THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE FOR ASSESSING RISKS AND ESTIMATING INDUSTRIAL MAN-HOUR LOSS

In lower income countries such as those of the South Asia and Africa, several workers are either ignorant or un-care about the risks associated with the jobs they do. This has led to frequent accident situations in industries causing colossal loss of resource. This paper presents the development of interactive software employed for assessing risks and estimating industrial man-hour loss and its economic implications. Accident investigation registers were administered to 21 various manufacturing and oil and gas industries to assess their workplace associated risks. Typical incident cases such as amputation, electrocution, asphyxia, crushes, head injuries, sprain, slips and falls, and some others were identified during the study duration. It was discovered that about 24 hours to 3,158 hours could be lost depending on the severity of injuries/accidents. For catastrophic category of injuries/accidents, a worker could be render incapable or even dies. A mathematical relation was formulated for quantifying the man-hour losses in monetary values.