Prevalence of occupational accident; and injuries and their associated factors in iron, steel and metal manufacturing industries in Addis Ababa

Berhan, Eshetie

doi:10.1080/23311916.2020.1723211

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“…We found that the risk of injury was higher in factories with more than three workers, suggesting that it might be difficult to maintain occupational safety in large factories as there is a lack of proper safety practices and monitoring by the local authority. A similar finding is reported from iron, steel and metal manufacturing industries in Ethiopia where occupational injuries were more common in medium or large size industries than the small size industries [22].…”

Section: High Annual Rate Of Injuries and Their Causes And Consequencessupporting

confidence: 83%

Occupational safety practice among metal workers in Bangladesh: a community-level study

Islam

Alam

Mamun

et al. 2022

J Occup Med Toxicol

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Background The overall information on occupational health and safety (OHS)-related knowledge and workplace practices are scarce in Bangladesh. This study aimed to (i) examine the prevalence of occupational injuries, (ii) explore the level of OHS-related knowledge and practice among workers and associated factors, and (iii) investigate the socioeconomic factors and OHS-related knowledge and practice scores as determinants of injury among metal workers at a community setting in Bangladesh. Methods This was a cross-sectional study conducted on all the functional metal workshops in a community of a town. The sociodemographic characteristics, history of injury and its consequences, and the state of knowledge and practice were measured using descriptive statistics. Univariate and multivariate analyses were used to measure the association between practice scores and sociodemographic factors and knowledge. Logistic regression was conducted to get the odds ratio of getting injured. Results A high annual rate (82.9%) of occupational injuries was documented in a one-year timeframe and the majority (81.1%) of injured workers lost more than three working days (median 20 days). Workers working in workshops with more than three workers were 3.3 times more likely to be injured [AOR = 3.33, 95% CI = 1.16, 9.58] compared to the workers in factories with one to three workers. Most of the workers had the basic knowledge related to OHS but the mean practice score was very low, 1.86 (SD 1.17). Higher education, lower monthly family income, and being an owner significantly led to higher practice scores. Conclusions The OHS-related knowledge was not properly translated into good workplace practices in small informal metal workshops because of the absence of implementation of OHS policies and monitoring by the relevant authority. Government should support the informal metal working sector to increase awareness and skills for the prevention and proper management of injuries and risks, and to ensure access to safety equipment and a safe environment.

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Section: High Annual Rate Of Injuries and Their Causes And Consequencessupporting

confidence: 83%

Occupational safety practice among metal workers in Bangladesh: a community-level study

Islam

Alam

Mamun

et al. 2022

J Occup Med Toxicol

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“…Günümüzde teknolojideki hızlı gelişmeler ve pazardaki üretim ve rekabetteki hızlı artış, iş sağlığı ve güvenliğine yönelik tehditleri daha da artırmıştır (Akay vd., 2021). İş kazası / yaralanma /can kaybına, çalışanların verimliliğinin azalmasına önemli ölçüde katkıda bulunduğundan ve daha sonra ekonomiyi büyük ölçüde etkilediğinden, iş güvenliği, küresel endüstrilerin en yüksek önceliği haline gelmiştir (Berhan, 2020). İş kazası, özellikle bireylerin yaşamları üzerinde ciddi olumsuz ekonomik ve sosyal etkileri olan, çalışanların verimliliğinin azalmasına önemli ölçüde neden olan, sanayileşmiş kesimlerde her çalışmanın ayrılmaz bir parçasıdır ve iş sonucunda veya iş sırasında meydana gelen ve ölümcül / ölümcül olmayan mesleki yaralanmalara yol açan bir olaydır.…”

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Evaluation of The Reflection of The Covid-19 Pandemic on Türkiye 2020 Occupational Accidents Statistics

