How Reliable Variables That Entered on SGK Accident e-Notice?

Abstract

It is possible to analyze occupational accident statistics, the modeling of risks that cause accidents and identification of accident causes, to decrease occupational accidents. Occupational accidents started to be reported considering ESAW (European Statistics on Accidents at Work) standards with e-notice since 2013. Occupational accident notifications started to be reported with new standard caused to perform a comparative analysis of accidents and within the scope of a standard. Therefore, these notifications and analyzes can give direction guide national occupational safety strategy activities. Although the obligation to make such notifications is in the employer in our country, the online notification system has enabled all variables of occupational accidents to be sent to relevant public institution in the easiest and most accurate way. This study aims to analyze the reliability of the variables in the ESAW methodology at the practice level. In this context, 264 occupational accident occurred between 2015-2017 were analyzed in an industrial workplace. In this study, the variables reported both by the human resources department responsible for making necessary notifications to official institutions and by the occupational safety specialist responsible for ensuring occupational health and safety at workplace where the accident is experienced will be used. The reliability of the ESAW methodology variables in the accident reports will be analyzed by the reliability coefficient (Kappa Test). The results of the analysis will be examined and the recommendations will be given to be more reliable of variables.