Abstract
Occupational hazards are undeniably a foremost determinant of inadequate initiative and contribute to collective inequalities in injuries, health, disabilities, and hasty transience. This study aimed to evaluate the roles of occupational hazards and their contributions to the occurrences of injuries among the Indian hard rock mine workers. Injury rates are calculated based on the normalized injury rate (NIR), and a loglinear model was investigated for the identification of causative factors involved mine accident through the cross-classification table. The application of loglinear model expedited the quantitative analyses of mine safety problems in a multivariate state of affairs on a hard rock mine in the eastern part of India. This model illustrates that the variations observed in cell frequencies are not indiscriminate and occupation is a major contributing factor followed by workplace location. Estimation of risk is done by the parameter calculated in this model, and important information about the reduction of the accidents in the underground metal mine is presented .
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Bhattacherjee, A., Kunar, B.M.: Epidemiology: a tool for risk analysis of mine injuries. Transactions of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy, and Engineering (SME) USA, vol. 328, pp. 490–500 (2011)
Bhattacherjee, A., Kunar, B.M., Chau, N.: Contribution of physical hazards and health-related factors in occupational injuries of underground coal miners: a matched case-control study. Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference of Safety in Mines Research Institutes (SIMRI), Beijing, China, September 28–29, SAWS, China, pp. 423–430 (2007)
Garson, D.G.: Factor Analysis: Statnotes. Retrieved March 22, 2008, from North Carolina State University Public Administration Program (2008), http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/factor.htm
Ghosh, A.K.: Risk assessment of occupational injuries in underground coal mines. J. Min. Met. Fuels 58(9), 243–248 (2010)
Ghosh, A.K., Bhattacherjee, A., Chau, N.: Relationships of working conditions and Individual characteristics to occupational injuries: a case control study in coal miners. J. Occup. Health 46, 470–478 (2004)
Ghosh, A.K., Bhattacherjee, A.: Predictors of occupational injuries among coal miners: a causal analysis. Min. Technol. (Transaction Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, United Kingdom and Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy), 116(1), 16–24 (2007)
Ghosh, A.K., Bhattacherjee, A.: Loglinear model for assessment of risk factors of occupational injuries in underground coal mines. J. Geol. Min. Res. 1(2), 25–33 (2009)
Kunar, B.M., Kumar, P. P.: Risk assessment and safety evaluation in underground metal mines. Proceedings of the 2nd National Seminar on “Underground Metal Mining: Status and Prospects” hosted by Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, 13–15th October, 2011, pp. 329–335 (2011)
Maiti, J., Bhattacherjee, A.: Evaluation of risk of occupational injuries among underground coal mine workers through multinomial logit analysis. J. Saf. Res. 30(2), 93–101 (1999)
Maiti, J., Bhattacharjee, A., Bangdiwala, S.I.: Loglinear model for analysis of cross tabulated coal mine injury data. Inj. Control Saf. Promot. 8(4), 229–236 (2001)
National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences Towards safer underground coal Mines. Material Academics Press, Washington, DC (1982)
Onder, M., Adiguzel, E.: Evaluation of occupational fatalities among underground coal mine workers through hierarchical loglinear models. Ind. Health 48, 872–878 (2010)
Onder, M., Onder, S., Adiguzel, E.: Applying Hierarchical Loglinear Models to Nonfatal Underground Coal Mine Accidents for Safety Management. Int. J. Occup. Saf. Ergon. 20(2), 239–248 (2014)
Pal, B.K., Khanda, D.K.: Risk management-an effective tool for accident prevention in mining industry. In: Proceedings of National Seminar on Rock Machine Interaction in Excavations, Varanasi, March 7–8, pp. 183–193 (2008)
Rahman, N.A.A., Ismail, A.R., Mansor, M.A.: Analysis of the perception of occupational accident in mining and quarry sector towards safe and healthy working environment. Int. J. Curr. Res. Acad. Rev. 1, 95–102 (2014). ISSN 2347–3215
Upton, J.G.: The analysis of cross-tabulated data. Wiley, New York (1977)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Sarkar, F., Paul, P.S., Mangal, A. (2018). Determinants of Risk Indices in Hard Rock Mine Using Loglinear Model. In: Maiti, J., Ray, P. (eds) Industrial Safety Management. Managing the Asian Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6328-2_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6328-2_7
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-6327-5
Online ISBN: 978-981-10-6328-2
eBook Packages: Business and ManagementBusiness and Management (R0)