Trends in Workplace Injuries in Slovak Forest Enterprises

Gejdoš, Miloš; Vlčková, Mária; Allmanová, Zuzana; Balážová, Žaneta

doi:10.3390/ijerph16010141

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“…However, employees can be motivated also by non-financial way more precisely by promotion or praise. The effort to create a good climate at workplace or the creation of a health and save work environment are also important (Gejdos et al, 2019;Naile & Selesho, 2014;Muogbo, 2013). At the same time, it is necessary to take into consideration the fact that every employee is different, has different needs and he is motivated by something else in every stage of his career advancement.…”

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Education as a Key in Career Building

Hitka

Štarchoň

Lorincová

et al. 2021

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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Human resources in companies are gaining increasingly more strategic meaning by its ability to influence reaching company goals. The task of a manager is to understand the fact that every employee is different, has different needs, goals, and ambitions, is motivated by something else in every stage of career ladder. The aim of the paper is to define the influence of education in building the employee’s career. The presumption if the level of education has influence on the career motivation factors is verified on the sample of 3,720 respondents. The results of the research have confirmed that the employee’s career is influenced by the level of education significantly. Motivation factors education and personal growth, applying own skills, self-fulfillment, and autonomous decision-making are perceived differently in terms of importance and gender. Therefore, it is recommended the company managers to include into leading of employee’s career also the level of education in the context of gender that influences employee’s needs and interests.

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Section: Theoretical Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Education as a Key in Career Building

Hitka

Štarchoň

Lorincová

et al. 2021

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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“…Several studies have investigated the relationship between employment sectors and WRI and have identified employment sector as an important risk factor for the occurrence of fatal injuries in the workplaces [13,20,31,32]. In these studies, the agriculture, forestry, and fishing sector was found to be the leading industry in reporting fatal injuries among workers, followed by construction and mining sectors [23,25,[32][33][34]. When conveyance injuries were excluded in the current study, workers from information and technology; electricity, gas, and steam; wholesale and retail trade; and construction and building sectors demonstrated higher rates of fatal injuries.…”

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Work-Related Injuries Reported toWorkers Compensation Fund in Tanzania from 2016 to 2019

Shewiyo

Mwanga

Mrema

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Quality data on the magnitude and determinants of work-related injuries is an important element in the development of appropriate preventative strategies. However, there have been many challenges in obtaining quality information on work-related injuries in the developing countries. This archival study based on the data from workers’ compensation registry from the year 2016 to 2019 aimed at determining trends and factors associated with work-related injuries (WRI). Data from 4578 WRI claims reported to Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) in Tanzania were analyzed. As expected, this new workers’ compensation system had increasing participation from inception in 2016 through 2019, resulting in increasing numbers of fatal and non-fatal work-related claims. Motor traffic accidents, machine faults and falls were the most reported causes of WRI. Males had more than 2-fold increased odds of sustaining fatal injuries compared to females. More than 6-fold increased odds of fatal injuries were observed for injuries occurring during conveyance. Explosions, motor traffic accidents, and falls were more likely to result into fatal injuries. Increased odds of fatal injuries were observed in workers from transportation and storage sector; information and technology; construction and building; and electricity, gas, and steam sectors, as well as among teachers, drivers, office workers, and security guards. The current study offers some insights regarding trends and associated factors that are vital in planning and implementation of appropriate preventative strategies for work-related injuries in Tanzania.

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“…The average accident rate in forestry in the years 2003-2017 amounted to 8.19 per 1000 employees, while for the country as a whole in 2017 the rate was 6.84 [26]. In turn, a study carried out in Slovakia for the period 2000-2016, where similarly to Poland the majority of forest operations are carried out by private companies, showed the absence of any significant drop in the accident rate in forestry [23].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The fatality rate was markedly higher in the private sector. The majority of fatal accidents take place during the timber harvesting process (e.g., [11,16,18,23,[29][30][31][32][33][34]). The privatization of forest operations in the State Forests Holding in Poland resulted in the transfer of virtually all of the most dangerous operations to the private sector.…”

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“…However, most of these are focused on the analysis of accidents occurring during timber harvesting, which is an operation subject to the highest accident risk (e.g., [7,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]). Relatively few studies analyze accident occurrence on a wider scale, for example in a whole country, or compare accidents in the forestry sector against other industries [7,[21][22][23].…”

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The Influence of the Privatization Process on Accident Rates in the Forestry Sector in Poland

Grzywiński

Skonieczna²,

Jelonek

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the changes in accident rates resulting from the privatization of forest operations. Data from the years 1990–2017 were obtained from the Statistical Forestry Yearbooks issued by Statistics Poland, and were analyzed for two periods: the time of intensive privatization (1991–2002) and the post-privatization period (2003–2017). The data from 1990 were treated as a benchmark. There were 14,626 accidents in total, of which 236 (1.61%) were fatal. The non-fatal accident rate in the whole forestry industry showed a decreasing trend in the study period (t = 2.27, p < 0.05). In the case of the fatal accident rate we can observe an upward trend; in the period of intensive privatization the average annual fatality rate was 0.11, and after privatization it was 0.18 (t = −2.68, p < 0.05). In both periods the fatality rate was twice as high in the private forestry sector as in the public sector. The number of working days lost declined in the public sector and increased in the private sector. An accident in the private sector resulted in 20 days’ longer absence than one in the public sector. The study confirms that despite economic transition, accident rates in Polish forestry remain a serious issue. The main problem to be addressed is the increase in the fatal accident rate, especially in the private sector.

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Trends in Workplace Injuries in Slovak Forest Enterprises

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Education as a Key in Career Building

Education as a Key in Career Building

Work-Related Injuries Reported toWorkers Compensation Fund in Tanzania from 2016 to 2019

The Influence of the Privatization Process on Accident Rates in the Forestry Sector in Poland

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