Top Research Papers on Occupational Health and Safety

The requirement of sustained improvement is put forward, which provide the guidance for the organizations to work out the (OHS) target.

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Occupational Safety and Health (K3) is essential in machining engineering lessons at vocational schools because students often carry out practices involving many complex and sharp objects. This research aims to analyze occupational safety and health implementation in machining practical learning. This research uses an ex-post facto quantitative approach—research subjects in class XI machining engineering in four vocational schools with a sample of 172 people. Data collection uses surveys, observations, interviews, questionnaires, and documentation. The data analysis technique in this research ...

Nowadays, sustainability is one of the most important goals of also the construction sector, as it is in most of the other sectors. However, sustainability in the construction sector is dealt mostly with its environmental and economic dimensions and its social dimension remains in the background. This situation causes the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), which is perhaps the most important issue within the scope of social sustainability, to be addressed on its own, and its relationship with sustainability to be not introduced clearly. In this study, firstly, the relationship between socia...

Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) in construction is all about protecting people from injury at work or from becoming ill through appropriate precautions. A safe, healthy and productive workforce is needed to achieve the objective of national development and economic growth since construction industry is a stimulator for national economy. However, each sector of the industry has its distinct hazards and risks determined by the peculiarities of its labour process. This paper begins by presenting a brief background to the construction industry and then further into the concept of hazard and r...

Social marketing has been contributing historically for a better application of public policy, health and safety, environment, education and human rights. Specifically, four major areas that social marketing efforts have focused over the years are health promotion,injurprevention,environmental protection, and community mobilization. Social marketing, at an industrial organization, emphasizes exchange of ideas between the target audience (i.e. the employees) and the marketer (i.e. the employer). This exchange requires that the employees be persuaded to give up the unsafe behaviors that they are...

Occupational diseases and accidents suffered by employees, cause many costs for the companies in direct and indirect ways and companies spend their limited resources and power to cover these arising costs.

An overview of CRA literature is provided as well as preliminary guidance on when to consider a CRA approach in occupational settings and how to establish reasonable boundaries and important implications for workplace CRA research and practice are highlighted.

The purpose of this research is to build Occupational Health and Safety learning media based on Augmented Reality, which will be made mobile based with android devices and the method of software development using the waterfall method.

Leadership training both at managerial and workmen level will help percolate the safety procedures in any industry and trained safety ambassadors are the change agents to improve the OH&S culture and to implement safety programmes.

This study identifies effective strategies to synergize management and OHS, including the use of modern technology and the development of a comprehensive safety culture, which provides valuable insights in improving occupational safety, operational efficiency, and business sustainability in the digital era.

Fishermen are one of the jobs that have high risk and danger. Data from The National Transportation Safety Committee shows the number of ship accidents in Indonesia from 2013 to 2021 was 124, including sinking, collision, overturning, burning, and running aground. This paper is conducted to analyze the accident occur in Jayanti Fishing Port and formulate mitigation strategies to reduce fishermen's work accidents at Jayanti Fishing Port. The research uses a purposive sampling method for fishermen, boat owners, and fishing port officers analyzed using content analysis. The result indicated that ...

Since the ILO preamble in 1919, occupational safety and health have been key to ensuring safe workplaces and a strong preventive safety culture worldwide. Oman, an ILO member since 1994, has one of the best healthcare systems, offering free primary care for citizens and subsidized care for expatriates. As of 2023, Oman has 74 hospitals, 897 medical centers, and 6,409 medical professionals, with a hospital bed capacity of 14.9 per 10,000 people (National Centre for Statistics and Information). In 2014, Oman launched Health Vision 2050, a long-term strategy to build an efficient, equitable healt...

This study examines the obligations of employers under Sri Lanka's Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) laws and their implications for Human Resource Management (HRM). As the legal framework surrounding OHS evolves, it becomes imperative for organizations to ensure compliance while fostering a culture of safety and employee well-being. The article outlines key employer responsibilities mandated by the Factories Ordinance and related legislation, including the provision of a safe work environment, risk management, employee training, and incident reporting. It further analyzes the strategic rol...

Construction industry refers to one of the industries dealing with high accident rate. Besides its outdoor workplace involving many workers who usually work manually, the workers’ work culture and less awareness of occupational health and safety (OHS) are attributed to the high accident rate. This study explores some construction workers who are involved in some construction projects in big cities such as Bandung and Jakarta. The questionnaire-given to the construction workers focusing on stone construction, wood construction, and finishing session-reveals that the construction workers knowled...

In the process of working on a construction project, there is no such thing as a work accident, therefore it is necessary to take preventive measures to minimize the risk of Occupational Health and Safety (K3).

