Previous studies have shown that industrial accidents are closely
related to the prevailing work environment and tasks carried
out (Cooper, 2000; Clarke, 2006b; Das et al., 2008), and factors such
as: (i) prevailing environment, (ii) nature of work, (iii) handling,
(iv) ergonomic, (v) machine, (vi) training, (vii) maintenance, (viii)
plant layout, (ix) workers characteristics and (x) safety climate
and the risk posed by each of these factors may vary from factory
to factory