Promoting a culture of health and safety at work: safety–a permanent priority

Abstract

The human consequences of occupational accidents in Algeria are multiples of their action on the profitability and the added value, knowing that the company is the employee's home and the damage of each may affect the whole. Moreover, understanding and applying concepts of risk management in their Anglo-Saxon sense is completely absent in our companies. Preventive measures are still insufficient, especially for the protection of workers who are often left on their own. This results in an uneven maturity of companies, different strategies considered and dissimilar organizational choices. Of the more than 50,000 accidents/year that have been recorded in Algerian companies, between 750 and 800 of those accidents have caused deaths. The number of days lost that are automatically compensated is 14 10 5

The use of working environment factors as criteria in assessing the capacity to carry out processes

“…The working environment parameters defined for a workstation may be used as indicators in evaluating process performance conditions and as criteria for verifying workers' ability to operate and perform work in a specific working environment [1,13]. The working environment may be described in terms of the level of negative and positive impacts on the worker.…”

“…where no such factors exist as would potentially disrupt the proper operation of processes, the broadly-defined capacity to perform occupational tasks in a proper manner is greatly increased. Such a capacity produces the following key benefits at enterprise level [1,7,[13][14][15][16]:…”

“…Another prerequisite for effectiveness is to abandon the policy of limiting controls to external procedures. Every employee should care for a specified section of their process thereby contributing to increases in work efficiency and ensuring that the tasks at hand are performed professionally [12,13].…”

Ergonomic requirements for the operation of machines and technical equipment

“…Such resources include tools and equipment in the workplace [14,15]. One significant requirement for machinery and equipment design is to account for knowledge on people's psychological and physical capabilities.…”

An Overview of Constantine’s Tram Safety

“…The operation of this means of transport has been awarded to the French partner [RATP Dev] in order to better transfer the European experience in the operating of this new mode of transport in Algeria. despite the fact that the safety management system adopted by the operating company was somewhat strict in terms of these safety procedures, but the difference in the behaviour of the European citizen and the Algerian citizen and supports the lack of a safety culture (Chaib et al, 2012) of the latter in the face of the risks associated with the operation of this mode of transport has contributed to the appearance of many accidents and incidents.…”