The implementation of Occupational Health and Safety or OHS (K3) holds a very important role in maintaining the reputation and sustainability of a company. One of the essential factors to implement OHS is good communication thus all the employees understand and support the practice of it in the company. This study aims to determine the most strategic factors to consider in building OHS communication in the company, so that all employees support and participate. The research was conducted at PT XYZ engaging in shipbuilding. Data collection was carried out through expert discussions and field vi...

Optimal Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) implementation to achieve zero accident becomes the demand for construction service providers in realizing a qualified infrastructure, including for construction industry in Bali and Indonesia as general. This study aims to investigate the barriers of OHS implementation faced by contractors in Bali, and to formulate the efforts to improve the implementation. Collected data from a questionnaire survey were analysed using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to determine the priority level of the identified barriers. The results suggested that the barrier...

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The purpose of this study is to analyse the impact of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) training and compensation on the employees’ perfomance in the Indonesian state railroad company. Train is an alternative transportation that has many advantages such as low pollution, free traffic, bulk, cheaper costs, and also relatively faster. The highest frequency of train accidents in Indonesia is caused by human error. Therefore, it is important to provide OHS training for employees and provide appropriate compensation, in order to improve employee performance. The data were analysed by using multi...

A systematic work environment management system (SWEM) and establishes the employer as responsible for this and in 2016, 44 % of Swedish Work Environment Authorities’ s ...

The study is about history of health and safety legislation in Romania, about European tools, empowerment procedures, organisations and association in the field. It`s an overview about European tools to allow people free movements all around European Union (EU). The study presents tools which identifies the fundamental skills, the most important abilities and knowledge that people would need to be recognised, in order to allow free movements all around European employment market. The study is about possibilities to be voluntary recognised as a health and safety professionals across EU and why ...

The combination of FS&PS is more effective in increasing knowledge, while attitude and practice are more effective if involving FS, and the biggest influence of changes in OHS practice was in the FS group.

Improving the performance of employees in the company is marked by the work results and work achievements achieved. Improving the performance of employees in the company will be achieved if the company pays attention to Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), provides motivation to employees in an effort to develop all abilities and skills in the form of education, training, providing incentives, using complete and modern workshop facilities, to creating a conducive work environment. The above will be able to spur the enthusiasm of the employees so that the achievement of good performance in acc...

In the industrial world, it is necessary to understand risk management to run a company well. Likewise, with the hospitality industry because there are many people in it. For some people, OHS is something other than essential and results in many workplace accidents. Research method used Relevant data is obtained with a qualitative descriptive method and assisted by documentation from many sources like internet, papers and case study. The goal of this research is to show the data of casualties and make the company realized the important of OHS management to prevent any casualties that may occur...

There is a need for synergy among the government, hospitals, healthcare workers, and relevant parties to ensure the implementation of OHS protection for medical personnel dealing with COVID-19 and the potential new mutated viruses emerging in Indonesia.

This paper aims to identify how BIM could positively impact Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) during construction and reveals a high added value of using BIM for safety rule checking and design validation and safety education, training, and communication.

This research concludes that the chemical laboratory's occupational safety and health guidebook as a guiding supplement for chemistry practicum is valid to be implemented from the aspect of content, language, media, and readability and is very practical in its use.

This study examines safety management and current practices to see if there is a better way than current approaches and how safety can be improved further from an overall strategic approach and positively supported the research question that knowledge management can be used to improve safety performance.

Of the 32 noise assessments collected, three had projected TWAs that exceeded the occupational exposure limit of 85 dBA and nearly 75% of the projected TWA measurements were equal or greater than the Action Level of 80 dBA.

The results of the research study found that the risk level in the laboratory of OHS (Occupational Health and Safety) Department of Occupational health and Safety Universitas Airlangga was 60% (low).

Better training and provision of standard tools or guideline to assist OHDs in making occupational disease diagnoses, increasing OHS awareness among the industries, and enacting OHS as part of the laws and regulations with adequate enforcement are suggested.

With the continued development of technologies and an increasing understanding of how these devices interact with the human body, exoskeletons will likely remain valuable for improving working conditions and safety in various work environments.

Safety education and training for employees is important to ensure the safety of construction and improve the safety awareness of employees. It is difficult to meet the needs of the new situation of safety production with traditional safety education and training consequences of construction enterprises. To address this deficiency, this research analyzed the formation mechanism of safety behavior of personnel at different levels in construction enterprises from the perspective of behaviorist psychology and studied their different needs for safety training, designing training programs for simpl...

