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Relationships between Shift Work and Occupational Accidents in a Steel Company  

Seo, Yoo-Jin (Department of Exercise and Sport Science Studies, Kyungnam University)
Kazuya, Matsumoto (Department of Psychology, Hiroshima Bunkyo Women's University)
Moon, Se-Keun (Environment and Safety Team, Korea Iron & Steel Company)
Jung, Min-Sang (Department of Industrial Engineering, Graduate School, Kyungnam University)
Kim, Myung-Il (Department of Physical Education, Kyungnam University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.20, no.3, 2005 , pp. 188-196 More about this Journal
Abstract
Accident reports from 1991 to 2000 of a steel company were used to analyze which factors induce industrial accidents. The subjects were 8,311 blue-collar workers, who sustained 114 occupational injuries and work on a continuous full-day 3-team 3-shift system of backward rotation(mornings to afternoons to nights). With respect to marital status, the occupational injury rate(OIR) on the married workers was significantly higher compared to unmarried workers. With respect to no, the OIR of those in their early 20s was significantly higher when compared to other age groups. The OIR of highly educated workers showed a reduction when compared with lower educated workers. The OIR of shift workers were significantly higher compared with the daytime workers. The OIR of type of work decreased across the steel manufacturing process, rolling process, machine maintenance section forwarding products section to the field management section. With respect to the block of shift work(morning, afternoon, and night shifts) by the type of work, the OIR of the night shift was higher than those of the morning shift in the steel manufacturing process or forwarding products section. The OIR of the machine maintenance section was slightly higher in the morning shift than those of the night shift. The OIR of the time of day of the shift workers reached a peak between 09:00 and 11:00. The OIR of a slight injury to shift workers decreased across the night, afternoon, to morning shifts whereas the OIR of a serious injury tended to decrease across the night, morning, to afternoon shift. The body parts most commonly injured were the arm and the crus.
Keywords
occupational injury rate; shift work; steel company; blue-collar workers;
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