Abstract
It is well known that individual and environment factors influence occupational accidents. This study assessed the associations of education level, family size, job experience, smoking habit, alcohol consumption, presence of disease, negative job involvement, job dissatisfaction, poor safety environment, job stress, risk-taking behavior, and fatigue, poor perception of rules and regulation, and emotional instability to occupational accidents of dumper operators in coal mines. The random sample included 135 dumper operators from two opencast coal mines in India. A questionnaire was completed by the personnel interviews. The data were analyzed using the adjusted odds ratios (ORs) which were computed with the logistic regression model using the SPSS package. The factors with significant adjusted odds ratios (ORs) found were: no formal education (OR 3.70; 95% CI 1.10–12.50), less experience (2.73, 1.01-7.39), negative job involvement (3.11, 1.10-8.79), poor safety environment (3.19, 1.15–8.83), job stress (4.08, 1.27-13.10) and emotional instability (4.97, 1.42-17.49). This information would help in implementing prevention programs to improve working conditions and to help dumper operators to develop positive psychological traits.
Highlights
Accidents and injuries related to work are a major occupational health problem in most of the industrialized countries
The present study mainly focuses on assessing the role of some of individual and occupational factors to the occurrences of incidents/accidents to dumper operators in coal mines
Significant differences were observed for the following factors: level of education, family size, less experience in job, regular consumption of alcohol, negative job involvement, job dissatisfaction, poor perception of rules and regulations, emotional instability, poor safety environment, and job stress
Summary
Accidents and injuries related to work are a major occupational health problem in most of the industrialized countries. The recent data during the five year period 2006-2010 reveal that all injury rates have decreased by 25%. The accident statistics reveal that the fatal and serious injury rates have not significantly reduced during the 10 year period 20012010. The total number of fatalities for the years 2001 and 2010 were 141 and 120 and their rates per 100,000 workers were 0.32 and 0.32 respectively. The fatal injury rates in Indian coal mines revealed that these figures are almost constant during the recent 10 year period 2001-2010. The present study mainly focuses on assessing the role of some of individual and occupational factors to the occurrences of incidents/accidents to dumper operators in coal mines
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