Despite the perception of the restrictive impact on performance, occupational health and safety (OHS) practices offer effective mechanisms of improvement of performance. Additionally, the costs relate to OHS practices had been increase in Brazil, almost get 15% of total cost in manufacturing area. Based on literature review, this article exposes the studies about OHS practices, during the period of 2010 to 2015. The main objective is to show what the main studies related to OHS practices are. What are the relationships of OHS variables with the operating area? How those can improve the perform...

In this activity, students will learn about occupational health and safety legislation at a federal and State or Territory level.

This study aims to identify and explain the effect of occupational health and safety on motivation and employees performance either simultaneously or partially. Explanatory research is a type of research that is in use, collecting data using questionnaire distributed to all employees of PT. PLN Persero APJ Malang. Number of samples are 70 respondents and technique used in sampling is saturated. Descriptive analysis and path analysis is used as the data analysis. The results showed that employee safety does no have a positive influence the employees performance but provide indirect positive eff...

Companies face two challenges in the field of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS). They must first ensure that they meet the legal obligations that apply to them. This requires that they first clearly identify what these obligations are (with the help of management compliance tools of varying degrees of complexity). However, at the same time, employers and other stakeholders in the prevention of occupational risk (OHS professionals, human resources managers, etc.) must take precautions against the potential risk of both civil and criminal legal action. In order to limit these risks, it is ess...

The construction industry has long been considered to have unacceptably high injury and fatality rates. Previous research has shown that small construction companies sustain higher injury rates than large companies. However, despite the industry being dominated by a very large number of such small companies, little is known of their occupational health and safety (OHS) needs, practices and constraints. This paper takes a first step in aiming to identify the principal barriers that affect good OHS performance of small construction companies so that effective OHS practices can be developed to im...

The salient findings of the study are presented and elucidate that the DoL OH&S Inspectorate is not effective in terms ofOH&S relative to the construction industry in South Africa.

A study investigating the nature and extent of small manufacturing business owners' knowledge of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) issues found owners were found to have minimal OHS training and practical OHS expertise.

Rapid changes to the nature of work have challenged the capacity of existing occupational safety and health (OSH) systems to ensure safe and productive workplaces. An effective response will require an expanded focus that includes new tools for anticipating and preparing for an uncertain future. Researchers at the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have adopted the practice of strategic foresight to structure inquiry into how the future will impact OSH. Rooted in futures studies and strategic management, foresight creates well-researched and informed future scen...

The curricula at universities were also positively affected by the "Occupational Health and Safety", which gained importance in recent years within the scope of the ILO directives that came into force, and courses related to the field were added to the curriculum. The aim of this study; To measure and analyze the level of knowledge and awareness of students about Occupational Health and Safety (OHS). In this context, the sample of the research is in Turkey; Istanbul Gelisim University, which is a foundation university, and Gaziantep University, which is a state university, consist of the Occup...

Foundry Industry is a company engaged in the casting of household appliances and manufacture of precision products made from aluminum. So it is possible in every activity there is a potential danger. The objectives of this study were to identify potential hazards and assess safety and health risks and to evaluate risk control techniques. This research was conducted on 4 divisions ie warehouse division, casting division, technician division and finishing division. Thus, it can reduce the number of work accident. This research refers to AZ / NZS 4360: 2004 standard using descriptive study method...

The regulation of OSH procedures must be communicated, promoted to workers, and supervision of workers can be increased as a form of good commitment and given support by providing rewards for workers who have implemented safe behavior properly and providing punishment for Workers who conduct unsafe behavior.

This research contributes to bridging the gap in links between computer vision technology and concepts of workplace safety by showcasing the effectiveness of YOLOv8 in addressing occupational safety concerns, particularly in the construction industry.

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is devoted to the "Frontiers in Occupational Health and Safety Management".

The purpose of this article is to describe the specific OSH challenges women as miners face and to discuss how the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's (NIOSH) Mining Program is situated to address these challenges through its Mining Program Strategic Plan.

Purpose The manufacturing industry is a well-known source of interventions adapted to solve problems in the construction industry. The use of Training-Within-Industry (TWI) is one such intervention adopted in the construction industry to solve the construction problem relating to occupational health and safety (OHS). The objectives of TWI are to help the industry to transfer knowledge and skills from management to the employees. Therefore, the purpose of this paper was to investigate whether TWI can reduce OHS problems by promoting “learning by doing” on construction sites. Design/methodolo...

Globally, around 5,500 workers die daily from accidents or diseases at work with one-quarter of construction workers more probable than other workers. The rate of accidents leading to fatalities on Nigeria’s construction sites is becoming worrisome. Human factor such as workers’ non-compliance, low commitment from top management, negligence, human failures have largely been blamed. Safety is not simply common sense, therefore, construction workers and students need to be trained in order to have a sustainable construction industry. The aim of this study is to assess a safety cultured ind...