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Comprehensive worker education through ongoing training programs about the use,wear and care of PPE is a critical first step in creating a safer working environmentand reducing injury-related costs. This result also refines the relatively widely spreadidea in Gaza Strip that PPE prevents worker from working properly."Hot weather decreases productivity and exhausts workers which exposes them tomore accidents" factor was ranked in the second position among PPE group with RII= 0.660 and was ranked in the 16 th position among all groups factors of productivity.This result shows that hot weather conditions, which are a prevailing condition inGaza Strip from June until November, exposed workers to accidents. Hot weatherexposes workers to headache, sun stroke, and heat exhaustion. Under these conditionsworker feels reluctant to work and his productivity decreases noticeably."Using PPE constrains worker movement which decreases productivity" factor wasranked in the third position among PPE group with RII = 0.422 and was ranked in the27 th position among all groups factors of productivity. This result shows thatrespondents were reluctant to support that PPE constrains movement of workers andthus decreases productivity. Using PPE doesn't constrain worker movement especiallyif the worker is trained on how to use their PPE and keep it clean.4.3.2.1 Summary of Group RankingTable 4.35 shows a summary of ranking of productivity group factors. Ranking wasbased on RII. RII of each group has been found by computing the mean values ofrelative factors of each group.143