The Effectiveness of Company Doctor on The Health Status of Employee

Introduction. Company doctors are part of a company to support worker’s health, provide promotive, preventive, curative also rehabilitative assistance for workers. By the presence of company doctor, it’s hoped that workers can understand the concept of safety, provide education about diseases and basic management if there’s an accident in the workplace, and give a basic first aid training. This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the presence of company doctors assessed through employee health status. Methods. This research is an analytical observational study where data is taken from the results of 14 questions of questionnaires (simple random sampling) conducted to employees at PT Saint Gobain Indonesia. 50 employees of 64 filled out the survey. Results. From the results of the relationship of the visit duration to specialist during the month on company doctors helping to overcome health complaints, the p value is <0.05. Discussion. From the questionnaire regarding whether the presence of a company doctor helps, 48 out of 50 answered yes (this means the health promotion and preventive efforts done by doctors, such as healthy talks both offline in the office and online). So that it minimizes the number of visits to hospitals or specialists for treatment. Conclusion. There is a significant relationship between the presence of a company doctor who can resolve employee complaints and employee visits to specialists. This means that employee complaints can be resolved with the company doctor so that employees do not need to make checks or visits to specialists.