Evaluating crew satisfaction of working environment in KD JEBAT Warship / Muhammad Hisham Abdul Halim

The working environment coherently influences job satisfaction. This study focuses on the crew satisfaction of the working environment toward indoor environmental conditions aspect within the element of indoor air quality. Kapal Diraja (KD) JEBAT warship belonging to Royal Malaysian Navy has been chosen as site study consisting of 160 crew on board. This study aims to investigate the crew satisfaction towards working environment on board the KD JEBAT warship. Only crew with six months of service onboard were selected as respondents. Research methodology only uses a quantitative method by conducting a questionnaire survey toward 130 crew members (80% of the total crew population). There are three variables involved in this study, which are work-related symptoms (WRS), working compartment environment (WCE), and working performance (WPB) behaviour. The SPSS testing procedure was used to examine all of the scoring data from the questionnaire. The finding portrays most of the crew (67.1% - 71.8%) dissatisfied with the working environment. The demography factor and correlation within all variable shows the statistically significant result. This research does not question engineering practice onboard or produce new standard operating procedures or involve current asset procurement. The importance of this research is toward the social aspects of the merchant community, which may increase seafarer satisfaction.