Development of a Sanitation and Environmental Management Model Using Participatory Process in

This research aimed to study problems of the corporate environments and their causes and the importance of the development of a sanitation and environmental management model using participatory process in Prachinburi Honda Cars Co. Limited; and to develop and evaluate the developed model. The participatory action research (PAR) and the pretest–posttest one group design were employed. The development was divided into 4 stages. The first stage was to study the problems of corporate environments and their causes and the importance of the developments of a sanitation and environmental management model of the corporation. The second stage was to develop the sanitation and environmental management model of the corporation using the participatory process. The third stage was the try–out of the developed model. The fourth stage was the acceptance of the model by experts. The purposively selected 27 corporate personnel were participated in the try–out of the model for two days. The data were collected using a questionnaire, a model evaluation form, a training handbook on sanitation and environmental management using the participatory process, an environmental perception questionnaire, and a questionnaire on participation in sanitation and environmental management. The statistics used for analyses of the collected data were percentage, mean, standard deviation, the paired t–test, the and F– test (Two–way MANCOVA and ANCOVA). The research findings were as follows: The developed sanitation and environmental management model using the participatory process consisted of 6 components: (1) needs study and goal setting; (2) analysis of problems of corporate environments and their causes, and an importance of the development of the sanitation and environmental management model; (3) objective setting and training plan; (4) training with emphases on participation in identification of environmental problems and their causes, problem preventive advantages gaining, and follow–up and evaluation; (5) obtained outcomes such as environmental perception and participation in sanitation and environmental management, and (6) evaluation/revision. This developed model was assessed as appropriateness by the experts. The corporate personnel as a whole and as classified according to sex, age and education level showed environmental perceptions at a more level and indicated participations in sanitation and environmental management in general and in each subscale at a more to the most level which was increased from before attending the training at the .05 level of significance, which showed perception at a less to a moderate level and the participations at a less level. The corporate personnel with different sexes or ages did not indicate posttest environmental perceptions and posttest perception of sanitation and environmental development in general and in each subscale differently. Also, the statistical interactions of sex and age were not found to be significant.