Safeguarding of lathes and occupational accidents

Varonen, Unto

doi:10.1016/0925-7535(94)00059-x

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“…• Investigation of accidents (Adams, Barlow, & Hiddlestone, 1981;Carter & Menckel, 1987; • Internal safety inspections and safety analyses (Chew, 1988;Hämäläinen, 1994;Smith, Cohen, Cohen, & Cleveland, 1978) • Analysis of production disruptions (Hakala, 1989;Saari, 1977;Tallberg, Lepistö, Mattila, & Vuori, 1992;Occupational deaths 1985Occupational deaths -1993Occupational deaths , 1995 • Design (Hakala, 1989;Saarela, Salminen, Räsänen, & Saari, 1992;Saari, 1977) • Safety rules and signs (Chew, 1988;Laner & Sell, 1960;Saarela, Aaltonen, Seppälä, Saari, & Salminen, 1986;Simonds & Shafai-Sahrai, 1977) • Safety indoctrination and safety training (Luskin, Somers, Wooding, & Levenstein, 1992;Michaels, Zoloth, Bernstein, Kass, & Schrier, 1992;Robins, Hugentobler, Kaminski, & Klitzman, 1990;Robins & Klitzman, 1988) • Supervision (Chew, 1988;Mattila, Hyttinen, & Rantanen, 1994;Petersen, 1984) • Safety of the work environment (Näsänen & Saari, 1986;Springfeldt, 1993;Suokas, 1993;Varonen, 1995Varonen, , 1997 When certain types of safety campaigns have been implemented, accident rates have often decreased clearly (Komaki, Heinzmann, & Lawson, 1980;Krause, Hidley, & Lareau, 1984;Näsänen & Saari, 1986). In such campaigns, safe working methods have been defined and the employees have been instructed in their use.…”

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Effects of the work environment and safety activities on occupational accidents in eight wood‐processing companies

Varonen¹,

Mattila²

2001

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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The study was conducted at 16 wood-processing companies in southern Finland. The companies involved were selected according to the following criteria: (a) 8 companies were to have an accident rate that was clearly below the average rate for the wood-processing industry in the period [1985][1986][1987][1988][1989], and 8 companies a rate clearly higher than the average; and (b) the companies were to form pairs engaged in the same type of activity and exhibiting different rates.Companies were divided into 2 groups. Two sawmills, 1 parquet, and 1 plywood factory with a low accident rate and 4 similar factories with a high rate were selected as "experiment companies" and received advice aimed at improving their work environment and safety activities. Eight similar companies were selected as a control group and received no advice. This study attempted to ascertain the effects of such advice on the work environment, safety activities, and occupational accidents. In addition, differences in the safety of the work environment, in safety activities, and in occupational accidents were studied in companies with a low accident rate as compared with the situation in companies with a high rate.Work environment and safety activities showed a statistically significant correlation with accident rate. The better the situation, the lower the accident rate. In the companies with a low accident rate, the work environment and safety activities were also better than in the companies with a high rate.In the period 1989-1994, the drop in the accident rate at the experiment companies was greater-to a statistically significant extent-than it was in the control group or in the wood-processing industry as a whole. In cases where advice was given to the experiment companies with the aim of preventing particular occupational accidents, the rate of such accidents declined; there was no such trend in the control companies. By contrast, trends for other types of accidents were similar in the experiment and control companies. Changes in the accident rates of the experiment or control companies could not be explained by economic cycles or by changes either in the employees' work experience or in the duration of absences.It is highly probable that the positive trend with regard to occupational accidents in the experiment companies was related to improvement in the work environment and safety activities and that this in turn was a result of the advice given to these companies in 1990.

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Effects of the work environment and safety activities on occupational accidents in eight wood‐processing companies

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Mattila²

2001

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“…As it is reported by Suokas (1983), if power presses had been equipped with two-handed controls or similar safety devices, the number of injuries to the hands would have decreased drastically. Varonen (1995) concluded that safeguarding would reduce the number of accidents involving lathes. The importance of employee involvement in safety matters is identified by Shannon et al (1997) as related to lower injury rates.…”

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Workplace and organizational accident causation factors in the manufacturing industry

Katsakiori

Kavvathas

Athanassiou

et al. 2009

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Labor inspectors investigate accidents to identify possible accident causes, initiate prosecution, and plan future accident prevention. The Method of Investigation for Labor Inspectors (MILI) was designed to help them to identify workplace and organizational factors in addition to immediate factors and legal breaches. The present study analyzes the impact of workplace (work design and provision of unsafe equipment) and organizational factors (training and employee involvement) on accident causation and validates MILI on real accident cases. Accident data from the manufacturing sector are analyzed with LISREL structural equation modeling. Results confirm the relationship between work design and training as well as between provision of unsafe equipment and employee involvement. The present study provides evidence that MILI is a structured accident investigation method allowing multiple accident causation factors to be revealed and that it could help all interested parts (not only labor inspectors, but companies as well) to thoroughly investigate occupational accidents. C 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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