Citation

Amponsah-Tawiah K, Jain A, Leka S, Hollis D, Cox T. J. Saf. Res. 2013; 45: 75-84.

Affiliation

Department of Organization & Human Resources Management, University of Ghana Business School, P.O. Box LG78, LEGON, Accra, Ghana. Electronic address: kamposah-tawiah@ug.edu.gh.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, U.S. National Safety Council, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jsr.2013.01.003

PMID

23708478

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: In addition to hazardous conditions that are prevalent in mines, there are various physical and psychosocial risk factors that can affect mine workers' safety and health. Without due diligence to mine safety, these risk factors can affect workers' safety experience, in terms of near misses, disabling injuries and accidents experienced or witnessed by workers. METHOD: This study sets out to examine the effects of physical and psychosocial risk factors on workers' safety experience in a sample of Ghanaian miners. 307 participants from five mining companies responded to a cross sectional survey examining physical and psychosocial hazards and their implications for employees' safety experience. RESULTS: Zero-inflated Poisson regression models indicated that mining conditions, equipment, ambient conditions, support and security, and work demands and control are significant predictors of near misses, disabling injuries, and accidents experienced or witnessed by workers. The type of mine had important implications for workers' safety experience.

Language: en