ÇALIŞ

2022

Ohs Academy

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Makale Tarihçe siÖz-2020 yılında başlayan Covid-19 pandemisi nedeniyle dünya ülkeleri ile Türkiye hem sosyal hayat hem sağlık hizmetleri hem de ekonomik açıdan birçok güçlükle mücadele etmeye devam etmektedir. Virüsün hızlı yayılması ve bunun neticesinde ölümlerin artmasından dolayı 2020 yılında uzun süre tam kapanma ile bu süreç atlatılmaya çalışılmıştır. Kapanma ile çalışanlar uzun süre üretimden uzak kalmış ve dolayısı ile çalışılan gün sayılarında hatta çalışılan saatlerde azalma yaşanmıştır. Bu makalede 2020 yılında çalışanların üretimden uzak kalması ve çalışılan gün sayısının diğer yıllara göre azalmış olması sebebiyle iş kazaları sayısında da bir azalmanın olup olmadığının ortaya çıkarılması amaçlanmıştır. Bu amacın gerçekleşmesini sağlayacak 2018-2020 yıllarına ait veri seti Sosyal Güvenlik Kurumu İstatistik yıllıklarından temin edilmiştir. Özellikle iş kazası sıklık hızı ve iş kazası ağırlık hızı, standart iş kazası ve ölüm ile sürekli iş göremezlik kaza sıklık hızı oranları ile pandeminin iş kazaları üzerine etkisi ortaya çıkarılmıştır. Yapılan incelemeler sonucunda 2018 ve 2019 yılına kıyasla 2020 yılında pandemi nedeniyle iş kazaları sayılarında bir düşüş olduğu görülse de iş kazası sıklık ve ağırlık hızlarında bir düşüş olmadığı, diğer bir ifadeyle pandemi nedeniyle üretimin azalması ya da durmasının 1.000.000 çalışma saatine göre iş kazası geçiren kişi sayısında bir düşme meydana getirmediği tespit edilmiştir.

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“…To improve workplace safety and reduce accident rates, these issues must be considered for the sake of improving companies' operations [16]. According to Berhan [7], there are about 268 million work-related diseases and non-fatal workplace accidents worldwide every year. It is an important task to actively examine and evaluate workers' workplace safety issues, otherwise, work efficiency and the social economy will be affected.…”

Section: Review Of Manufacturing Risk Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fermatean fuzzy TOPSIS-based approach for occupational risk assessment in manufacturing

Gül

Yücesan

2021

Complex Intell. Syst.

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The importance of risk assessment in the context of occupational health and safety by manufacturing operators strengthens their hands in solving the problems they may encounter in business processes related to health and safety. One of the most important phases of conducting an exhaustive occupational risk assessment is to analyze potential hazards and associated risks quantitatively. Since manufacturing is one of the industries that require workers to be highly exposed to work, creating a safer environment to reduce occupational injuries is an important task. This study proposes a novel fuzzy risk assessment approach developed by integrating Fermatean fuzzy sets (FFSs) and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method for ranking potential hazards in manufacturing. FFSs are a new version of fuzzy set theory that covers the intuitionistic fuzzy sets and Pythagorean fuzzy sets. This version of the fuzzy set is crucial in the decision-making process to handle uncertain information more easily and reflect uncertainty better. A linguistic scale under Fermatean fuzzy documentation has also been developed for experts/decision makers to disclose their judgments easily. Occupational risk analysts can benefit from this approach since FFSs are used for the first time in occupational risk assessment, and the approach is presented in integration with TOPSIS. The proposed approach is applied in the aluminum plate-manufacturing process risk assessment. In the conclusion of the implementation, risks arising in the production are prioritized. In addition, this study made comparisons with other fuzzy methods to demonstrate the proposed approach’s difference and practicality. This study’s results can support practitioners and risk analysts in formulating the improvement measures to increase the safety of the work environment further.

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Prevalence of occupational accident; and injuries and their associated factors in iron, steel and metal manufacturing industries in Addis Ababa

Cited by 23 publications

References 34 publications

Occupational safety practice among metal workers in Bangladesh: a community-level study

Occupational safety practice among metal workers in Bangladesh: a community-level study

Evaluation of The Reflection of The Covid-19 Pandemic on Türkiye 2020 Occupational Accidents Statistics

Fermatean fuzzy TOPSIS-based approach for occupational risk assessment in manufacturing

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