scholarly journals Risk Evaluation of a Boron Mine and Processing Plant with Respect to Dust

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Hasbi Atılmış ◽  
Baran Tufan
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Processing Plant ◽  
Mining Sector ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
And Control

The technological developments affect mining sector directly since the machineries and equipment used in this sector changes along with constantly developing technology. So, the risks of occupational accidents and occupational diseases are quite high in this sector. It is necessary to focus on occupational health and safety in the mining sector regarding the machineries and equipment used. This study was carried out in an open pit mine of boron minerals with class of very dangerous in the scope of occupational health and safety. The workplace on scope is evaluated in terms of the health and safety risks of employees. In this context, one of the major types of risk is dust, originated from machineries and equipment. The stages of open pit operation, crushing, screening, grinding and bagging are evaluated regarding dust formation and control. Risks that may arise due to the use of equipment and preventative measures have been determined. Such studies impose great affect in the development of occupational health and safety with the developing mining sector and prevention of accidents that may occur.

scholarly journals THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR PREGNANT WORKERS IN VARIOUS WORKPLACES

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Aditira Dwi Hanani
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Maternity Leave ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Safety Programs ◽  
Special Protection ◽  
Health And Safety Programs

Pregnant workers have more health risks for health problems than other workers. There are different potential hazards in different workplaces. Occupational Health and Safety Programs need to be implemented for pregnant workers in order to avoid work related diseases in various workplaces. This study aims to determine the the implementation of occupational health and safety for pregnant workers in various workplaces. This study uses a qualitative method by conducting FGD (Focus Group Discussion) with pregnant women workers from various workplaces and in-depth interviews with occupational health and safety experts. Occupational health and safety programs have been implemented for pregnant workers such as the right to maternity leave, working hours arrangements, health insurance, and special protection for pregnant workers. However, there are some workplaces that still do not provide special protection for pregnant workers. Every workplace should pay more attention to the health and safety of pregnant workers as an effort to prevent occupational accidents and work related diseases

scholarly journals Impact of Alcohol on Occupational Health and Safety in the Construction Industry at Workplaces with Scaffoldings

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 6690
Author(s):  
Marek Sawicki ◽  
Mariusz Szóstak
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
Different Sources

The value, care, and customs of workers are essential in terms of occupational health and safety. The abuse of alcohol is widely regarded as a serious threat to the lives, health, and safety of employees. The aim of the research was to identify the main problems that are associated with alcohol abuse and consumption at work among employees in the construction industry, with particular emphasis on workstations where work is carried out on construction scaffoldings. Data for the analysis were obtained from two different sources. The first one was post-accident documentation on occupational accidents. The second one was surveys collected during the research project. This study confirmed that excessive and disproportionate alcohol consumption can be the cause of an accident, and consequently death at workplaces with scaffolding. Of 219 accident reports, 17.4% indicated alcohol as a contributing factor. Analysis of accident documentations shows that in cases where alcohol was indicated as a contributing factor in an accident, the alcohol was consumed during the workday. The results obtained on the basis of the conducted research were able to constitute a justification for the directions of preventive actions carried out in order to reduce the number of occupational accidents in the construction industry caused by alcohol.

scholarly journals Occupational Health and Safety Practices Assessment in Damietta Port, North Egypt

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Mokhtar S. Beheary ◽  
Ahmed Abdelaal ◽  
Samira M. Matar
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Safety System ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Safety Practices ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
And Control ◽  
Different Sources

Occupational, health and safety system (OHS) is a sensitive item for each organization. Health and safety is part of the business, just like production and quality. Therefore, it should be managed in the same way as other aspects of business. This study investigated the safety culture and behavior between the labors, assess the implemented safety system and evaluate the surround environmental workplace. Field data were collected from different sources, i.e. questionnaire, interview, personal observation and documentary evidence. From collected results, the occupational health and safety measures implemented in some workplaces are not sufficient and some workers are dissatisfied with the current occupational health and safety measures. Health and safety should be the concern of each worker in the organization and this can only be achieved when serious training and education is carried out. Also, monitoring, inspection and evaluate existing health and safety measures on regular basis is very important for improvement and control the risk to achieve occupational health for the port man-power.

scholarly journals Occupational health and safety characteristics of agricultural workers in Adana, Turkey: a cross-sectional study

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e4952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramazan Azim Okyay ◽  
Ferdi Tanır ◽  
Pelin Mutlu Ağaoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Agricultural Workers ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Mean

Background Among agricultural workers, especially in the seasonal migratory ones, housing and hygiene related issues, occupational accidents, low levels of education, poverty and absence of social security problems emerge as significant public health problems. This study aims to compare migrant-seasonal workers (MSWs) and resident agricultural workers (RAWs) in terms of socio-demographic characteristics and occupational health and safety in Adana, one of Turkey’s most important agricultural cities. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted on RAWs and MSWs, aged 15–65, operating in the province of Adana. The calculated sample sizes for both MSWs and RAWs were distributed using stratified simple random sampling to five districts of Adana. Results The mean age of the 798 participating agricultural workers was 34.6 ± 14.2. Of the RAWs, 78.8% and of the MSWs 57.0% were male; 5.8% of RAWs and 32.8% of MSWs were illiterate. The mean number of people in the households of the participating workers was 5.1 for RAWs and 6.6 for MSWs. Of the RAWs, 20.5% were not covered by any social security scheme while this percentage was 35.1% in MSWs. RAWs worked 9.9 h a day while MSWs worked 10.9 h a day. Of the agricultural workers, 12.9% had injuries caused by occupational accidents. Discussion Agricultural workers, who are a large part of Turkey’s economically active population, do not have healthy and safe working conditions. New regulations in the fields of social security, record keeping, monitoring, supervision, education and occupational health have been implemented recently to solve these problems. Despite the recent improvements there are still some problematic issues in the auditing of the necessary practices.

