Incorporating Workplace Injury to Measure the Safety Performance of Industrial Sectors in Taiwan

Yeh, Li-Ting

doi:10.3390/su9122241

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“…Second, this study addressed the sustainability issue of service employees in the workplace. This study has implications for how to design the configurations of job demands, and how to handle service employees with low levels of their energy resources [34,35].…”

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Surface Acting and Job-Related Affective Wellbeing: Preventing Resource Loss Spiral and Resource Loss Cycle for Sustainable Workplaces

2018

Sustainability

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This study empirically examines the synergistic negative effect of two kinds of job demand on job-related affective wellbeing (JAW) and the accelerating effects of cynicism in the negative relationships between job demands and JAW using a sample of 299 employees in the Chinese banking industry. Job demands include quantitative role overload and surface acting to represent the quantitative and qualitative aspects of job demands. Cynicism is introduced as a state where one's energy resource is lost. The results of this study show that surface acting has a negative relationship with JAW, but quantitative role overload has no relationship with JAW. High levels of quantitative role overload exacerbate the negative relationship between surface acting and JAW. Cynicism also exacerbates the negative relationship between surface acting and JAW but does not have any moderating effect in the relationship between quantitative role overload and JAW. These results are consistent with the relationships predicted by resource loss spiral and resource loss cycle. The resource loss spiral means that resource loss, caused by handling with a quantitative role overload, lessens the employee's ability to cope with surface acting. The resource loss cycle represents a vicious circle that amplifies the resource loss caused by surface acting. Surface acting reduces the level of one's resources. Furthermore, surface acting reduces JAW and resources more strongly when an individual has low levels of previous energy resources than it reduces JAW and resources when he or she has high levels of previous energy resources.

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Surface Acting and Job-Related Affective Wellbeing: Preventing Resource Loss Spiral and Resource Loss Cycle for Sustainable Workplaces

2018

Sustainability

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“…The amounts of benefits paid out for the three severity levels of occupational injury (y u ) plus occupational disease prevention benefits (x 1 ) were collected from official statistics provided by the Taiwan Ministry of Labor (http://statdb.mol.gov.tw/statis/), and the other variables were obtained from the Statistics Committee of the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan of Taiwan (http://ebas1.ebas.gov.tw). These official records have been extensively adopted in academic research (e.g., in [2,7,11]).…”

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“…Performance measurements constitute an important task in strategic planning, and they are performed to better understand the various resource inputs and economic outputs of a decision-making unit (DMU), such as an organization or a firm, and to plan an improvement strategy [8,9]. Among these measures, data envelopment analysis (DEA), which is a mathematical programming approach, has been widely used to measure the relative performances of DMUs, such as industrial sectors (e.g., in [2,10,11]) or departments (e.g., in [12]). In general, DEA automatically assigns weights to each input and/or output, which is one of its main advantages because the subjectivity of the performance assessment is reduced.…”

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“…A non-parametric statistical approach allows random variations in input-output data [15]. Therefore, DEA has been widely used to estimate the relative performance related to occupational injuries [2,11,16,17]. Previous studies adopted the number or rate of occupational accidents as undesirable outputs, and these undesirable outputs were assigned equal weights regardless of the relative importance of occupational accidents in different industries.…”

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Using Weighted Data Envelopment Analysis to Measure Occupational Safety and Healthy Economic Performance of Taiwan’s Industrial Sectors

Yeh

2020

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The socioeconomic costs of occupational accidents represent an important factor in the safety and healthy development of a country’s economy. Insurance payments (which cover workplace incidents, such as wounds or illness, disability and fatality) can be considered a proxy for the socioeconomic cost of occupational accidents. Occupational accidents in different industries cause important variations in these three socioeconomic costs—for example, in their frequency and severity. One of the most commonly used mathematical programming approaches that analyze the performance of inputs, economic outputs and occupational accidents is data envelopment analysis (DEA), which has also been used in recent years to estimate the relative performance related to occupational injuries. This study measures the safety and healthy economic performance of Taiwan’s 17 industrial sectors by incorporating the varying importance of the three socioeconomic costs of occupational accidents into a weighted DEA Model. The empirical results demonstrate that integrating the varying importance of the three socioeconomic costs of occupational accidents in the evaluation of safety and healthy economic performance is very important. To improve the occupational safety and healthy economic performance of Taiwan’s main industrial sectors, efforts should focus on reducing fatalities, which are very costly. These findings could help Taiwan’s policy makers effectively improve their safety and healthy economic performance, based on the specific context of each industry, especially the mining and quarrying industry.

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“…A body of literature has emerged in the field of occupational injuries and accidents, particularly in response to the measures of safety at workplace (Carpenter, Knepper, Erickson, & Ross, 2012; Chang, Yang, & Lauricella, 2019; Dutra, Cimiotti, & de Brito Guirardelloe, 2018; Read, 2014; Tan, Wang, Chen, & Ren, 2012; Taufek, Zulkifle, & Kadir, 2016; Yeh, 2017). Inadequate investment (Taufek et al., 2016), lack of interpersonal relations (Rao & Rao, 2005; Read & Laschinger, 2015), absence of training (Kasatpibal et al., 2016) and insufficient managerial support (Kapp, 2012) were considered as triggers of hazardous working conditions in different industries (Bagheri Hosseinabadi et al., 2019).…”

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Prevention of occupational injuries and accidents: A social capital perspective

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Prior research has consistently established the pragmatic nature of literature regarding occupational injuries and accidental happenings faced by nursing professionals. However, current realities require a subjective approach to identify preventative measures that could influence occupational health and safety in healthcare sectors. A qualitative design followed a descriptive approach to assess unbiased opinions towards occupational obstructions that lead to accidental happenings. This study used the social capital framework in particular as a support resource to eliminate its detrimental effects on nurse's capacity to serve their patients. The findings extended the fundamental understanding of social capital from social ties to workplace and personal ties as potential mechanisms of support. Healthcare organizations need to redefine their control policies to provide the ultimate support to their care agents. A social capital model offers nursing practitioners and nursing managers an approach for building evidence-based policies with implications for nurse's safety, education and training.

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Incorporating Workplace Injury to Measure the Safety Performance of Industrial Sectors in Taiwan

Cited by 8 publications

References 76 publications

Surface Acting and Job-Related Affective Wellbeing: Preventing Resource Loss Spiral and Resource Loss Cycle for Sustainable Workplaces

Surface Acting and Job-Related Affective Wellbeing: Preventing Resource Loss Spiral and Resource Loss Cycle for Sustainable Workplaces

Using Weighted Data Envelopment Analysis to Measure Occupational Safety and Healthy Economic Performance of Taiwan’s Industrial Sectors

Prevention of occupational injuries and accidents: A social capital perspective

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