Health and Safety in Today’s Manufacturing Industry

Geldart, Sybil

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-096532-1.00816-5

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“…Concern of exposure to chemical hazard types were, by far, the most investigated compared to physical hazards. Undoubtedly, the manufacturing sector involves the handling of substances with resultant exposures to a myriad of chemical hazards [ 25 , 26 ], some of which are currently not regulated. Comparison of the measured air concentrations of these chemical hazards, both personal and area measurements, generally showed a mixed view in relation to measured exposure levels in compliance with (and non-compliance with) the assigned health and safety standards.…”

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Occupational Health Hazards: Employer, Employee, and Labour Union Concerns

Rikhotso

Morodi

Masekameni

2021

IJERPH

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This review paper examines the extent of employer, worker, and labour union concerns to occupational health hazard exposure, as a function of previously reported and investigated complaints. Consequently, an online literature search was conducted, encompassing publicly available reports resulting from investigations, regulatory inspection, and enforcement activities conducted by relevant government structures from South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Of the three countries’ government structures, the United States’ exposure investigative activities conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health returned literature search results aligned to the study design, in the form of health hazard evaluation reports reposited on its online database. The main initiators of investigated exposure cases were employers, workers, and unions at 86% of the analysed health hazard evaluation reports conducted between 2000 and 2020. In the synthesised literature, concerns to exposure from chemical and physical hazards were substantiated by occupational hygiene measurement outcomes confirming excessive exposures above regulated health and safety standards in general. Recommendations to abate the confirmed excessive exposures were made in all cases, highlighting the scientific value of occupational hygiene measurements as a basis for exposure control, informing risk and hazard perception. Conclusively, all stakeholders at the workplace should have adequate risk perception to trigger abatement measures.

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Occupational Health Hazards: Employer, Employee, and Labour Union Concerns

Rikhotso

Morodi

Masekameni

2021

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“…Noise is listed as an inherent occupational hazard for processes operated within the manufacturing sector [19,20], emitted by an array of plant equipment [21]. The chemical manufacturing industry is important in the manufacturing sector as it is interconnected to downstream sectors such as transport, agriculture, power production, consumer goods and construction [1].…”

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“…Chemical manufacturing plants employ different occupational classes which have different noise exposure profiles according to the industry type. Plant equipment used in chemical manufacturing plants require manual operation by these employees, whom by close proximity to these equipments are exposed to the emitted high noise levels [19].…”

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Noise Sources and Control, and Exposure Groups in Chemical Manufacturing Plants

Rikhotso,

Harmse,

Engelbrecht

2019

Applied Sciences

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The chemical manufacturing industry employs sophisticated mechanical equipment to process feedstock such as natural gas by transforming it to usable raw material in downstream sectors. Workers employed at these facilities are exposed to inherent occupational health hazards, including occupational noise. An online and grey literature search on ScienceDirect, Oxford Journals online, PubMed, Medline, Jstor and regulatory bodies using specific keywords on noise emission sources in the manufacturing sector was conducted. This review focuses on noise sources and their control in chemical manufacturing plants along with the receptors of the emitted noise, providing hearing conservation programme stakeholders valuable information for better programme management. Literature confirms that chemical manufacturing plants operate noise emitting equipment which exposes job categories such as machine operators, process operators and maintenance personnel amongst others. Prominent noise sources in chemicals manufacturing industries include compressors, pumps, motors, fans, turbines, vents, steam leaks and control valves. Specific industries within the chemical manufacturing sector emit noise levels ranging between 85–115 dBA (A-weighted sound pressure level), which exceed the noise rating limit of 85 dBA used in South Africa and United Kingdom, as well as the 90 dBA permissible exposure level used in the United States, levels above which workplace control is required. Engineering noise control solutions for plant equipment and machinery operated in chemical manufacturing plants are available on the market for implementation.

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“…Çünkü çalışanların örgüt hakkındaki bireysel değil ortak algılarını ve liderlerinin güvenlik konusundaki yaklaşımlarını ölçmektedir. Zira güvenlik iklimi bir departmandan, çalışma grubundan veya tüm organizasyondan bireysel görüşlerin toplanmasıyla ve daha sonra o birimin emniyet ortamını temsil eden bu görüşlerin aritmetik ortalamasıyla değerlendirilmektedir (Geldart, 2014).…”

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Havacılık Sektöründe Güvenlik İklimi Algısı İle Bilgi Teknolojileri Verimliliği Etkileşimi: Uçak Bakım Teknisyenleri Üzerinde Bir Araştırma (The Association of Safety Climate Perception and Information Technologies Productivity in Aviation: A Research on Airplane Maintenance Technicians)

Kalkın¹,

Türen²,

Gökmen³

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Bu araştırma işgörenlerin algıladıkları güvenlik iklimi ile bilgi teknolojileri verimliliği arasındaki ilişkiyi tespit etmek amacıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Yöntem-Türkiye genelinde çeşitli firmalarda görev yapan uçak bakım teknisyenlerinden tesadüfi örneklem yolu ile elektronik ortamda veriler toplanmış, uygun doldurulmuş olan 228 anket formu analizlere dâhil edilmiştir. Yapısal geçerliliği için örnekleme Doğrulayıcı ve Açımlayıcı Faktör Analizleri uygulanmıştır. Ardından hipotez testi için çoklu doğrusal regresyon analizi yapılmıştır. Bulgular-Analiz sonuçları; ölçeklerin yapısal geçerliliğinin uygun olduğunu ve uçak bakım teknisyenlerinin algıladıkları güvenlik iklimi düzeyinin (iki boyutu ile birlikte) bilgi teknolojileri verimliliğini anlamlı ve olumlu yönde etkilediğini desteklemektedir. Tartışma-Sonuçlar; iş sağlığı ve güvenliğinin sağlanması için çok önemli görülen, destek ve yatırımı hak ettiği düşünülen bir kavram olan çalışanların örgüte ilişkin pozitif güvenlik iklimi algılarının onların bilgi teknolojileri verimliliğini de olumlu yönde etkilediğini göstermektedir. Çünkü bilgi teknolojilerinin örgüt hedefleriyle uyumlu şekilde kullanılabilmesi çalışanların projenin başlangıcından itibaren ve tüm aşamalarına katkısına ve sahiplenmesine bağlıdır. Doğaldır ki işgörenlere atfedilen kıymet örgüte yönelik tutum ve davranışlarını olumlu yönde etkilemektedir. Bu yüzden, ortaya koyulan bu ilişkinin özel ve kamu sektöründeki örgüt yönetimlerince dikkate alınmasının uygun olacağı düşünülmektedir.

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Health and Safety in Today’s Manufacturing Industry

Cited by 10 publications

References 74 publications

Occupational Health Hazards: Employer, Employee, and Labour Union Concerns

Occupational Health Hazards: Employer, Employee, and Labour Union Concerns

Noise Sources and Control, and Exposure Groups in Chemical Manufacturing Plants

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