Safety Management in Workplace for Operational Level Employees of Petrochemicals Industries in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Zone

Abstract

The objectives of this research “safety management in the workplace for operational level employees of petrochemicals industries in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Zone” were 1) to study the causes of accidents at work, 2) to compare the mean differences in factors that affect the occurrence of hazards at work, 3) to propose guidelines for safety management in the workplace. Data was collected with a questionnaire. The sample and key informants were executives and safety officers for 200 samples. Descriptive analysis, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, and Scheffe were used for the data analysis. The statistical significance was determined at 0.05.

The results showed respondents were supervisors and safety officers in big businesses with operations for more than 10 years. They rated the importance of all three factors as very important, comparison of the important factors affecting accidents in the work classified by business size and duration of business was a statistically significant difference at the 0.05 level, when comparing the significance level classified by general status in job position was the difference of 1 item, which is the aspect of personal disability.