Assessment of Occupational Stress and Unsafe acts Relationship with Occupational Accidents at the Electrical Workers in an Electricity Power Distribution Management

Subject Areas : Water and Environment

Hadi Negahdari ¹ (Department of Energy and Environment, Science and Research Branch, IAU, Tehran – Iran)
Hashem Negahdari ² (Mechanical engineering college, IAU, shiraz – Iran)

Received: 2011-04-25 Accepted : 2011-11-02 Published : 2011-12-22

Keywords: Stress, Accidents, Unsafe acts, BEHAVIOR, Unsafe Condition,

Abstract :

Nowadays electrical industry is considered vital in Iran because of lost of occurring occupational accidents. Due to occupational accident, every year many electrical workers die or injury and unsafe acts, unsafe conditions and occupational stress are the basic and effective factors in enhancing the occurance of occupational accidents. The first and the most step in controlling of that is to detect the sources of dangers. In this regard, assessment of unsafe acts of electricity distribution workers of an electrical management is the aim of this study. Related data collected using safety behavior sampling techniques, standard occupational questionnaires and analytical index calculation of previous accidents years. Data collected randomly by use of excel. Then data analyzed with Mini Tab 14 and related exams. This study showed  that  unsafe condition in work circumstance, unsafe acts and occupational stress have direct and meaningful relationship with each other. The existence of unsafe condition in work circumstance affected increasing unsafe acts and was allotted 55 % of all occupational accidents. Besides, age  academic degree, number of persons being under someone guardianship(p<0.01) and previous accidents showed a meaningful relationship. According to the results, It is vital to make safety cultural, capitalize on it, and managing a systematic plan in 3 categories. Creating the safe work circumstances, decreasing unsafe acts and stress control management to delete, decrease and control of effective factors in stress formation at electricity workers industry and to decrease unsafe acts

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