: 19/04/2020 Published online: 21/04/2020 doi: https://doi.org/10.35308/j-kesmas.v7i1.1916 How to cite this article: Sriwahyuni, S., Santika, E., Khairunnas, K., Ishalyadi, I., & Fahlevi, M.I. (2020). The effect of work situation and unsafety action on work accident in PT. Raja Marga Nagan Raya District. J-Kesmas: Jurnal Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat (The Indonesian Journal of Public Health. 7(1): 34- 37. Abstract A work accident is an unplanned event that has the potential to cause injury, damage or other loss to someone. Based on preliminary studies conducted by researchers to 10 employees that the work environment is less than the maximum one of which is caused by a workplace environment that is too hot, muddy, slippery and easily causes employees to slip. The aims of research to determine the factor of affecting work accident. The research used analytic survey with cross sectional approach. The population were all employees (72 respondents) and used total sampling and used chi-square test. The results showed there were effect among work situation (Pvalue = 0.011) and unsafety action (Pvalue = 0,000) with work accident. The researcher suggest to PT. Raja Marga to provide warning letters to employees in an effort to avoid work accidents to the maximum extent. Keywords : work situation; unsafety actions; work accidents Introduction A work accident is unplanned event that has the potential to cause injury, damage or other loss to someone (Gunawan & Waluyo, 2015). Work accidents are generally caused by worker behavior (human factors) and working conditions (work environment factors) (Ramli, 2010). According to Setyawan (2015), cause of workplace accidents have two factors, namely dangerous behavior (unsafe action) as much as 80% and work conditions (unsafe condition) as much as 20%. Unsafe actions are behaviors that can cause work accidents that result in injury losses to death (Deviani et al. 2015). Such actions as actions without lack and did not used personal protective equipment, qualifications and authority, or move work safety equipment (Djatmiko, 2016). Unsafe actions are motivated by age, lack of knowledge and experience, fatigue, stress (Daryanto, 2018). Unsafe working conditions are conditions caused by inappropriate machinery or equipment, poor working environment, inadequate facilities (Tarwaka, 2017). Work environment factors that cause work accidents are physical, chemical and biological factors (Triwibowo & Pusphandani, 2013). Labor is important factor when the work process is taking place, there are often accidents in the workplace; minor accidents and serious accidents (Irzal, 2016). However, sometimes the accident is not reported or get a handler because it is considered not to reduce work productivity. Accidents also occur due to dangerous machine, vibration, noise, and materials that harm the lungs, physical injuries, eyes, skin and stress, limited workplaces, and falling on goods (Winarsunu & Tulus, 2010). Raja Marga is a limited liability company engaged in the processing of palm oil into CPO (Crude Palm Oil), established in 2013 and located in Gampong Alue Rambot, Darul Makmur District, Nagan Raya Regency. PT. Raja Marga has 104 employees consisting of 7 office employees, 10 security employees, 7 laboratory employees, 13 sorting employees, 40 production employees, 2 electricians, 17 workshop parts and 8 staff oang (PT. Raja Marga, 2018) Based on BPJS Ketenagakerjaan’s data, the number of work accidents in Indonesia in 2018 was 157,313 cases (BPJS Ketenagakerjaan Indonesia, 2018). In Aceh province the number of work accidents in 2016 was 5 accidents, in 2017 there were