Number Of Workplace Accidents Research Articles

Hubungan Antara Pengetahuan dengan Kejadian Kecelakaan Kerja Pada Pekerja Bengkel Las: Kajian Literatur

The number of workplace accidents in Indonesia continues to increase every year. In 2019, there were 210,789 cases of workplace accidents, which rose to 221,740 cases in 2020, and further increased to 234,370 cases in 2021. The welding process involves various risks of workplace accidents that may occur at different stages. Starting from selecting and moving products, workers can be scratched by materials or even hit by them. The purpose of this research is to determine whether there is a relationship between knowledge and workplace accidents among welding workshop workers using a qualitative method. Conclusion: There is a significant correlation between an individual's knowledge of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) practices and their performance in the work environment. The better the welders' knowledge of OHS, in terms of basic knowledge, understanding of concepts, and application in the field, the lower the risk of workplace accidents.

The Effect of Job Satisfaction on Work Accidents: Empirical Study in Algerian Electricity and Gas Company − Hassi Messaoud

Job satisfaction is the result of an employee’s perception of their work and the impact of their actions, attitudes and values on personal and professional life. Potential consequences of job discontentment may include high staff turnover, increased absenteeism, alcohol or drug addiction, and accidents at the workplace. The article aims to develop a methodology for assessing employee job satisfaction to substantiate the cause-and-effect relationship between job satisfaction and the number of workplace accidents. The subject of the study is the Algerian Electricity and Gas Company in Hassi Messaoud, which employs more than 82 thousand employees and has more than 11 million electricity consumers and more than 7 million gas consumers. The study is based on a survey of employees of the operation and human resources departments, for which a random sample was formed, and 84.16% of the questionnaires were valid for analysis. The Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient was used to assess the internal consistency of the questionnaire, which professional experts reviewed. The SPSS statistical package was used to process the data. The study showed that among all dimensions of job satisfaction, the most important for the surveyed respondents were satisfaction with the leadership style and job stability, while less important were workload, satisfaction with the work environment, and remuneration. Future research is needed to examine the factors that will contribute to the reduction of workplace accidents; further efforts are needed to understand the many aspects that affect other sectors of the economy and different industries.

The mediation role of safety training between risk perception and safety behaviors among non-medical hospital staff

The relationship between risk perception and safety outcomes has been extensively studied in the past, but there is scarce research on the mediating effect of safety training on risk perception and both safety dimensions of safety behaviors in hospital settings. This study investigates the role of safety training as a mediator in the relationship between risk perception and safety behavior, as measured by compliance and participation in safety measures. The cross-sectional data from one big private hospital in Saudi Arabia was examined using the most recent iteration of Smart Partial Least Squares (PLS4). A 71% response rate was achieved on surveys that were personally handed out to 155 non-medical staff in hospitals. In this study, the significance level for Percentile Bootstrapping with a 95% confidence interval and p ≤ 0.05 was utilized to analyze mediation. Safety training served as a full mediating variable in the link between risk perception and safety compliance. Surprisingly, safety training did not act as a mediator in the relationship between risk perception and safety participation. This study fills a gap in the body of knowledge about non-medical staff's attitudes toward risk, safety training, and safety behaviors. Additionally, it helps us comprehend how safety training can help people perceive risks and behave safely. Considering that hospital management and safety officials receive high-quality training on safety concerns, more workers follow safety precautions, and the number of workplace accidents is reduced. The results of this study can be used as a foundation for future studies to enhance occupational safety practices.

Development of Safety Cost on Upper Structure Building Based on Work Breakdown Structure

Construction as one of the most influencing industry to the country’s economy on the other hand also have the highest number of workplace accidents. Based on the data, 32% of accidental cases in Indonesia happened on constructional sectors. Hazard combine with work environments, workers behavior, organizational factor are the few reasons on the high number of workplace accident. In order to controlling the accidents, the safety risks in the construction industry need to be addressed. This paper aims to developing the standardized work breakdown structure for upper structure in building as a series of task in the form activities and to identify the safety risks in construction project based on work breakdown structure in order to effectively listing the workplace safety risk to maximizing the prevention. The risks listed also following by the prevention needed for controlling the risks, and the prevention would help to develop the component needed for cost of safety. In the end, the component of the cost of safety based on the prevention on the risk for each work breakdown structure will be more detailed and accurate.

