Assessment of Safety Measures at Medium Scale Manufacturing Enterprise at Bengaluru

Abstract

In current world manufacturing industry needs to take care of employee safety as to abide by law. Many new laws are getting implemented for making working environment safe for workers in manufacturing industry. The accident rates in the manufacturing industry are very high as it involves a lot of machine handling which is a threat to the workers. As to provide protection for the workers the industry should have safety measures and should try and educate all the workers regarding it. Only when the industry looks after its employees, the employee’s will be loyal and give their complete energy to fulfill the organization goals. By applying the safety measures in every level in the industry the awareness about it will increase among the workers. Just providing safety measures is not enough and the organization should train the workers about its usage and importance In order to make sure to have safety for the workers, protective gears must be used. If a worker is working welding related work then he should use goggles for his eyes protection and if they are working in warehouse then they should wear hard hats for the protection. The main aim of the study is to find the present safety measures used in the factory premises with reference to Synergy Innovation. The company is into manufacturing of commercial refrigeration products to the market. The population for this research study is 142.In this regards 55 questionnaires were asked to the employees working in the company. The study also involves the examination of the factors like safety measures, safety training, and awareness of safety. Result of the present study explains that there is significant relationship between overall safety measures and safety training. This is the main hypothesis of present research is confirmed.