Incorporating workplace injury to measure the safety performance of industrial sectors in Taiwan

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The severity of workplace injuries varies by industry. Information on workplace injuries can enable firms and governments to effectively improve their safety performance based on the specific contexts of each industry. Incorporating the three workplace injury rates (being wounded or ill, disability, and death), a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is developed to evaluate the safety performance of 17 industrial sectors in Taiwan. The results suggest that the Taiwanese government should pay particular attention to the mining and quarrying industry, which has the lowest safety performance. Additionally, the results provide abundant information for the Taiwanese government to design industry safety regulations in a way that may prompt firms to develop a sustainable economy by improving their health and safety practices and enhancing their overall safety performance.

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  • Table 1. Description of input and output variables, based on incorporating workplace injury into business operational efficiency.
  • Table 2. Data on the three workplace injury rates and other variables.
  • Table 3. Incorporating the three workplace injury rates into the SBM model to evaluate efficiency scores and rankings among industries.
  • Table 4. The differences for each output and input variable.
  • Table 5. The inefficiency decomposition for each output and input variable.
  • Table 6. Results of the sensitivity analysis.

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Yeh, L. T. (2017). Incorporating workplace injury to measure the safety performance of industrial sectors in Taiwan. Sustainability (Switzerland), 9(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/su9122241

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