A study of occupational safety hazards: Safety and health issues in automotive industry

Abstract

This paper is based on a study on occupational safety hazards that affects the cost implication to the company with the existence of safety and health issues in Malaysian automotive industry. The aims of the study is to examine the extent of the occupational hazards in workplace resulting to the cost implication to the company by focusing on ergonomic, physical and chemical hazards. A set of comprehensive questionnaires was distributed to representative workers through self-administered method. The finding reveals the most outstanding hazards which is physical hazard and to what extent it is associated to the safety and health issues that causing to the cost implication. The result shows that although there are hazards existing in workplaces but it does not affect the cost implication to the company and it is called as optimization instead of cost.

Applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to choose a human factors technique: Choosing the suitable Human Reliability Analysis technique for the automotive industry

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Analysis of Safety Compliance and Accident Impacts on Lost time Performance of Small Scale Automotive Maintenance Workshops in Calabar, Nigeria

“…Furthermore, multivariate linear regression analysis in MS Excel and Minitab 7.1 statistical tools were used to establish the relation between overall productivity lost factor (OPLF) from accident index, lost time and severity index, and graphs plotted accordingly. The element of multivariate regression is expressed in equation [9]. Discussion Figure 1 shows that superficial wounds, burns injuries, and was prevailing among panel body work auto mechanics with an average of 28.1% and 18.7%.…”

“…Furthermore, Table 3 shows the result of the multivariate liner regression model formulated to relate overall productivity lost factor with accident index, lost time and severity index as presented in equation (9). Table 3 indicates that the accident index has a beta coefficient ( ) of 659.2 at a probability value of 0.000 < 0.05.…”

Caracterización del Sector Cerámico Tradicional del Valle de Aburrá y los Riesgos Profesionales Latentes en su Proceso Productivo

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