Study of Factors that Sway Industrial Accident Occurrence in the Oil And Gas Industry

Abstract

Industrial accident occurrence appears to be unending and tends to
correlate majorly with human factors and workplace conditions.
There are several factors that influences the occurrence of industrial
accidents. Unfortunately, many organizations incidentally do not
understand explicitly the role each of these factors play individually,
collectively and their interaction as they eminently influence accident
occurrence. This study is aimed at applying exploratory tool of
Kendall’s Coefficient of Concordance (KCC) and Principal
Component Analysis (PCA) to identify and determine factors that
influence industrial accident occurrence the most as well as to
ascertain their degree of interaction and interplay among the
identified variables and their level of significance. The principal
component analysis employed helped in achieving parsimony,
trumped four clusters from the identified 38 variables. The four
clusters were creatively labeled as work milieu consideration, wing
back affairs, behavioral tendencies and work culture. Besides, the
KCC results from the ranking of the 15 judges showed that safety
culture is the most significant factor. The four factors from the
principal component analysis data summarization unveils the
principal factors that influences industrial accident causation and
provides the frame work and enlightenment needed by managers to
whittling down industrial accidents.