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Management Of Employee Welfare With Emphasis On Industrial Accidents And Safety
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1.3 INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT PROBLEM.
In this age global
economic diversification from the agricultural sector to the
manufacturing sector or what we would call the industrial revolution
there is no doubt that there is an increase in the number of industrial
springing up in most of our metropolitan cities
To manyNigeriathis
is of great benefit in terms of employment increase in production and
promotion of economic growth. However development becomes a source of
sorrows to many house holds industrial hazards in these companies have
been inevitable. Inspite of several years of effort by the federal
government to find ways of educing accidents, it still remain a serious
problem “worldwide trends shows that while these has been significant
reduction in total accidents in the past 15years injuries have increased
not only in absolute numbers but also in rates per exposed workers.
Judging from data of 14 industrialized countries the total number of
injured people seems to be increasing yearly by 5%.
Here inNigeriait
can be rightly said that in the first quarter of 1990 three were about
720 industrial accident casualties. These figures are quite alarming
and close to N100.000.00 was spent for that three months only.
For
the injured their families can’t be fully compensated for the loss;
some are incapacitated for life and therefore can’t regain health and
strength. A part from that human suffering linked with accident cannot
be over emphasized. More so there is lot of time lost by other employee
who stop work in sympathy of their injured colleagues cost of time
lost by supervisor in investigating the real cause of the accident and
reporting to employers remember the saying “time lost can never be
regainedâ€
Additional losses include lost to employer through
employee welfare and benefit system and also cost due to be loss of
profit on the injured workers.
On might be prompted to ask what
really is accident well “accident has bee seen by various cadres of
professionals and laymen and has been interpreted to mean unforeseen
happening an unexpected occurrence which produces hurt or loss of life.
They
do not just happen rather they are caused and at last majority of them
are preventable be use of safely devices and proper working system. It
is in the light of this that federal government has enacted different
safety laws that would play preventive roles in reducing the rate of
industrial accident.
They include:
Work man compensation ct of 1942
Environment safety law (e.g. of heating and lighting)
total accident act of 1961
health and safety at work act of 1974
Nigeriafactory act of 1961 etc.
The question is of which extent has these government laws reduced the rate of industrial accidents?
There
are still a lot of hazard in or manufacturing companies general. J.W
Boley outline that accident are caused by employee’s errors supervisor
error and management error and of course machine error. This view is
supported many experts. From what been said if proper steps are not
taken to identify and forestall the cause of these hazards and prevent
adequate and workable safety laws there is the tendency that the rate of
fatal accidents in our manufacturing concerns would continue to be on
the increase. Thus this research work would attempt to bring out the
actual causes of accidents and the frequency of occurrence. However
slight reference will be made on the legal implication of these
activities.
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