An assessment of the psychological undertones to accidents in manufacturing industries
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Trans Stellars
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To err is human. This apparently explains the occurrence of accidents in manufacturing
industries around the world. The study reviewed notable empirical findings on the
psychological undertones to the causes of accidents in manufacturing industries in the
past ten years. Documentary cum content analyses methods were adopted. The study
spanned Nigeria, United Kingdom, Spain, India, Malaysia and Thailand. The core
research questions are: What are the categories of factors responsible for accidents in
manufacturing industries? What proportion of the various factors attributed for accidents
in the manufacturing industries are psychological? What are the psychological factors
responsible for accidents in manufacturing industries. Some of the categories of causes
found were: financial, mechanical, and psychological. Seventy-three percent [73%] of
the identified causes of accidents in manufacturing industries had psychological
undertone, and virtually all these causes were preventable. It was therefore
recommended that concerted efforts should be made to evolve valid psychological
instruments for collating the prevalence and causes of accidents in manufacturing
industries around the world; there should be more astute psychological screening of
factory managers and proprietors for mental health; and there should be regular
psychological training to build the cognitive, emotional and social intelligences of keys
players in manufacturing industries to circumvent the occurrence of accidents in
manufacturing industries around the world
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BF Psychology, H Social Sciences (General)