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Effective safety trainings, safety campaigns, work permit system are considered as an important factor of administrative controls which help to improve the positive safety culture and to reduce accidents of an organization. Evaluation of these administrative controls should be done in order to identify any gaps in it and to improve the existing system. Usually, the evaluation is done in the end phase but still it can be done throughout the process. Evaluation improves the scope for review and continuous improvement. The aim of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of safety trainings, safety campaigns, work permit system existing in a company. A survey in the form of questionnaire was prepared and conducted to get various responses. The responses were then recorded and analyzed. Further suggestions and recommendations were given to improve the existing administrative controls.
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Manoj Prabakar, K.R., Siddiqui, N.A., Tauseef, S.M. (2018). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Administrative Controls in a Food Processing Industry. In: Siddiqui, N., Tauseef, S., Bansal, K. (eds) Advances in Health and Environment Safety. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7122-5_23
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