Aspects of the Safety and Health at the Workplace

Irimie, Sabina; Munteanu, Rares; Ghicajanu, Mihaela; Marica, Laura

doi:10.1016/s2212-5671(15)00390-1

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“…According to Irimie, Munteanu, Ghicajanu, and Marica (2015), the paper is highlighting the perception of employees regarding the safety and health at work. It involves the information, occupational risks, quality of the working environment, training and satisfaction that relate to the working conditions.…”

Section: Literature Review Employees' Involvementmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Factors Affecting The Workplace Safety in Manufacturing Industry

Said¹,

Yusoff²,

Ali³

et al. 2020

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Lately, issues of incidents in workplace are increasing and this situation obviously brings bad impact to the management and also the workers in manufacturing industries. This quantitative study identifed the factors that influence the workplace safety among the workers. The researcher has selected workers from production department as the population for this study. To complete this study, the researcher has developed a set of questionnaire as the research instrument for collecting the data. The questionnaire consisted of two parts; Part A and Part B. Part A is the demographic factors while part B is the variables involve in this research. The variables were employee involvement, management commitment, workplace environment and workplace safety. The target population was 534 who are workers from production department only. The sampling method was a stratified random sampling based on the table of Krejcie and Morgan and the sample size was 217. The findings were assessed by using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23. SPSS then were analyzed the instrument throughout reliability analysis and correlation analysis. The study revealed that three independent variables contributed in influencing the workplace safety among the workers at Malaysian manufacturing sector. In addition, this study provides the management and workers with a few suggestions and opinions to reduce or eliminate the rate of workplace incidents.

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Section: Literature Review Employees' Involvementmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Factors Affecting The Workplace Safety in Manufacturing Industry

Said¹,

Yusoff²,

Ali³

et al. 2020

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“…Previous work in the field indicates that construction projects pose numerous potential risks to workers' lives, and bad injuries and deaths are common in the construction sector. Some of the various safety hazards in construction can be avoided by careful safety preparation (Irimie et al, 2015).…”

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Most common accidents and best safety strategies to reduce accidents in Northern Iraq construction projects

Ali¹

2020

IJAESA

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Worldwide, the construction sector is one of the riskiest sectors. Although reducing accidents is not easy, but it is possible at the same time. To design solutions to prevent accidents, it is essential to know the most common accidents and also to get the opinion of people with experience. Knowing these things will allow effective strategies to be designed based on the causes and the common accidents compared to the current safety system will result in an effective safety method to be undertaken. This paper identifies the most common accidents in Northern Iraq construction projects and identifies and examines practical ways to reduce accidents that ensure good safety performance. The study has been conducted by applying a questionnaire to collect data from stockholders about how effective ways have shown promising results in reducing accidents. On this basis, it suggests the best strategies to be undertaken. The results of the current study illustrated that the most common accidents in construction projects are falling from heights, struck-by accidents in highway construction and also found effective ways to reduce accidents in construction projects in general and highway projects as well.

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