Developing a Safety and Health Training Model for Petrochemical Workers

Abstract

The production processes of the petrochemical industry expose workers to high potential hazards. Our previous study showed that hazard recognition was closely related to worker safety and health training activities. The purpose of this study was to establish and validate a safety and health training model. It is expected that the training model will help workers to recognize hazards, thereby lowering their operating risks. The training model, which included a complete training course and follow-up scoring using a questionnaire, was applied to three groups of subjects for comparison. Group A had joined our study previously and took the training course again at this time. Group B had also joined our previous study but did not take this training course. Group C was new to our study and took this training course for the first time. Groups A and C (who took the training course) had higher cognition and attitude scores than group B (who did not take the training course). The training course was a significant factor that positively influenced both cognition and attitude scores among managers and workers. The training course was more significant for managers while the duration of education was more significant for workers.

Safe Behaviour in The Petrochemical Industry: Evaluating The Consistency Between Conceptual Frameworks and Factors Reported by Iranian Workers

“…The ndings of included studies also focused on the importance of management culture and organisational impact on workers' safety. These ndings highlight that workers' cognition and attitude, safety culture and prioritising safety can in uence workers to adopt positive behavioural intentions towards safety at workplace [6,14,42,49,50,61,63,64]. These ndings also support the fourth them of our qualitative ndings: broader organisational factors.…”

“…These results support our qualitative ndings related to the unsafe workplace conditions theme. According to a review of 31 studies, adequate and appropriate job training, workers' perception of risk, and their knowledge of health and safety issues were negatively correlated with occupational accident rates [52,55,61]. Workers' skills and perceptions of their own behaviour plays a signi cant role to produce better safety outcomes [27,30,42,54,62].…”

Assessment of Semi-Quantitative Health Risks of Exposure to Harmful Chemical Agents in the Context of Carcinogenesis in the Latex Glove Manufacturing Industry

“…In a study that Kocher et al carried out in 2002 noted that the health risk assessment is essential that all risk parameters were identified and assessed (Kocher and Greim, 2002 (Cozzani, Tugnoli et al, 2007). Inherent safety design, the idea is to improve process safety performance through eliminating or reducing (internal strategy) rather than control or manage (external strategy) risks (Hassim, Hurme et al, 2013), on the other hand, because of the degree of exposure to the average of the high level of risk, was 3.5, control strategies can also be used for inherent safety complementary strategies, in this regard, Hong et al considers educational programs as one of the most effective methods used to reduce the health risks in the industry because it can have a positive effect on the motivation and belief of people in the implementation and deployment of control programs (Hong, Lin et al, 2004). In this study, the aim of the proposals based on the principles of inherent safety that the identity of the identified and available risks in industry were removed, thus, the researchers were suggested to do assessment and prioritize risks of industry to modify with inherent safety design approach, especially in the establishment step and more research done in this area.…”

Factors associated with unsafe work behaviours in an Iranian petrochemical company: Perspectives of workers, supervisors, and safety managers

“…Some results are consistent with the ndings of previous studies [9,[38][39][40], including the challenges of using PPE, the need for adequate and up-to-date safety training, high workloads contributing to safety procedures not being implemented and managed in an effective manner that facilitated their use in industrial settings. However, there has been limited safety research in the petrochemical industry aimed at identifying factors discouraging safe work behaviour, such as the studies by Cheng and colleagues [9], Xue and colleagues [41], Min and colleagues [42], Hong and colleagues [43].…”