Statistical Analysis of Workplace Accidents in Polish Mining Industry

The publication presents a statistical analysis of workplace accidents in Polish mining in 2009-2017. Collecting and studying information on accidents at work is essential element necessary to improve the organization of work and to introduce preventive activities that will reduce the probability of the workplace accident. The analysis was based on the data of the Statistics Poland and the State Mining Authority. Based on the collected data, it has been shown that the number of workplace accidents and persons injured in these accidents in the studied years decreased and amount to 30% (according to the Statistics Poland) less in 2017 than in 2009. Whereas, the incidence rate of accidents at work (defined as the number of injured people per 1000 persons employed) in Polish mining ranges from 13.97 (in 2013) to 17.82 (in 2010) and is twice higher than the incidence rate of workplace accidents for all industries in Poland. The accidents at workplace in the mining industry in the analysed period occured on average every 137.88-223.43 thousand Mg of mined minerals. Additionally, the causes of workplace accidents and the number of persons injured were analysed depending on the age of the persons injured, length of work seniority, specific physical activities performed by the persons injured at the moment of workplace accident and the type of injuries. The highest number of accidents at workplace is related to inappropriate behaviour of a person at work and workplace accidents were most often suffered by persons injured aged 20-49 years (89.47%), who performed different activities at the moment of an accident at workplace: movement (31.46% persons injured), handling of objects (20.22% persons injured), carrying by hand (19.91% persons injured) and working with hand-held tools (13.26% persons injured). The most frequent types of injuries suffered by persons injured at the moment of accident are wounds and wounds and superficial injuries (34.05%), fractures of bones (30.12%) and dislocations, sprains and strains (20.91%).

Analysis of workplace injuries in Slovakian state forestry enterprises

Abstract The aim of the paper is to identify the most common workplace accidents regarding injured body parts with respect to anthropometric data measurements of the population in the Slovak republic. Data from workplace accidents database over the years 2000-2017 were drawn from the records of the Slovak Forest state enterprise. The highest number of workplace accidents (31.7% of all recorded workplace accidents) occurred during the forest harvesting phase. Timber skidding with 15.9% of recorded accidents was the second highest risky phase. In four phases Timber harvesting, timber skidding,Works at conversion depot, Repairs and maintenance was 76% from all injuries in forestry state enterprises was occurred. Nonsignificant increase in the injury rate over the years 2000-2017 was determined in the analysis of the injury rate in the Slovak state forests. From the point of view of the longterm changing anthropometric parameters of the adult population, it is also necessary to take into account the ergonomic parameters and the technological procedures of the performed work and the working environment.

Work safety success theory based on dynamic safety entropy model

Traditional work safety theory has played a significant role in promoting the development of work safety in that its application has effectively reduced the number of accidents and saved thousands of lives. However, as time goes on, the “marginal effect” of the theory is becoming more and more obvious. The world’s statistics shows that the number of workplace accidents can only be reduced to a certain level, and cannot be reduced to zero. Also, as reflected from the increasing concerns and research of occupational diseases, the number of new occupational disease case has been found increasing year by year. This paper puts forward the work safety success theory based on the deductive method, which is different from the traditional work safety theory based on the inductive method. It deepens the theoretical research of work safety, and is an important improvement to the traditional theory. Combined with the theory of thermodynamics in physics, the entropy theory is used to explain the work safety success theory. And a dynamic work safety entropy model has been constructed and applied in specific cases, which further validates the work safety success theory. At present, technology and equipment have laid a good foundation for data collection and analysis of work safety research, and the work safety success theory provides a new methodology for the whole process work safety research with big data. The conclusion of this paper can provide reference for achieving the goal of zero accident in the workplace.

