Situation Analysis of Occupational Safety and Health in Small-Scale Sugarcane Processing Establishments in Kenya

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (22) ◽  
pp. 670-673
Author(s):  
D.A. Mutuli ◽  
H. A. Onyoyo ◽  
P.W. Makhonge
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Sugarcane Processing

In both the agricultural and industrial sectors, working conditions of the workers are far from satisfactory leading to excessive drudgery and a host of occupational injuries and accidents. Workers are forced to endure working environments that lack any consideration in aspects of occupational health, safety and comfort. About 60 per cent of the employed people in Kenya are in small-scale industries. The sugar industry in Kenya has seventy-one (71) small-scale sugarcane processing establishments scattered throughout the Sugar Belt employing labour-intensive techniques and providing essential employment to the rural people. The work environment is unsatisfactory and management is often unaware of the poor working conditions and the types of improvements that can enhance productivity. Given the important role played by these establishments in the rural economy, a qualitative study of these establishments was undertaken with a view to mapping out the occupational safety and health problems afflicting them. This paper, therefore, attempts to analyse the situation and thereby chart out a strategy for improvement designed to enhance productivity while improving safety and health. It concludes by proposing an awareness campaign targeted specifically to the small-scale manufacturing establishments on the importance of occupational safety and health together with the setting up of a scholarship scheme to assist these establishments gain access to the awareness campaigns currently going on in the country.

scholarly journals Regulation by Shaming: Deterrence Effects of Publicizing Violations of Workplace Safety and Health Laws

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (6) ◽  
pp. 1866-1904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Improve Compliance ◽  
Health Laws ◽  
Health Regulations

Publicizing firms’ socially undesirable actions may enhance firms’ incentives to avoid such actions. In 2009, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began issuing press releases about facilities that violated safety and health regulations. Using quasi-random variation arising from a cutoff rule OSHA followed, I find that publicizing a facility’s violations led other facilities to substantially improve their compliance and experience fewer occupational injuries. OSHA would need to conduct 210 additional inspections to achieve the same improvement in compliance as achieved with a single press release. Evidence suggests that employers improve compliance to avoid costly responses from workers. (JEL J28, J81, K32, L51, M54)

Working conditions in selected hospital rooms: results of a pilot study on noise, illumination and microclimate

2018 ◽  
Vol 567 (12) ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Bożena Smagowska ◽  
Dariusz Pleban ◽  
Andrzej Sobolewski ◽  
Andrzej Pawlak
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Measurement Methods ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Safety And Health

The article presents an assessment of three physical factors of the work environment, i.e. noise, illumination and microclimate in selected rooms of a hospital. The rooms were selected in cooperation with occupational safety and health services. Quantities characterizing noise, illumination and microclimate were measured in the operating room and in the sterilization and pathomorphology rooms. For this purpose, the measurement methods included in the standards were applied. The pilot study showed that noise limits were exceeded in terms of annoyance and that there is a need to improve illumination in the operating room, in the sterilization room and in the histological laboratory. In the operating and in the sterilization rooms, the requirement of thermal comfort was met with the assumption of low physical activity of employees, while in the pathomorphology room, changes are necessary.

IMPACT OF OSHA ON GEOPHYSICAL OPERATIONS

Geophysics ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 380-380
Author(s):  
Frank Searcy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
District Of Columbia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Safety And Health

The Williams‐Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 has placed new responsibilities on everyone involved in geophysical operations in the United States. This law applies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and territories under the jurisdiction of the United States. The declared congressional purpose of the act is “to assure so far as possible every working man and woman in the nation safe and healthful working conditions and to preserve our human resources.”

scholarly journals Working conditions and occupational safety and health hazards of women fire fighters and law enforcers in Ilocos Norte

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
J.M.L.S. Cagampang ◽  
L.G.D. Aldoz ◽  
P.R.C. Coloma ◽  
A.M.D. Ochoco ◽  
M.S. Tolentino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
Fire Fighters ◽  
Safety And Health

A Short History of Occupational Safety and Health in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (5) ◽  
pp. 622-628
Author(s):  
David Rosner ◽  
Gerald Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
The United States ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Mine Safety ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Short History ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of

As this short history of occupational safety and health before and after establishment of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) clearly demonstrates, labor has always recognized perils in the workplace, and as a result, workers’ safety and health have played an essential part of the battles for shorter hours, higher wages, and better working conditions. OSHA’s history is an intimate part of a long struggle over the rights of working people to a safe and healthy workplace. In the early decades, strikes over working conditions multiplied. The New Deal profoundly increased the role of the federal government in the field of occupational safety and health. In the 1960s, unions helped mobilize hundreds of thousands of workers and their unions to push for federal legislation that ultimately resulted in the passage of the Mine Safety and Health Act of 1969 and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. From the 1970s onward, industry developed a variety of tactics to undercut OSHA. Industry argued over what constituted good science, shifted the debate from health to economic costs, and challenged all statements considered damaging.

AN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STATE PLAN1

1974 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-85
Author(s):  
Dick B. Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Health State ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
State Plan ◽  
Congressional Action

The reasons for the Occupational Safety and Health Act are reviewed, including a brief summary of the Congressional action incident to passage of the Act. The declared purpose of Congress is delineated in the 13 ways proposed to achieve its purpose to assure, so far as possible, safe and healthful working conditions for every employee in America and to preserve this country's human resources. Coverage of the Act and some aspects of its implementation are considered. The basic consideration of developing and implementing a State Plan are outlined including some of the disconcerting problems involved.

Socio-Economic Importance of Audit Working Conditions, Safety and Health

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-14
Author(s):  
Смирнова ◽  
Marina Smirnova ◽  
Кохова ◽  
Irina Kokhova
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Safe Technology ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Audit Activity

Labour protection is one of the areas in the sphere of enterprise activity. Development of audit activity in the protection of labor will give the development of the system of external and internal audit, as an alternative to the system of state control. The article deals with the modern understanding of the conditions and safety. The definitions of “Working Environment”, “Working Conditions”, “Occupational Safety and Health.” It reveals the importance of health and safety for today’s workers. The author analyzes the current situation in the Russian Federation in the field of health and safety based on the data of Rosstat. We investigate occupational diseases, injuries, accidents at work. We investigate promising areas of assessment of working conditions on the basis of modern organization of audit of indicators such as the causes and conditions of occupational injuries for the previous period, especially the use of advanced technology and safe technology; ergonomic devices that protect the rights, etc.

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