Examining psychosocial and physical hazards in the Ghanaian mining industry and their implications for employees' safety experience

Kwesi Amponsah-Tawiah, Aditya Jain, Stavroula Leka, David Hollis, Tom Cox

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)75-84
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Safety Research
Volume45
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Injury
  • Mining
  • Physical and psychosocial risks
  • Safety experience
  • Stress

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