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The Assessment Of The Suitability Of Ergonomic Specification In The Control Of Industrial Accident Rate In Agro Allied Industry
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Restored
sanity in the services and sales of Adapalm produce by insisting on the
policy of cash-for-product and first-in-first-out arrangement.
Reduced the Company’s produce debt by N42m by the end of April 2011.
Accrued
produce debts of year 2002 were serviced by the Interim Management
Committee. Commenced payment to some contractors who were at the verge
of instituting legal suits against Adapalm over unpaid bills.
Recruited about 120 fresh workers of different cadres to increase productivity and efficiency in the business of Adapalm.
Approved the increment of workers’ salary by 20% to induce higher performance. The last salary increment was done in 2001.
Approved the implementation of a general promotion for all the workers, the last of which was done in 2005.
Set
up a formal system of loose fruits were hitherto left in the hands of
thieves and the Company was loosing much revenue as a result.
Mobilized
work for total recovery of the Adapalm Plantation from thick forest as
most parts of the Plantation have not been cleared of bush for upward of
15years.
Installation of a modern communication gadget with a standby generator for its base operations.
Defrayed all outstanding administrative charges owed to MOPOL 18 Command to facilitate effective deployment of the Police.
Commenced the reactivation of the Umuogu Mill. Given sufficient resources, the Mill will resume full production in July 2011.
1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
This
research work is aimed at unveiling some of the industrial accident
that are associated with the agro allied industries in Nigeria such as
Musculoskeletal Disorders, Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTDs), Acute
Traumas, Ergonomic Stressors etc. and to stipulate ways in which this
accidents can be reduced trough the application of the ergonomic
specification method.
1.4 SIGNIFICANT OF THE STUDY
There have
been a lot of accidents in most of the agro allied industries in Nigeria
and the world at large. Owing to this fact, the findings of this
research work will be of great significant to most agro allied
industries. Though the research work was carried out within Adapalm, the
findings will be of great help to all the agro allied industries at
large.
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