Evaluation of behavioral constraints by using statistical tool and their mitigation at Hala Gas processing plant PPL, Sindh

Abstract

Work-related injuries are sharply increasing these days as of the high productivity demand. Every industry wants to produce more with minimum operating cost; the low operating cost can be achieved by reducing number of workers, less compensation and compromising on safety in terms of no proper training. All these factors consequently increase work load and dissatisfaction from job. Subsequently, the human behavior is changing, afterward either they voluntarily take risks or shows non serious attitude towards their duties. The objective of this study work is to appraise the behavior of workers in Hala Gas Field of PPL. The evaluation is based on the critical behavior checklist in which total 1196 observations were carried out, 884 observations were found safe and 312 remarks as unsafe. The result indicates that proportion of unsafe act is 26.1% wherein using mobile phone and awkward posture are 18% and 15% respectively. Second objective of this work is to choose certain parameters like age factor, experience, safety behavior, job dissatisfaction, stress recognition and taking volunteer risk. All these parameters are statistically correlated with each other and it is found that job dissatisfaction is strongly correlated (around 70.5%) with taking volunteer risk. The impact of work stress or production pressure is 80.3% on risk taking behavior. This risky behavior certainly causes injuries which require mitigation by Behavioral Based Safety implementation.Work-related injuries are sharply increasing these days as of the high productivity demand. Every industry wants to produce more with minimum operating cost; the low operating cost can be achieved by reducing number of workers, less compensation and compromising on safety in terms of no proper training. All these factors consequently increase work load and dissatisfaction from job. Subsequently, the human behavior is changing, afterward either they voluntarily take risks or shows non serious attitude towards their duties. The objective of this study work is to appraise the behavior of workers in Hala Gas Field of PPL. The evaluation is based on the critical behavior checklist in which total 1196 observations were carried out, 884 observations were found safe and 312 remarks as unsafe. The result indicates that proportion of unsafe act is 26.1% wherein using mobile phone and awkward posture are 18% and 15% respectively. Second objective of this work is to choose certain parameters like age factor, experien...