Occupational injuries, methods of analysis and reasons

work-related injury is considered to be any damage to the human body, an employee received in an accident at a time when he performed his job responsibilities and leading to the loss of their ability to work.The totality of all work-related injuries is getting the name of industrial injuries.Among the accidents release:

- in severity: light, heavy and fatal;

- by the number of victims: single and group;

- in the circumstances: associated with the production, work-related and not to production, domestic accidents.

detailed study of the circumstances surrounding a particular accident, the Commission is engaged in occupational safety and health, which sends the information to collect insurance delegates from the union.

Industrial injuries has negative consequences of the production and social nature, which requires the implementation of preventive measures on the economic objects.To fight against this phenomenon can only be subject to a systematic analysis of the causes of its occurrence.

causes of occupational injuries are classified as follows.

  • Organizational.These include violation of safety due to the lack of training of workers, poor work discipline, low levels of workflow and control over it.
  • Engineering.Manifested in the form of deficiencies in equipment design, poor quality of protective equipment, poor maintenance, damage to fences, etc.
  • Sanitation.This high level of noise and vibration, insufficient lighting, harmful radiation, the contents of domestic premises in poor condition.
  • Natural factors such as mass epidemics or natural disasters.
  • Economic - socio-economic and productive and economic.
  • Causes physiological and psychological nature.

In analyzing the causes of accidents at work produced a series of measures aimed at their elimination, and timely warning.It uses such methods of analysis of occupational injuries as topographic, monographic and statistical.

Topographic method is needed to determine the locations of the most frequent manifestations of injuries over time.In the future, this is where the optimization of workplaces and troubleshooting.

monographic method is thorough analysis of multilateral reasons that occupational injuries observed in the workplace.Its use will be more effective in combination with a statistical analysis method.

statistical method involves the study of quantitative reports on accidents at work.For a complete picture of the severity of the coefficients are calculated and the frequency of injuries.

receiving data in a comprehensive and carefully conducted analysis of working conditions, occupational safety and health service with the help of the administration carries out a number of measures.Among them: mandatory safety training;systematic monitoring of maintenance workers with protection and the serviceability of the equipment;compliance with labor legislation;compliance with the terms of the agreement with the union on labor protection.

as precautionary measures in favor equipment cabinets and corners on safety.They placed scheme, posters, manuals, stands with personal protective equipment, measuring instruments vibration, noise, light.

To minimize occupational injuries, together with the administration of the enterprise trade union committee is developing a plan of measures and actions for the protection of labor, which is included in the section of the draft collective agreement.After signing the contract with the Trade Union, together with the administration of the last report regularly to the team on compliance with the items of the contract.