Prevention of Industrial Accidents: Measures ...

Prevention of Industrial Accidents: Measures and Challenges

Author Name : S. Saisree Reddy

ABSTRACT

Safety issues have always a major problem and concern in any organizational or industry in the world (Clarke, 2006). Organizational nature of industrial accidents and empirical work has focus on the identification of workers attitudes, work environment, management concern for safety and conflict between productions with safety that influence accidents causation at workplace. The purpose of this study is to examine whether workers attitudes, work environment, management concern for safety and conflict between production and safety have a relationship to the number of accidents at workplace. A set of questionnaires were distributed for data gathering to 350 employees at different level of hierarchy that work at hazardous workplace in different department of Boc India Ltd (Balnagar, Hyderabad, Telangana). The results indicate that safety measures undertaken by industry has a significant relationship with dependent variable due to its positive correlations, the next output is Communication about safety issues with management does not have significant relationship with dependent variable due to negative correlations value. There are the suggestions for Boc India Ltd to control or reduce the number of accidents at workplace which are positive reinforcement, provide workers with safety training or safety educations and proper personal protection equipment (PPE). Keywords: Workers Attitudes, Work Environment, Management Concern for Safety, Conflict between Production and Safety, Accidents at Workplace.