scholarly journals The Impact of Job, Site, and Industry Experience on Worker Health and Safety

Safety ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily J. Haas ◽  
Brianna Eiter ◽  
Cassandra Hoebbel ◽  
Margaret E. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Hazard Identification ◽  
Safety Skills ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Job Knowledge ◽  
Job Site ◽  
Worker Experience ◽  
The Impact

A debate exists about the impact of mineworker experience on health and safety (H&S). Studies often assert that length of time on the job (tenure) is negatively associated with accidents (i.e., new employees have a higher accident rate). However, inferences are all made based on reported incidents, whereas we know that underreporting is a problem in high-risk occupations. To that end, this study sought to examine how worker experience may impact a variety of H&S outcomes on the job. Comprised of three separate case studies with different H&S outcome variables, researchers broke down the results of several data sets that were collected from 3400 miners who worked in either underground coal, surface sand, stone, and gravel, or metal/non-metal to reveal any underlying trends among differing levels of experience on a specific job, with a specific company, and in the mining industry. Each case study is described in turn, using Kruskall-Wallis tests to determine the impact miners’ experience on hazard recognition accuracy (Case 1), self-escape confidence (Case 2), and safety compliance (Case 3). The results show that workers with more job experience possess higher levels of perceived health and safety skills, including the identification of hazards on the job. We discuss the impact of experience on several predictors of incidents, including perceived job knowledge and hazard identification, and perceived compliance on the job. Practitioners can expect to gain a greater understanding of their workforce, including actual differences and similarities to consider, when communicating pieces of their health and safety management system to training workers of all experience levels.

scholarly journals The Effect of Occupational Health and Safety Management on Performance in the Banking Sector, Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Gilbert Joshua Atteh Sewu ◽  
Emmanuel Gyabeng ◽  
Adelaide Angela Dadzie ◽  
Nana Kwame Nkrumah
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Statistical Relationships ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

A survey was conducted to investigate the impact of occupational health and safety measures (OHSMs) on the performance of Banks in Ghana. Questionnaires were administered to employees of various Banks in the country. Using a Likert scale, respondents were asked to assess the impact of OHSMs on the performance of their Banks. The reliability of the survey data collected was tested using Cronbach’s alpha. Subsequently, Pearson correlation and simple regression were used to understand the statistical relationships between variables in terms of the magnitude and the direction (positive or negative) and to determine the degree of variance among dependent and independent variables. Findings suggest that there was a slightly moderate positive correlation between OHSMs and performance of Banks. Although employees generally agreed that OHSMs were in practice, the measures should be improved and government should reinforce policies for the implementation of OHSMs and ensure compliance by the Banks.

scholarly journals A projection analysis of C2R models applied in grey prediction on OHASA18001 safety investment and benefit of a mining industry

Filomat ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 1581-1587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiangdong Bao ◽  
Jingdong Zhang ◽  
Shui-Ping Shi
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Grey Prediction ◽  
Integrated Method ◽  
Effective Operation ◽  
Projection Analysis ◽  
Safety Investment ◽  
Safety Benefit

A projection analysis of C2R model is adopted to calculate the safety investment, and benefit. On this basis, GM(1:1)model (Grey prediction model) is established to predict the safety benefit and safety investment values of 2017. This integrated method of C2R model and GM(1:1)model provides a direction and theoretical reference for optimizing the investment and a structure for the effective operation of mining industry occupational health and safety management system.

scholarly journals The Role of Electrocardiography in Occupational Medicine, from Einthoven’s Invention to the Digital Era of Wearable Devices

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (14) ◽  
pp. 4975
Author(s):  
Antonio Baldassarre ◽  
Nicola Mucci ◽  
Martina Padovan ◽  
Alessia Pellitteri ◽  
Silvia Viscera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Printed Circuit Boards ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Pathological Condition ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Physiological Parameters ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Biometric Data ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
The Impact

Clinical-instrumental investigations, such as electrocardiography (ECG), represent a corollary of a procedures that, nowadays, is called upon as part of the principles of precision medicine. However when carrying out the professional routine examinations, most tend to ignore how a “simple” instrument can offer indispensable support in clinical practice, even in occupational medicine. The advent of the digital age, made of silicon and printed circuit boards, has allowed the miniaturization of the electronic components of these electro-medical devices. Finally, the adoption of patient wearables in medicine has been rapidly expanding worldwide for a number of years. This has been driven mainly by consumers’ demand to monitor their own health. With the ongoing research and development of new features capable of assessing and transmitting real-time biometric data, the impact of wearables on cardiovascular management has become inevitable. Despite the potential offered by this technology, as evident from the scientific literature, the application of these devices in the field of health and safety in the workplace is still limited. This may also be due to the lack of targeted scientific research. While offering great potential, it is very important to consider and evaluate ethical aspects related to the use of these smart devices, such as the management of the collected data relating to the physiological parameters and the location of the worker. This technology is to be considered as being aimed at monitoring the subject’s physiological parameters, and not at the diagnosis of any pathological condition, which should always be on charge of the medical specialist We conducted a review of the evolution of the role that electrophysiology plays as part of occupational health and safety management and on its possible future use, thanks to ongoing technological innovation.

