IS428 2016-17 Term1 Assign2 Liang Bing

Abstract

In order to put Singapore's workplace safety and health (WSH) performance on par with the world's leading countries, The Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Institute is established to collaborate with MOH to work on researching, as well as data collecting and analyzing to understand the current and emerging work environment in Singapore, and use the knowledge discovered to develop solutions for improving WSH practices. One of the field of concern is the workplace injury. This report will utilize the workplace injury data provided by WSHI to explore insights which could help find trends and understand the workplace injury situation in 2014.

Theme of Interest

Workplace injury has always been a concern of WSH. Workplace injury can be seen as the accidents happen to workers in their working environment. Some job s are naturally more dangerous than the normal office jobs. Also, certain group of people will have higher chance to get injured during work compare to others. Therefore, finding out the characteristics of people who has high probability to get injured is very important for WSHI and stakeholders to understand the risk in their workplace and improve their management accordingly. This hence is the main focus of this report.

Questions for Investigation

The following are the questions guides through the data exploration process to determine how the characteristics of workplace injury victims affect their nature of injury:

1. How does occupation affect their nature of injury.
2. Work overtime and cause of injury (self/external)
3. Percentage of manual work and nature of injury.

Understanding the Data

Data Attributes

There are a total of 5650 rows of data with 48 attributes(Columns)per row.