Logging accidents in Sabah, Malaysia
1987
Doraisingam Manikam (Pertanian Malaysia Univ., Serdang, Selangor. Faculty of Forestry) | Josua, J. | Rusli Mohd
The logging industry in Sabah has the most frequent number of industrial accidents. This paper gives some estimates of the rate of logging accidents suggesting the need for occupational safety in the State's logging industry. A six-year data set on logging accidents was analysed statistically to identify salient features. About 87 percent of the total number of reported industrial accidents result from only four industries. The logging industry ranks the highest, accounting for 55 percent of the fatal accidents. It ranks second in terms of non-fatal accidents, accounting for nearly 30 percent. It has six times as many fatal accidents and three times as many non-fatal accidents each year. However, there is no significant trend in the number of fatal and non-fatal accidents from 1980 to 1985. A significant positive correlation exits between the number of fatal accidents and volume of log production. On the average there is one fatal accident for every 113,583 cu, m of logs produced and one non-fatal accident for every 30,373 cu m. The mean annual injury frequency rate is 18. The average annual incidence rates for fatal and non-fatal accidents are 6 and 21, respectively. No significant trend was observed for these two parameters. There is certainly a need for occupational safety in the logging industry in Sabah.
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