Impact of safety workers training in accident results
| Autor: | Estudillo Gil, Bárbara, Forteza Oliver, Francisco José, Carretero Gómez, José María |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Accidentes
Índice de incidencia de accidentes 5311.07 Investigación Operativa Siniestralidad Formación y empleo de trabajadores Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo (SST) Prevención de riesgos laborales Sector de la Construcción 5311.09 Organización de la Producción 5312.03 Construcción 6109.01 Prevención de Accidentes |
| Zdroj: | RIARTE Consejo General de la Arquitectura Técnica de España (CGATE) |
| Popis: | Accidents in construction sector have become a serious problem that is continuously growing and whose analysis is hampered by the characteristics of the sector, which limits access to the necessary data to allow to study the phenomenon, draw conclusions and make targeted proposals to reduce work accidents. The aim of this article is to analyse the preventive workers's training and some different organizational and economic characteristics of the companies in the sector to see their effect on accident rates as well as on labour efficiency. At a European level statistics on accidents in the sector indicate that the incidence rate of accidents is progressively decreasing but continues at very high levels. At national level, incidence rates have risen after the economic crisis and the Balearic Islands is the region with the highest incidence rate in Spain, with an increase of 24.61% in three years (2013-2016). To this end, 570 companies from the construction sector in the Balearic Islands has been selected. Building a panel data of 11 years (2007-2017) with all these companies data, with training, economic and accidents data, we aim to find empirical evidence in the relationship among safety training policy of a company, its accident rate and its economic performance. Using Poisson linear and quadratic regression methods, we test whether or not there exist a relationship between training in firms and their accident rate. The variables that are included in this study are, on the one hand, the training on safety received by the workers, considering the different levels of training established by the applicable regulations and some economic characteristics of the companies, on the other, the accidents occurred in these companies during the time of this study. The results show evidence of a relationship between the level of training of the companies and their accident rates. This study also aims to provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between safety training and level of safety at work and the subsequent accidents. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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