A study on Employee Safety with special reference to Ashok Leyland Pvt Ltd, Hosur, Krishnagiri district

Abstract

This study is an outcome of the title called “A study on Effectiveness of Employees Safety and Health” with reference to Ashok Leyland company which has undertaken at Ashok Leyland. Employees Safety and Health look upon prevention of accidents basically as an engineering problem to be tackled through proper designing of mechanical safety devices. In fact, accident prevention and safety are inter related and, therefore require a multi dimensional approach. Its importance has increased because of large-scale industrialization in which human beings are subjected to mechanical, chemical, electrical and radiation hazards. .” Totalpopulation is 369; from that 100 employees were selected using simple random sampling method and a well structured questionnaire was framed in order to extract the required information from the respondents. Questionnaires were collected through personal interview. the various statistical tools like percentage method, chi square test and correlation analysis were used in this study. The findings of the study reveal that major cause for the work place accident is unsafe handling of material.So the vestibule training method can be included in employee training program. Ergonomics method enables better employees safety and health. Keywords: Employees Safety, prevention of accidents, importance,