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Prevention of epoxy eczema at a wind turbine factory

Changes in safety climate and accidents in 2 identical manufactoring plants. Kurt Rasmussen , Kent Nielsen et al. Dep. of occupational medicine, Herning Hospital Herning, Denmark. Prevention of epoxy eczema at a wind turbine factory

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Prevention of epoxy eczema at a wind turbine factory

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  1. Changes in safety climate and accidents in 2 identical manufactoring plants. Kurt Rasmussen , Kent Nielsen et al. Dep. of occupational medicine, Herning Hospital Herning, Denmark Prevention of epoxy eczema at a wind turbine factory Dep. Of Occupational Medicine , Herning , Denmark Dep. Of Occupational and Enviromental Dermatology, Malmø Sweden

  2. Aim and design • Aim: 1) To study the level of safety climate and accident occurrence at two ”twin” plants. 2) To evaluate the effect on safety climate and accident occurence, of knowledge transfer from Plant A to B, as a ”natural” intervention. • Design: A longitudinal study during 1 year, with comparison between twin plants.

  3. Natural intervention Knowledge transfer from plant A B: • New safety instruction • Education and learning • Safety audits – walk throughs • Self-governing groups: 8 persons per group, one responsible for work environment.

  4. Questionnaire data • Plant A N rate of particip. t0 338 88% t1 443 78% both rounds 290 67% • Plant B t0 364 94% t1 293 86% both rounds 227 70%

  5. results • Leadership factors General Leadership t0 t1 dif.A-B,t0 dif.A-B, t1 plant A………………………………………………… 3.68 3.60 0.23** 0.13(*) plant B…………………………………………………. 3.45 3.47 - - Safety leadership plant A……………………………………………………3.68 3.56 0.26* -0.01 plant B……………………………………………………3.42 3.57 - - Organisational factors safety instructions plant A………………………………………………..3.79 3.78 -0.02 -0.08 plant B…………………………………………………3.81 3.86 - -

  6. results • Worker factors convenience violations t0 t1 dif.A-B,t0 dif. A-B,t1 plant A…………………………………… 3.30 3.17 0.15(*) -0.06 plant B ……………………………………..3.15 3.23 - - safety oversights plant A……………………………………4.00 3.92 0.18** 0.2 plant B……………………………………3.82 3.90 - - commitment to workplace plant A…………………………………..3.61 3.46 0.35** 0.31** plant B………………………………… 3.26 3.16 - -

  7. Mean number of self-reported accidents per participant / plant / year

  8. Company registered LTA`s per million working hours

  9. Summary and results • The 2 plants had many commenconditions, but differences in safety climate scores and accident-rates at T0 . • After one year there was a convergence in safety climate scores. Plant B reduced self-reported accidents by 77% and company-LTA`s by 52%.

  10. Conclusions • This study supports a relationship between improvements in a questionnaire measures of safety climate and a reduction in rates of self-reported accidents as well as company registered accidents (LTA`s)

  11. Thank you for your attention • heckra@ringamt.dk

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