BAHAYA KERJA PENGOLAHAN RSS (RIBBED SMOKE SHEET) MENGGUNAKAN METODE HAZARD IDENTIFICATION AND RISK ASSESSMENT DI PT. PQR

Occupational Safety and Health is the primary means of prevention of occupational accidents, disabilities and deaths so that the consequences of occupational accidents from potential hazards can be prevented. Companies need to develop risk management based on hazard identification and risk assessment compiled in occupational safety and health programs. Occupational health and safety risk management is an effort of hazard management which potentially pose a risk to safety and health to prevent unwanted accident. The data collected in this research is primary data and secondary data. Primary data obtained through direct observation on the floor processing RSS (Ribbed Smoke Sheet) at PT. PQR is useful to observe the potential hazards of work contained in the work area. While the secondary data taken in this study is historical data. The result of determining the risk value for each hazard source contained in PT. PQR is classified by rankings marked with the code E (extreme risk), H (high risk), M (moderate risk), and L (low risk). This is obtained by comparing the severity and probability values of each process / activity. Of the 28 activities, there are 7 activities included in the category of high risk. Process / activity that belonged to high risk is necessary to control to minimize or even eliminate the existing risks. control measures that can be performed on a high risk process / activity is to use a complete Personal Protective Equipment (APD), MSDS, using warning signs, using ladders in sheet sheets, with ergonomic work posture.Factors causing potential work hazards are workers who perform activities of inadvertent, high temperatures, and negligence of workers in using PPE. These control measures are expected to reduce and even eliminate the risk of the process / activity classified as high risk so that the number of workplace accidents can be reduced.

Workplace Accidents Dynamics and Structural Changes in Economy

Abstract The paper presents an empirical-statistical investigation of the dynamics of workplace accidents by structural changes and by different sectors percent of Romania's GDP (Gross Domestic Product). The research examines the main causes of dynamic evolution of the number of workplace accidents. Our theory argues that reducing the number of accidents is largely attributable to structural changes in the economy and to unemployment, and not because of effective and efficient measures of health and safety at workplace. Into research we benefited from the official statistical information freely available. We conclude that our statistical and empirical analysis is consistent with our theory: cyclical fluctuations in the number of workplace accidents have more to do with the recession or growth of a certain sector, rather than to changes in workplace safety.

Techbits: Workshop Focuses on Improving Industry HSE Performance

Techbits Health, safety, and environmental (HSE) incidents have been trending downward in the oil and gas industry for more than a decade. The philosophy of running an incident-free operation has been embraced by the majority of industry participants. However, in recent years, the general observation is that HSE performance has remained static. SPE recently assembled leaders in the field to try to find ways to reduce the number of workplace accidents. In 2010, a forum titled “Getting to Zero” was conducted. The outcome stimulated a range of responses and a follow-up workshop titled “Continuing the Journey to Zero” was held last fall. The workshop in Austin, Texas, attracted 90 attendees from 10 countries and 55 companies. The topics covered: The current state of safety leadership Executive managements’ vision of the journey to zero incidents Analyzing lagging indicators How leading key performance indicators affect performance Learning from incidents Human factors engineering Developing and sustaining a proper safety culture The participants said that the industry has many examples of outstanding leadership and performance. They agreed that the session should form a continuing part of the growing global dialog on attaining the goal of zero incidents and decided that the results of the workshop would be made available to other forums. Some of the presentations were made by people outside of the oil and gas industry, such as governmental bodies and the aviation industry. They stimulated interest and vibrant discussions. One topic was the general public’s view of the oil and gas industry. The worst reported HSE performance may be assumed by the lay person to be the industry norm. If true, the implications of poor performance obviously affect all participants in the industry. Another subject concerned “self-reporting” in the aviation industry. The notion that individuals are able to report below-standard behavior to the management without fear of retribution provoked a lively discussion. Leading and lagging indicators sparked much interest. The maligned lagging indicators were shown to be still an essential part in the understanding of overall performance. They provided critical information in dissecting the causes of systemic failures. Leading indicators remain an elusive but much sought-after part of the goal of zero incidents. The participants support continuing work in making them a universally acceptable standard. Experienced senior leaders gave invaluable insight into learning from incidents. A common theme was the removal of blame and the encouragement of honesty and openness in investigating root causes. The behavior of the senior leader is the crucial factor in unearthing critical lessons. Human factors are key elements toward creating an illness- and incident-free workplace. Using a series of pictures of an industrial site, attendees were given a bird’s-eye view of how poor design guarantees poor worker behavior. The conclusion was that an investment in effective design prevented potential cost in injuries and rework. In addition, a full understanding of the limitations of human body movement can contribute to creating a safe and healthy operating environment.