scholarly journals Occupational Characteristics in the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Delta Variant in Nanjing, China: Rethinking the Occupational Health and Safety Vulnerability of Essential Workers

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10734
Author(s):  
Yujun Liu ◽  
Bowen Yang ◽  
Linping Liu ◽  
Maitixirepu Jilili ◽  
Anuo Yang
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Infection Risk ◽  
Effective Protection ◽  
Workplace Hazards ◽  
Occupational Characteristics ◽  
And Control

The risk of contracting COVID-19 varies by occupation. Clarifying the occupational disparity in the infection risk is crucial to the prevention and control of the epidemic in the workplace. In late July, some new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed among cleaners working in Lukou International Airport in Nanjing, China. The infected cases rapidly increased and spread to many domestic cities in the following days. The present study traces the brief reports of epidemiological investigations among the confirmed cases released by the Nanjing government from 20 July to 2 August, and offers a descriptive analysis on the occupational distribution of these cases. Cleaners and other staff working in the airport were found to make up more than 40% of all cases. The overwhelming majority of the cleaner cases were confirmed in the first 7 days. The present study statistically ascertains that the airport cleaners were the initial sufferers and transmitters in this outbreak. They experienced occupational health and safety vulnerability on both individual and contextual levels, including workplace hazards, workplace safety policies, and lack of awareness and empowerment. Effective protection for essential workers and the strict surveillance of occupational health in the workplace is urgently needed.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAMS

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
HanaeErrhouni .
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Safety Program ◽  
Safety Programs ◽  
Health And Safety Programs

An occupational health and safety program is a specific action plan to prevent occupational accidents and diseases. Since companies are all different, a program designed for one is not necessarily appropriate for the others.This document summarizes the main elements of an occupational health and safety program.This should help small and medium-sized enterprises to formulate a program tailored to their particular needs.

scholarly journals Effects of Occupational Environment on Employee Performance in Sugar Industries in Western Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Sylvia Bisela Simiyu ◽  
Muganda Munir Manini ◽  
Victor Lusala Aliata
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Western Kenya ◽  
Occupational Environment ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Relationship

The Occupational Safety and Health Act No. 15 of 2007 and reread in 2010, offers for the safety health and benefit of personnel and all individuals lawfully current at places of employment in Kenya. Despite this workers have continued to face occupational health and safety challenges which expose them to a wide range of accidents which eventually pull down their performance. According to ILO statistics on safety and health at work of 28th April 2016, 6300 individuals succumb daily due to occupational accidents or employment associated ailments and deaths exceeding 2.3 million yearly. The study was purposed to investigate the effect of occupational health and safety (OHS) on employee performance in Sugar Industries in Western Kenya. The explicit objective was to determine the effects of occupational environment on employee performance in sugar industries in Western Kenya. The target population comprised 8801 staff in all the sugar firms in Western Kenya. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 383. Primary data was gathered by use of questions which were validated through a pilot study of 10 staff prior to the main research. Cronbach alpha coefficient with a threshold of 0.70 was used to test the reliability of the research instrument. The study findings revealed that: occupational environment contributed to employee performance β=0.585. The R2 change after incorporating Top Management Support was 0.290, P=0.000 implying that TMS statistically moderates the relationship between occupational health and safety and employee performance. Study concluded that: Occupational environment has a significant effect on employee performance while TMS has a significant moderator and influences the relationship between OHS and employee performance.

The Federal Ergonomic Standard in Brazil: Its Social Historic Process

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thais Helena De Carvalho Barreira ◽  
Mary Lee Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Safety Regulations ◽  
Control Regulation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technical Advances ◽  
Federal Standard ◽  
And Control

Brazil has a Federal Ergonomic Standard [1] enacted in 1990 that attracts the attention of practitioners in occupational health and safety fields because it is viewed symbolically as a political gain and because of its technical advances. The 1990 ergonomic standard modified a former one that was issued within a set of 28 occupational health and safety regulations established in 1978 [2]. This article focuses on the social and historical steps in a persistent workers' struggle for a healthier work environment in the late 1980s that resulted in this federal standard as a “command-and-control” regulation pioneering a wide tripartite process of policy-making in Brazil.

scholarly journals Managing workplace bullying in New Zealand: Perspectives from occupational health and safety practitioners

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 598-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bevan Catley ◽  
Tim Bentley ◽  
Darryl Forsyth ◽  
Helena Cooper-Thomas ◽  
Dianne Gardner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Free Environment

AbstractResearch into workplace bullying has only recently begun to investigate preventative measures. This paper continues that emphasis by examining the management of bullying in a sample of New Zealand organisations. In this study, the survey results from 252 occupational health and safety practitioners were analysed to examine how bullying is understood and managed, along with factors that predict preventative efforts. Results indicate that bullying was perceived to impact significantly on organisations, although the organisations had limited preventative measures in place. The findings confirm the importance of leadership and the establishment of an effective bully-free environment as preventative measures.

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