An evaluation of the occupational accidents among logging workers within the boundaries of Trabzon Forestry Directorate, Turkey

Enez, Korhan; Topbaş, Murat; Acar, H. Hulusi

doi:10.1016/j.ergon.2014.07.002

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“…Yoshimura and Acar [26] demonstrated that among 113 seasonal workers, a very large group of respondents (as many as 73%) did not use any personal protection measures, while the remaining 27% used protective gloves, footwear, goggles, and hearing protection [26]. Similar results were presented by Enez et al [27]. Different results were obtained by Gedik and Korkut [28], who found that 77.7% of employees, in order to provide safety, use protective measures at the workplace, mainly gloves, masks, goggles, and helmets.…”

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Causes of accidents at work in the opinions of public sector forestry employees in Poland

Buczaj

Pecyna

Lachowski

et al. 2020

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Causes of accidents at work in the opinions of public sector forestry employees in Poland

Buczaj

Pecyna

Lachowski

et al. 2020

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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“…Gandaseca & Yoshimura (2001) state that 73% of the workers in forest harvesting in Turkey does not wear the prescribed PPE, and the remaining 27% uses protective gloves, boots, glasses, and hearing protectors. On the other hand, Enez et al (2014) found in his study that 54% of workers in forest harvesting in Turkey uses gloves, 9% uses boots, and 2% uses helmet. To compare, the participants in our study stated they use all prescribed PPE.…”

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“…Compared to other countries, this share is low, e.g. in Slovinia, Enez et al (2014) state that 24% of occupational accidents occurr during yarding, in New Zealand it is 22% (Gaskin & Parker 1993), in Sweden it is 20% (Engsås 1995). Most of the injuries that the employees suffered were located on the extremities in our case, though in case of the PR employees, head and neck was a frequent injury location.…”

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“…However, when compared to objective data by Tsioras et al (2011) on seasonal occurrence of occupational accidents, we see that the most occupational accidents occurr in October, followed by March, June, and November. Enez et al (2014) states that 39% of the workers described terrain at the time when the occupational accident happened as steep, out of which 82% stated that the soil surface was moist and slippery. This corresponds to our results, as both PU and PR employees stated they consider terrain to be the dominant factor of the work environment.…”

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Is cable yarding a dangerous occupation? A Survey from the public and private sector

Allman

Allmanová

Martin

2018

Central European Forestry Journal

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Cable yarding is a physically demanding and dangerous occupation in forest harvesting. Currently, the technology is gaining interest due to its low environmental impacts compared to the ground based technologies. This paper was focused on comparing the subjective opinions regarding occupational safety and work environment with objective findings found in the literature. We used a questionnaire with 33 questions, divided into three main parts: (i) personal traits of the participants; (ii) occupation description; and (iii) the occupational risks identified the participants. The sample consisted of 92 workers who operated cable yarders from both the public and the private sector. Our survey showed that 90% of public and 75% of private sector employees view their work as physically very demanding. Regarding risky behaviour, 50% of public, and 54% of private employees stated they risked only when the circumstances forced them to. However, more than 41% of public and 50% of private employees stated they suffered an occupational accident in the last ten years of working with this technology. Considering the workers worked in unstable climatic conditions, on unstable terrain, and the work environment presents other hazards, such as the loads, sharp tools and equipment, this result was not surprising.

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“…54.17% of the workers stated that they often consume tea and coffee. Enez et al (2014) studies, it is observed that there are fewer habits such as alcohol and cigarettes in forest workers.…”

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A Research on Work Satisfaction of Forest Workers

Gümüş

Hatay

Okan

et al. 2018

European Journal of Forest Engineering

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Forestry works have an important work branch in the Eastern Black Sea Region because of the wealth of forested areas, the multiplicity of forest villages, the intense forestry activities and the lack of different income sources of forest villagers. Therefore, forestry activities are one of the main industries for forest villagers to prevent unemployment and to reduce income imbalance between different regions. Forestry activities differ from other sectors because of work difficulty, hard working conditions, limited time, temporary work, low revenue and legal dimension of work. Harvesting works should be done by forest villagers in accordance with article 40 of Forest Law. The analysis of the socioeconomic structure of a community is important both in giving photographs of the current period and in presenting the transformations of working class dynamics over time. In this study, the relationship between the demographic features of forest workers and work satisfaction was examined. Within the scope of the study, a questionnaire including questions about personal characteristics, family structures, economic incomes and work satisfaction was applied to the workers. As a result, it was determined that 35.83% of all workers were between 31 and 40 ages and primary school (35%). In addition, forest workers had no income sources except for forest (77.5%), and most of the workers were the livelihoods of their families (81.4%) and working for 6-8 hours. Most of them are satisfied with forest workers (65.83%), and the main reasons for not being satisfied were determined as low income, lack of social security and difficult working conditions (18.33%).

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An evaluation of the occupational accidents among logging workers within the boundaries of Trabzon Forestry Directorate, Turkey

Cited by 27 publications

References 17 publications

Causes of accidents at work in the opinions of public sector forestry employees in Poland

Causes of accidents at work in the opinions of public sector forestry employees in Poland

Is cable yarding a dangerous occupation? A Survey from the public and private sector

A Research on Work Satisfaction of Forest Workers

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