Green recovery strategies for the mining industry of India: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramaganesh Marimuthu ◽  
Bathrinath Sankaranarayanan ◽  
Syed Mithun Ali ◽  
Koppiahraj Karuppiah
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Recovery Strategies ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Difficult Situations

Purpose This study aims to find and evaluate the impact of COVID-19 in India’s mining activities. From the literature survey and input from experts, 14 important factors and ten green recovery strategies are identified. These 14 factors and 10 strategies are examined in a real industrial environment. Design/methodology/approach In this research study, fuzzy-complex proportional assessment is used to compare the identified strategies with the selected factors. Based on the outcome, this study identifies the optimum strategy that could assist the mining industry in handling both COVID-19 and sustainability issues. Findings The study’s outcome reveals that a large group of workers, collapse of demand and disruption, and suffered contractual workers are the top three factors that need to be considered regarding COVID-19 and sustainability issues. Effective strategies for eco-innovation practices, an emphasis on health and safety, and environmental awareness, education and training are the three primary strategies to be implemented for the greatest impact. Originality/value This research study is the first of its kind to coordinate both issues of COVID-19 and sustainability. In this regard, this study sheds a timely light on the precautions that need to be taken in tackling COVID-19 and sustainability issues. This study’s outcome will enhance the managerial capability in developing robust and effective strategies for handling difficult situations.

scholarly journals Occupational health and safety management in “small size” enterprises, with particular emphasis on hazards identification

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 195-201
Author(s):  
Marta Niciejewska ◽  
Olga Kiriliuk
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe article presents the element of occupational health and safety management in enterprises, with particular emphasis on the identification of occupational hazards. The factors that may be a source of occupational hazards have been classified and divided. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of occupational hazards on work safety in the opinion of employees of micro and small enterprises. The research was carried out using the proprietary questionnaire. The results were verified by means of a direct interview with elements of observation. The research was compared with the trends prevailing in the enterprises of the European Union countries according to the results of the research conducted by EU-OSHA. Polish respondents considered physical and psychophysical factors to be the main occupational hazards. The results turned out to be very similar to those presented by EU-OSHA in its publicly available reports. The basic principle of occupational health and safety management, i.e. identification of occupational hazards, is reliability and correctness. Identification of occupational hazards gives the opportunity to take correct and effective corrective and preventive actions reducing occupational risk, for example through the effective use of personal protective equipment, or a more detailed treatment of both introductory and instructional training. The article also highlights the migration of individual occupational hazards, which depends on many factors, both professional and non-professional.

scholarly journals The Occupational Health and Safety Performance, of a Multinational Industrial Compagny Located in Casablanca, Kingdom of Morocco

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 4790-4796
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Safety Practices ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of the research is to present a statistical approach using latent and manifest variables applied to measure the occupational health and safety performance of a worldwide enterprise (energy sector) located in Casablanca, Kingdom of Morocco. The principal idea is to measure the impact of occupational health and safety practices OHS (which are divided into seven segments: Leadership and worker participation, Planning, Support, Operation, Improvement, Performance evaluation and Organizational context) on the OHS performance (which is divided into two perspectives: (Workers Results perspectives and Finance Results perspectives), enabling the company to characterize her performance regarding to the ISO 45001 standard's. To do this, we use the SEM’s resolution based on the Partial Least squares (PLS) method via the XL-STAT software on a sample of 139 questionnaires administered face-to-face with managers, technicians, engineers and directors of this company. The obtained results could be examined in order to analyze the occupational health and safety management system performance, in order to reveal the challenges faced by company to maintain the ISO 45001 and to make suggestion to improve operational health and safety process, plan the improvements and develop an action plan.

scholarly journals KESIAPAN SISTEM PENANGGULANGAN KEBAKARAN PADA GEDUNG FAKULTAS TEKNIK UNIVERSITAS SYIAH KUALA

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-127
Author(s):  
Dede Hermansyah ◽  
Mochammad Afifuddin ◽  
Abdul Munir
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Fire Hazard ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Hazard Identification ◽  
Management Institutions

Fire hazard is one of the risks that must be considered in the building safety management. This study aims to determine the condition of fire risk in the Engineering Faculty Building, Syiah Kuala University Banda Aceh. The analysis used in this research is Hazard identification, Risk Assessment and Risk Control and descriptive analysis. Data were collected using questionnaire survey, interview, and observation. The purposive sampling method is used to determine the number of samples. A total of 238 samples were collected with target respondents are lecturers, employees, and students at the Faculty of Engineering, Syiah Kuala University. Observations were conducted at the Engineering Building of A1, A2, and A3. Further, we conducted a direct interview with an expert of the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS). The result from the analysis the value of firefighting unit counted on an average 688.7. It can be concluded that the condition of fire protection system preparedness in the building of Faculty of Engineering, Syiah Kuala University in bad condition. Furthermore, the result of the assessment of fire risk in administrative room, supporting room, lecture room, and library room obtained shows is a low risk, while as for the laboratory room categorize a high risk. Fire risk controls are needed as the most effective in implementing Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) management systems, including establishing OHS fire management institutions and fire safety coordinator of a faculty composed in fire prevention procedures.

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