Paper
Case Study Evaluation of Accident Risk Factors for Sustainable Safety Programme
- Authors:
- K. A. Adebiyi; H. A. Ajimotokan; I. K. Adegun; L. A. Oloyede
- Abstract
- Modern nations show great concern for safety management at workplace for obvious reasons. It’s critical to curb the appalling toll of occupational injuries that continues to plague humankind, and mitigate the occurrence of occupational injuries and work-related illnesses as they are daily facts in most industries particularly in manufacturing related enterprises. These impart a substantial life and causing economic losses in the most technologically advanced nations as well as in many emerging world. This study presents manufacturing accident investigation in a suitable way to plan and manage safety programme in a manufacturing settings. An accident investigation register was administered for a period of 12 months to capture the needed data and these were analysed employing accident investigation procedure. 328 injuries were investigated among the 293 workers for this study duration. The anatomical sites of injury were the hands and the wrists with 169 (52%) instances, while the feet and the ankles, legs and other sites accounted for 81 (25%), 62 (19%) and 16 (5%) of these injuries respectively. The most effective solution for eliminating complex multiple risks were carefully investigated and analyzed based on the existing program. The probable best solution to ultimately benefit both the worker and the employer was then established. It was found that the accidents investigated were predictable due to the synergistic effects associated with coupling repetitive production and hand intensive stress, age and work experience.
- Keywords
- Manufacturing Accident Investigation; Risk Factors; Safety Programme; Manufacturing Settings; Repetitive Production
- StartPage
- 26
- EndPage
- 30
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