Workplace Accident Prevention Research Articles

THE NECESSITY OF PROTECTING LIVES: THE LUCAS LAW AS A STARTING POINT FOR OTHER LABOR SECTORS

Objective: To analyze the importance of first aid within the business context, highlighting the necessity and benefits of training employees to effectively handle emergency situations. Theoretical Framework: The Lucas Law prevents tragedies by training professionals for emergencies, increasing survival rates. It emphasizes the importance of daily preparedness and serves as a starting point for promoting public policies that encourage companies to train employees in first aid. Method: A qualitative research was conducted in scientific articles, using an integrative literature review, identifying the theme and guiding question; establishing inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results and Discussion: It is estimated that workplace accidents cause an annual loss of 4% of the global gross domestic product (GDP), with Brazil ranking fourth worldwide in fatal workplace accidents. Research with rural workers showed that 11% suffered some work-related accident within a year. These data highlight the importance of proper training for the prevention of workplace accidents. Research Implications: This research highlights the importance of first aid training in the business environment, promoting a safe workplace and influencing public policies on accident prevention. Originality/Value: This study underscores the critical need for first aid in the business environment, offering an innovative approach to training. Its relevance is evidenced by the potential reduction in workplace accidents and the promotion of a safer environment

Safety interventions for the prevention of accidents at work: A systematic review.

Safety interventions for the prevention of accidents at work: A systematic review.

Job Safety Analysis (JSA) Implementation In Effort To Reduce Work Accidents At PT Geoservices In Sangatta

Occupational Safety and Health (K3) is the main means for the prevention of workplace accidents, disabilities, and deaths for employees. One way to identify hazards is to use a work safety analysis or better known as the Job Safety Analysis (JSA), which can examine work methods and find hazards from the design of machines, tools, materials, environment, and work processes needed for workers to prevent interference with work safety. This study aims to analyze and determine the implementation of Job Safety Analysis (JSA) to reduce the number of work accidents at PT. Geoservices Sangatta. Job Safety Analysis (JSA) (X) is used as an independent variable while Work Accident (Y) is the dependent variable. Primary data obtained through interviews directly with 5 employees of PT. Geoservices Sangatta. Secondary data obtained through data that is already available at PT. Geoservices Sangatta. The results showed that in the process of carrying out the work of PT. Geoservices Sangatta had made a policy that was committed to implementing occupational safety and health, as well as identifying hazards and prevention at each stage of the job namely by Job Safety Analysis (JSA). The implementation of Job Safety Analysis (JSA) at PT. Geoservices Sangatta can reduce the number of work accidents as seen from the decreasing number of work accidents that occurred at PT. Geoservices Sangatta in early 2020, although in the implementation there are still some lacking especially in the implementation of safety talk which only runs documents or administration, in practice, they are not routinely carried out. PT. Geoservices Sangatta should follow up with the socialization of Job Safety Analysis (JSA) procedures to all employees, one of which is by conducting training on occupational safety and health so that all employees truly understand and realize how important K3 is to employee safety and health.

Job Safety Analysis (JSA) Implementation In Effort To Reduce Work Accidents At PT Geoservices In Sangatta

Occupational Safety and Health (K3) is the main means for the prevention of workplace accidents, disabilities, and deaths for employees. One way to identify hazards is to use a work safety analysis or better known as the Job Safety Analysis (JSA), which can examine work methods and find hazards from the design of machines, tools, materials, environment, and work processes needed for workers to prevent interference with work safety. This study aims to analyze and determine the implementation of Job Safety Analysis (JSA) to reduce the number of work accidents at PT. Geoservices Sangatta. Job Safety Analysis (JSA) (X) is used as an independent variable while Work Accident (Y) is the dependent variable. Primary data obtained through interviews directly with 5 employees of PT. Geoservices Sangatta. Secondary data obtained through data that is already available at PT. Geoservices Sangatta. The results showed that in the process of carrying out the work of PT. Geoservices Sangatta had made a policy that was committed to implementing occupational safety and health, as well as identifying hazards and prevention at each stage of the job namely by Job Safety Analysis (JSA). The implementation of Job Safety Analysis (JSA) at PT. Geoservices Sangatta can reduce the number of work accidents as seen from the decreasing number of work accidents that occurred at PT. Geoservices Sangatta in early 2020, although in the implementation there are still some lacking especially in the implementation of safety talk which only runs documents or administration, in practice, they are not routinely carried out. PT. Geoservices Sangatta should follow up with the socialization of Job Safety Analysis (JSA) procedures to all employees, one of which is by conducting training on occupational safety and health so that all employees truly understand and realize how important K3 is to employee safety and health.

