Risk Factors and Occupational Safety Failures in Forest Work in the Southeast Asian Region
Occupational safety is generally known to be low in forestry work. A similar situation may be found in Southeast Asian countries, where health and safety aspects are not commonly taken care of so rigorously. However, there is also a lack of primary data which could be suitable for evaluating such is...
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| author | Tomi Kaakkurivaara Stelian Alexandru Borz Nopparat Kaakkurivaara |
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| description | Occupational safety is generally known to be low in forestry work. A similar situation may be found in Southeast Asian countries, where health and safety aspects are not commonly taken care of so rigorously. However, there is also a lack of primary data which could be suitable for evaluating such issues. The auditing reports of FCS certification are a source of useful information to evaluate and analyze health and safety concerns in forestry work. This paper addressed the coverage of available information, classified the risk factors uniformly from different certifying body criteria, compared occurrence of risk factors in groups and checked for dependencies in data. The key findings are that the main issues were those related to the organizations’ failures to protect the workers and to the lack of awareness of safety. In turn, these may explain the high incidence of forestry-related work accidents in Southeast Asia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6b22c2f8315242f1baa01e7f26d4d1df2023-11-24T14:54:17ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072022-11-011312203410.3390/f13122034Risk Factors and Occupational Safety Failures in Forest Work in the Southeast Asian RegionTomi Kaakkurivaara0Stelian Alexandru Borz1Nopparat Kaakkurivaara2Department of Forest Engineering, Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, 50 Ngamwongwan Rd, Lat Yao, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, ThailandDepartment of Forest Engineering, Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, 50 Ngamwongwan Rd, Lat Yao, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, ThailandDepartment of Forest Engineering, Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, 50 Ngamwongwan Rd, Lat Yao, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, ThailandOccupational safety is generally known to be low in forestry work. A similar situation may be found in Southeast Asian countries, where health and safety aspects are not commonly taken care of so rigorously. However, there is also a lack of primary data which could be suitable for evaluating such issues. The auditing reports of FCS certification are a source of useful information to evaluate and analyze health and safety concerns in forestry work. This paper addressed the coverage of available information, classified the risk factors uniformly from different certifying body criteria, compared occurrence of risk factors in groups and checked for dependencies in data. The key findings are that the main issues were those related to the organizations’ failures to protect the workers and to the lack of awareness of safety. In turn, these may explain the high incidence of forestry-related work accidents in Southeast Asia.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/12/2034wood harvestingaccident riskFSCcertification auditincident ratework safety |
| spellingShingle | Tomi Kaakkurivaara Stelian Alexandru Borz Nopparat Kaakkurivaara Risk Factors and Occupational Safety Failures in Forest Work in the Southeast Asian Region Forests wood harvesting accident risk FSC certification audit incident rate work safety |
| title | Risk Factors and Occupational Safety Failures in Forest Work in the Southeast Asian Region |
| title_full | Risk Factors and Occupational Safety Failures in Forest Work in the Southeast Asian Region |
| title_fullStr | Risk Factors and Occupational Safety Failures in Forest Work in the Southeast Asian Region |
| title_full_unstemmed | Risk Factors and Occupational Safety Failures in Forest Work in the Southeast Asian Region |
| title_short | Risk Factors and Occupational Safety Failures in Forest Work in the Southeast Asian Region |
| title_sort | risk factors and occupational safety failures in forest work in the southeast asian region |
| topic | wood harvesting accident risk FSC certification audit incident rate work safety |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/13/12/2034 |
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