IS428 2016-17 Term1 Assign2 Jonathan Eduard Chua Lim
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Problem and Motivation
In recent times, there had been growing interest in Workplace Safety since the legislation for Workplace Safety and Health Act take into effect in September 2011 (WSH, 2015). This is to protect the workers mainly from any hazards that they may encounter during their work. This is also for other stakeholders to understand the importance of Workplace Safety and to inculcate Workplace Safety in their respective companies.
Having personally worked in a manufacturing firm during my recent internship, I have seen first-hand the importance of safety in the workplace, and the active promotion of safety in the company’s values. Good safety practices are talked about with the rest of the employees and shared to other factories around the Asia Pacific Region and beyond.
Theme
The theme of this project is Championing Workplace Safety: Prevention is better than cure. The approach that I will have is to identify which particular industries have higher workplace lapses and to understand certain patterns unknown to stakeholders, so that they may be able to make better decisions for the improvement of workplace safety.
Stakeholders can be the business owners, government officials, non-government organisations and especially employees who could be working in industries where they need to watch for their own personal safety.
Questions
The following are the questions I have crafted for this task:
1. Which industry has the most major and minor injuries? 2. In a 24-hour period, which time period has the highest average medical leave (in days)? 3. Which industry has the average longest medical leave? 4. Which month had the highest number of accidents? 5. What is the distribution of the age of the injured employees? 6. What are the common injuries per industry?
