Factors Influencing Occupational Injuries In Steely Rolling Mill Industry PLC, Bishoftu, Ethiopia
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2020-01
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Addis Ababa University
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Worldwide, there are around 340 million occupational accidents and 160 million victims of work-related illnesses annually. The estimated fatal occupational accidents in the Common wealth of Independent States countries is over 11,000 cases, compared to the 5,850 reported cases. A study conducted recently among Workers in Large Scale Metal Manufacturing Industries in Ethiopia, indicated occupational injury rate was 489 per 1000 exposed workers per year. Thus, the purpose of this study is to know the prevalence and to assess the factors influencing employees work related injuries and assist Steely Rolling Mill Industry private limited company by forwarding appropriate recommendations. To address this objective, an institution based cross-
sectional study design was employed and a descriptive research design was adapted. One hundred-fifty three workers were selected by simple random sampling method as sample from production workers. For data collection management a pretested and structured questionnaire was used with interview technique, company data analysis record and check list were also used. To identify the significantly associated influencing factors of occupational injuries, data was entered and analyzed using SPSS version 23 statistical package, and Bivariate and multivariat logistic regression analyses were conducted. Thus the result reveals that the occupational injury 12 months prevalence rate was found 54.2% and the last four weeks was 28.8%. The most common injured body parts were hand, finger and eye; moreover, flying objects, collusion and slippery surface were the most common causes of occupational injury.
Hours work per week, sleeping disorder, chewing chat, level of education, marital status and work experience were found significantly associated with occupational injury.
Finally, occupational injuries were high in the Steely RMI factory workers. Most of the injuries occurred were preventable, because machines were not guarded to protect sharp and splitting object, oily and greasy work place not cleaned properly, employees were not obey to wear PPE. Therefore, it is recommended that the management shall strengthen its risk identification and mitigation strategy, shall create safety work practices and provide adequate safety training in order to control occupational injuries.
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Occupational Injuries, employe, machines