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KMID : 1138720070330010066
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Korean Public Health Research
2007 Volume.33 No. 1 p.66 ~ p.77
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Managerial Risk Factors of Workplace Safety and Health Associated with Occupational Injuries in Manufacturing Companies
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Park Kyoung-Ok
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Abstract
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Objectives : The purposes were to identify the managerial risk factors of workplace safety and health associated with occupational injuries in manufacturing factories.
Methods : A total of 2,633 manufacturing factories participated in the 2005 Nationwide Workplace Safety and Health Survey conducted by Korean Occupational Safety and Health Agency. A health and safety manager per a target factory participated in the face-to-face interview survey. These survey factories were selected by the multiple stratified sampling method based on industrial type, company size, and regions. The questionnaire asked about general characteristics, occupational injury incidence rate, workplace safety and health management, employee safety and health education, and perceptions on occupational injury prevention. Survey responses were anonymously coded into the SPSS statistical program and testified in Chi-square analysis, t-test, and logistic regression analysis. All companies were classified to the low and high injury groups if the injury incidence per 1,000 was less than 1.0 or equal or greater than 1.0.
Results : The workplace safety management factors associated with occupational injury were region, industrial type, foreign employee rate, elderly employee rate and shift employee rate. Greater percentage of the injury group was related to Daegu, Kyungbuk, Pusan, Woolsan, and Jaeju regions (OR=1.54), high rate of foreign employee (OR=2.27), high rate of elderly employee (OR=2.84), and high rate of shift employee (OR=1.60). The total prediction power of these factors on occupational injury group classification was 77.6%.
Conclusion : workplace general characteristics had stronger prediction power of occupational injury than workplace safety and health management status over manufacturing, constructing, and the other non-manufacturing companies. A primary reason of the weak power of the safety management factors on occupational injury might be time difference between injury incidence (during the past one year) and the safety management status (current).
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KEYWORD
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Workplace injury, Safety and Health Management, Risk Factor, Manufacturing Company
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