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

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Abstract

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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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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