TY  - JOUR
T1  - Factors Related to the Accident at Work:
Manufacturing vs. Construction Companies
AU - Burawat, Piyachat 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 10
IS  - 19
SP  - 4567
EP  - 4574
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2016.4567.4574
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.4567.4574
KW  - serious accidents
KW  -accident costs
KW  -immediate causes
KW  -contributing causes
KW  -Accidents at work
KW  -normal accidents
AB  - The purposes of the study are to examine, the relationship among the demographic factors affecting
accidents at work, the causes or the personal, the policy and the environmental factors affecting accidents at
work, the direct and indirect costs of accidents at work and to forecasts the accidents cost. The mixed method
procedure was used to investigate the qualitative study by applying the purposive sampling technique. The
subjects of the study were 61 employees who had accidents at work; thereby 41 employees were derived from
2 manufacturing companies and 20 employees from 5 construction projects of a construction company, of which
the operation was from September 2015 to March 2016. The majority of participants are male (60.7%) with the
average age of 37.95 years old and with level of education of grade 12 and above (50.8%); most of them are Thai
employees (93.4%). Besides, the average working experience for manufacturing is at 15.60 years whereas that
of construction is at 2.02 years. The participants had been provided with the safety training (70.5%) and most
participants get severe accident (78.7%). The results further show that females were more likely to get severe
accident 1.607 times than male. The participants without safety training were more likely to get severe accident
2.750 times than who had been provided with the safety training. The participants who graduated from grade
12 and above were more likely to get severe accident 8.395 times than those who graduated from grade 9 and
under. Based on content analysis, the main factors of accidents were personal factors (70.00%), environmental
factors (26.25%) and policy factors (3.75%), respectively. The costs of accidents at work were classified into
2 categories including the direct costs arising from the compensation and the medical treatment (22.22%) and
the indirect costs arising from the accident compensation fund, the machine maintenance costs, the
transportation costs, the accident management costs and the opportunity costs (77.78%).
ER  -