Occupational Hazard Prevention in Manufacturing Systems

Abstract:

Occupational hazard prevention constitutes a key action in the area of shaping safe and healthy work conditions in manufacturing systems. This article presents the results of verification of existence and nature of relationships between the types of preventive means used and the structure of individual companies from the industrial processing sector. As part of our research work, we identified the level of use of technical means, organisational means and personal protection means in the particular divisions of the industrial processing sector, we determined the structure of individual companies from the particular divisions, and then, using the Tau Kendall correlation coefficient, we also confirmed the existence of relationships between the level of use of technical means and the structure of the analysed individual manufacturing system companies.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 718)
• Pages: 227-232
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.718.227
• Online since: December 2014
• Authors: Joanna Tabor*
• Keywords: Manufacturing Systems, Occupational Hazards, Safety at Work

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