Determinants of occupational accidents in the woodworking sector: the case of the Malaysian wooden furniture industry

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Determinants of occupational accidents in the woodworking sector: the case of the Malaysian wooden furniture industry

Studies on occupational accidents in the value-added wood products industry, particularly the wooden furniture industry is grossly lacking. Therefore, the risk factors for injuries to workers in the Malaysian wooden furniture industry were studied in fifty wood-furniture manufacturing factories, usi...

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Main Authors:	Ratnasingam, Jegatheswaran, Ioras, Florin, Swan, T. T., Yoon, C. Y., Thanasegaran, Ganesh
Format:	Article
Published:	Asian Network for Scientific Information 2011
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13946/

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