Prevalence and Factors Associated with Work Related Injuries among Iron and Steel Industries workers Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Belachew, Ayele(PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Shikur, Bilal(PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tora, Zeleke | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27T11:07:46Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-05T14:46:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-27T11:07:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-05T14:46:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background Occupational accidents and work-related diseases cause over 2.3 million fatalities annually. This means that each year 54,000 workers die and 42 million work related accidents take place that cause at least three days’ absence from work∙ Although few studies in Ethiopia showed that the prevalence of work related injury reaches up to 78.3%. But studies in iron and steel industries in Addis Ababa showed inconsistent finding. This study is believed to avoid uncertainty on previous findings and provide further information that may help policy makers, and trade unions in their efforts to improve occupational health and safety in iron and steel industries in Ethiopia. Objective - To assess the prevalence of work related injuries and associated risk factors among iron and steel industries workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Methods- Institution based cross sectional study was conducted from March to April 2015 among 1110 randomly selected workers in Iron and steel industries. Data was collected using structured questionnaire by trained data collectors and analyzed using SPSS window version 20 where descriptive and logistics regression computed to see association between different factors and work related injuries. Result- The overall prevalence of occupational and work related injury was 35%. Among factors, Sex(male) [AOR 1.96, 95%CI: (1.05, 3.67)], Employment condition being temporary employee [AOR 2.65, 95%CI: (1.49, 4.71)], untrained on safety and health [AOR 1.92, 95%CI: (1.19, 3.11)], no shifting [AOR 1.50, 95%CI: (1.02, 2.21)], presence work place violence [AOR 1.88, 95%CI: (1.18, 2.98)], safe solid waste disposal system [AOR 2.01, 95%CI: (1.35, 3.02)] machine work [AOR 1.71, 95%CI: (1.13, 2.59)], unguarded machine [AOR 2.35, 95%CI: (1.46, 3.78)], cigarette smoking [AOR 4.78, 95%CI: (2.32, 2.59)], sleeping disorder [AOR 2.01, 95%CI: (1.16, 3.75)] and not using personal protective equipments [AOR 4.26, 95%CI: (2.78, 6.53)] were significantly associated with presence of injury. Conclusion and recommendation - the magnitude of work related injury in iron and steel industries was high and lack of safety and health training, work place violence, sleeping on work place, unavailability of safe waste disposal system, smoking cigarette, working on unguarded machine and not using PPE identified as risk factors. Therefore safety and health training and proper using of PPE should be given due attention in all iron and steel industries. Key words - work related injury, Iron and steel factors | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/10252 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Work related injury | en_US |
| dc.subject | Iron and steel factors | en_US |
| dc.title | Prevalence and Factors Associated with Work Related Injuries among Iron and Steel Industries workers Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |