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Workers’ safety awareness level on hand related injury accident in metal fabrication industry

The aim of this paper is to measure the safety awareness level of workers by means of hand related injury accident recorded in Production Department of Metal Fabrication Process Company located in southern peninsular Malaysia. Base on the accident data obtained from year 2008 until 2012, it showed a...

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Main Authors: Amin, Z., Mohammad, R., Abdul Aziz, S., Othman, N.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2015
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TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/63302/
http://www.akademiabaru.com/wvcasea2015/
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spelling my.utm.633022017-05-30T02:53:49Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/63302/ Workers’ safety awareness level on hand related injury accident in metal fabrication industry Amin, Z. Mohammad, R. Abdul Aziz, S. Othman, N. TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery The aim of this paper is to measure the safety awareness level of workers by means of hand related injury accident recorded in Production Department of Metal Fabrication Process Company located in southern peninsular Malaysia. Base on the accident data obtained from year 2008 until 2012, it showed an increasing numbers of accidents involving hand. In year 2008 the rate is 36.3%, year 2009 is 30%, year 2010 is 37.5%, year 2011 is 33.3% and year 2012 is 37.5%. Site observation has been conducted to assess the hazards involve (safety and ergonomic) to the metal fabrication activities being carried out. Survey Questionnaires have been distributed to 80 respondents from different job trade. The Respondent data was analysed to obtain the safety awareness level for each worker’s trade. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Amin, Z. and Mohammad, R. and Abdul Aziz, S. and Othman, N. (2015) Workers’ safety awareness level on hand related injury accident in metal fabrication industry. In: Proceedings of the 4th World Virtual Conference on Applied Sciences & Engineering Applications, 28-30 Nov, 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://www.akademiabaru.com/wvcasea2015/
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Amin, Z.
Mohammad, R.
Abdul Aziz, S.
Othman, N.
Workers’ safety awareness level on hand related injury accident in metal fabrication industry
description The aim of this paper is to measure the safety awareness level of workers by means of hand related injury accident recorded in Production Department of Metal Fabrication Process Company located in southern peninsular Malaysia. Base on the accident data obtained from year 2008 until 2012, it showed an increasing numbers of accidents involving hand. In year 2008 the rate is 36.3%, year 2009 is 30%, year 2010 is 37.5%, year 2011 is 33.3% and year 2012 is 37.5%. Site observation has been conducted to assess the hazards involve (safety and ergonomic) to the metal fabrication activities being carried out. Survey Questionnaires have been distributed to 80 respondents from different job trade. The Respondent data was analysed to obtain the safety awareness level for each worker’s trade.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Amin, Z.
Mohammad, R.
Abdul Aziz, S.
Othman, N.
author_facet Amin, Z.
Mohammad, R.
Abdul Aziz, S.
Othman, N.
author_sort Amin, Z.
title Workers’ safety awareness level on hand related injury accident in metal fabrication industry
title_short Workers’ safety awareness level on hand related injury accident in metal fabrication industry
title_full Workers’ safety awareness level on hand related injury accident in metal fabrication industry
title_fullStr Workers’ safety awareness level on hand related injury accident in metal fabrication industry
title_full_unstemmed Workers’ safety awareness level on hand related injury accident in metal fabrication industry
title_sort workers’ safety awareness level on hand related injury accident in metal fabrication industry
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/63302/
http://www.akademiabaru.com/wvcasea2015/
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