Development of decree 1072 of 2015, as a regulatory factor of practices in the construction field for the prevention of workplace accidents with MHF Construark SAS, carried out during the year 2020 in Bogotá

Introduction: This article "Development of the decree 1072 of 2015, as a regulatory factor of practices in the construction field for the prevention of workplace accidents in MHF Construark SAS" company was executed during 2020 in Bogotá.
 Background: There has been recurring practices in the construction sector that generate difficulties in the implementation of the SGSST, which may be the main cause of this insufficient implementation, which can lead to workplace accidents and occupational diseases.
 Objective: The objective of the investigation is to establish the level of compliance in the implementation of the SGSST, in order to identify determining factors that negatively affect such a process.
 Methods: This research has designed a study with mainly, a qualitative approach. Interviews were conducted with company representatives from the administrative area in charge of implementing the SGSST. 
 Results: The MHF Company has achieved an implementation level of 85%. It is at a high level.
 Conclusion: This project contributes to the research in terms of the study of SGSST in particular, from a perspective that inquiries factors related to the role of key factors such as senior management and construction personnel.
 Originality: A small business of the construction field is investigated, setting up human factors in the SGSST implementation processes and the improvement strategy
 Limitations: information gathering on site was affected due to the circumstances generated by the COVID-19 emergency due to the fact the construction field was forced to suspend work as consequence of the pandemic

The Effect of Application of Work Safety and Health Management System (K3) and Organizational Culture on Employee Work Satisfaction in TK II Hospital, dr. Soepraoen Malang

Occupational safety and health (K3) is an effort to create a safe and comfortable atmosphere to achieve the highest productivity. Factors which influence to achieve the purpose of these efforts, including the company's commitment; leadership policy regarding (K3); policies for the creation of a work environment in order to create K3, delegation of authority, implementation of training and education during the project; prevention of workplace accidents; tracing the main causes of work accidents; measure program performance (K3); and continuous documentation and records of work accidents. The research design used is quantitative research. The sampling technique used proportional sampling with a sample of 100 respondents. Data analysis techniques using multiple linear regression tests. The results show that there was a significant effect and the t test showed 6,665> t table (2,000), meaning that occupational safety and health had a significant effect on job satisfaction and there was a significant effect and the t test showed 6.802> t table (2,000), meaning spatial planning significant effect on employee job satisfaction. Based on the explanation, it can be concluded that the better the K3 management system, organizational culture, K3 management system, the higher the level of Employee Job Satisfaction at the Hospital. II dr. Soepraoen; and the organizational culture (X2) has the highest dominant influence toward employee satisfaction.

Analysis Work Accident of Work Accident of Employee Accident in CV. Pasific Harvest Muncar Banyuwangi District

Occupational accident is one of the most frequent problems with workers in the company. This work accident usually occurs because of the factor of the worker himself and the working environment which in this case is from the employer. The purpose of this study is to analyze the most dominant factors that affect the workplace accident prevention efforts on the occurrence of work accidents in CV. Pacific Harvest Muncar Banyuwangi. The research design used was cross sectional. The research population is All employees in the production department CV. Pacific Harvest of 273 people and a large sample of 162 people. The sampling technique using Simple random sampling and data collection using questionnaire then analyzed using logistic regression. The results showed that there is influence of K3 assurance against work accident (p-value = 0,022 <0,05); there is effect of K3 training to work accident (p-value = 0,039 <0,05); there is influence of APD to work accident (p-value = 0,023 <0,05); no effect of workload on work accident (p-value = 0,938> 0,05); and There is no effect of working hours on work accidents (p-value = 0.699> 0.05). The conclusion is expected for the respondent to pay more attention to health and safety while doing his job because of the many factors that can cause the work accident, the use of personal protective equipment according to the rules and always pay attention to the condition of the field and safe action in work will decrease the risk of accident work.

Hubungan Media Komunikasi K3 dengan Pengetahuan dan Sikap Penggunaan Alat Pelindung Diri pada Karyawan Bagian Produksi

One of the prevention of workplace accidents is to use a personal protective equipment (PPE), but there are still many workers who do not want to use it for various reasons. OHS communication media is one way to improved knowledge and attitudes of workers used PPE. The purpose of this study was to know the relationship between the number of OHS communication media that respondents received with the knowledge and attitude of the PPE. The study design was cross-sectional. Determination of the number of respondents used total sampling methods and get 48 respondents. Data collected by interview used a questionnaire and observation with the checklist that refers to the Workplace Safety and Health for Industrial Marine. The result of knowledge level about PPE of 88% of respondents has been good and 65% of respondents had a positive attitude to the use of PPE. OHS media communication that given by company include in enough category (73%) and the result of analysis OHS communication media with knowledge about PPE used contingency coefficient has a value of 0.412, while analysis OHS communication media with the attitude factor has a value 0,204. In conclusion, the number of OHS communications media received by employees with the level of knowledge have a moderate relationship and the number of OHS communication media received by employees with the attitude of the PPE have a weak relationship.

Workplace Accident Prevalence and Associated Factors among Tobacco Farm in São Lourenço do Sul-RS, Brazil.

Agriculture has the highest risk of accidents. In Brazil the reality of this situation is unknown owing to scarcity of studies and underreporting of workplace accidents in rural areas. This article aims to evaluate workplace accident prevalence and associated factors among tobacco farm in Sao Lourenco do Sul-RS, Brazil. Cross-sectional study with 488 tobacco farmers, assessing sociodemographic, behavioural, labour characteristics and association with workplace accidents occurring in their lifetime. The injury prevalence was 24%. Being male (PR 1.62; 95%CI 1.04-2.52), and tenant farmer (PR 1.87; 95%CI 1.29-2.72), bundling tobacco leaves (PR 2.00; 95%CI 1.14-3.52) and having minor psychiatric disorders (PR 1.58; 95%CI 1.06-2.35) were positively associated with accidents. 46% of serious injuries caused superficial lesions and 26% caused fractures. Rural workplace accident prevention policies need to be established, particularly for tobacco farming. Larger studies are needed to understand work process-related aspects that increase the risk of accidents.

Personality Trait Based Intervention for Workplace Accident Prevention

Personality Trait Based Intervention for Workplace Accident Prevention

The three essentials for accident prevention.

This article was written by Crystal Eastman when she was Secretary of the New York Commission on Employers' Liability and Causes of Industrial Accidents, Unemployment, and Lack of Farm Labor. It was published in July of 1911, in Volume 38, Number 1 of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, pages 98-107. The issue title was "Risks in Modern Industry." Eastman calls for the prevention of workplace accidents through three essentials: injury surveillance/reporting (with annual public reporting of the data); government enforcement of accident prevention laws, via departments with well-paid and well-trained officials and inspectors, fines that are high enough to be a deterrence to employers, and the power to have police shut down a factory if preventive measures are not installed; and a workers' compensation system-"a system of liability by which an employer can reduce his accident costs, not by hiring a more unscrupulous attorney and a more hard-hearted claim agent, but only by reducing his accidents."

