Occupational Injury Characteristics and Safety Issues in the Chemical Industry

Abstract

The provision of a secure atmosphere, safe tools, and safe processes in the workplace to protect the health and protection of workers is referred to as worker safety. While companies have a moral duty to guarantee the safety of their workers. The goal of this survey is to define the characteristics of occupational injury among chemical production workers and to improve security issues. Injury data was gathered and analyzed based on a variety of factors, including age, gender, skill level, hazard type, and so on. According to the study, 55 percent of injured workers were more than 40 years, maximum numbers of injury occury in first shift and minimum numbers of injury occurred in third shift, 62% of injury occur in hand, feet, arm, eye and face and 38% of injury occur in knee shoulder, throat and head.  As a future point of view this study will help to identify reasons of worker safety in chemical industry.