Forum: social network for the surveillance and prevention of workplace accidents

In 2008, academic researchers and public service officials created a university extension studies platform based on online and on-site meetings denominated "Work-Related Accidents Forum: Analysis, Prevention, and Other Relevant Aspects. Its aim was to help public agents and social partners to propagate a systemic approach that would be helpful in the surveillance and prevention of work-related accidents. This article describes and analyses such a platform. Online access is free and structured to: support dissemination of updated concepts; support on-site meetings and capacity to build educational activities; and keep a permanent space for debate among the registered participants. The desired result is the propagation of a social-technical-systemic view of work-related accidents that replaces the current traditional view that emphasizes human error and results in blaming the victims. The Forum uses an educational approach known as permanent health education, which is based on the experience and needs of workers and encourages debate among participants. The forum adopts a problematizing pedagogy that starts from the requirements and experiences of the social actors and stimulates support and discussions among them in line with an ongoing health educational approach. The current challenge is to turn the platform into a social networking website in order to broaden its links with society.

Workplace Accident Prevention and Improvement of Work Ability in an Aging Society

[Purpose] This study surveyed work accidents in order to prepare for an aging of society. [Subjects] We surveyed 785 workers at 493 workplaces in the area of Seoul. [Methods] An anonymous survey was done. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS for Windows for frequency, cross-tabulation, logistic regression, and correlation. [Results] The results demonstrate the necessity of the prevention of human errors at all levels, the implementation of the recognition of dangerous factors, the reduction of subconscious risky behaviors, and fast and rational decision processes for work performance. However, it is difficult to prevent 100% of human errors. [Conclusion] It is necessary to establish a work environment that considers humansAf physical and cognitive characteristics to prevent human errors from developing into accidents, and to have a program that enhances work abilities in preparation for the aging of society. Such a program would enhance physical abilities as well as cognitive abilities.

Experience Counts: British Workers, Accident Prevention and Compensation, and the Origins of the Welfare State

This article examines the views of Britain's organized railway, mining, and engineering workers (machinists) and their union leaders about state involvement in workplace accident prevention (1876–97), accident compensation (1876–1911), and the 1911 National Insurance Act. The miners and the railwaymen left numerous comments on these topics because they labored in unusually hazardous trades. (Their unions were large and were relatively democratic.) After 1880, leaders of the miners and railwaymen concluded that it was problematic to rely solely on trade union workplace bargaining power to protect worker life and limb and to compensate injured workers for their economic losses. Faced with what was initially seen as a Hobson's choice between employer compulsion and state compulsion, after the mid-1880s these trade unionists began to lean toward the latter. Historical experience led the trade union leaders whose views are discussed in this article to trust increasingly the Labor Department of the Board of Trade and to endorse Liberal welfare-state programs proposed in 1908 and thereafter. In 1911 the rank-and-file machinists who expressed their views about National Insurance in letters to the labor press were suspicious of augmenting the power of the state, but they were unwilling to scuttle National Insurance, preferring to agitate to expand union rights of participation. Worker opposition tosomefeatures of state-mandated income maintenance programs, especially those with compulsory payroll deductions, should not be interpreted as rejection of the welfare state in principle.

Technological innovations, organizational change and workplace accident prevention

In a case study involving seven industrial firms, the objective of the study was to generate new postulates about the relationship between the way technological change is managed, the organizational transformations leading to more workers’ participation, the introduction of a health and safety program, and the occurrence of occupational accidents and illnesses. Data were obtained from interviews with managers, workers and union representatives and analysis of statistics and a detailed nominal list of work injuries. The changes contribute to improving the working conditions, but at the same time, the intensity of work and the increasing of work load mitigate the results which appeared as a series of ambiguities with which workers must deal.

Responsibility and perspectives in the prevention of musculoskeletal work injuries and accidents--a summary.

Previously, health was interpreted only with technical and biomedical criteria. We here examine health starting with an analysis of the cultural reality: social, ideological, political and labour-oriented. The alternatives that are outlined in the health problems of a country must be, in the fundamental, social Occupational health is part of the individual's health within the human groups of the society, and is known following WHO'S criteria as physical, mental and social welfare. It is also the result of the occupational risks to which the worker is exposed. It is in the field of occupational health that the theme of occupational safety finds its place Occupational safety has as its objective the prevention of workplace accidents, which are in turn conditioned by the occupational risks that depend on human and physical causes: radiation, chemical contamination, harmful work habits, unsafe work conditions, and so on This paper is based on our experience as a country in the process of development and seeki...