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Data Analysis of Workplace Accidents - A Case Study

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Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications (OL2A 2021)

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The welfare and safety of the employees of an enterprise is a great concern and priority in a responsible and successful organization. The identification of patterns of work-related accidents is important to reduce and prevent further mishaps and injuries. To improve the safety of the work environment, accidents related data must be analyzed to identify the possible risk factors and their effects on the type of accident and its level of severity. Thus, data related to workplace accidents in fishmonger stores were collected from a Portuguese retail company where it was analyzed with statistical, clustering, and classification techniques to identify potential underlying correlation and patterns between the data, and in this way, collecting important information to prevent future accident or lesions.

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This work has also been supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope UIDB/05757/2020 and project iSafety supported by Norte 2020 n. 072598. The project that gave rise to these results received the support of a fellowship from “la Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434). The fellowship code is LCF/BQ/DI20/11780028.

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  1. Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

    Inês P. Sena, João Braun & Ana I. Pereira

  2. Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    João Braun

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Sena, I.P., Braun, J., Pereira, A.I. (2021). Data Analysis of Workplace Accidents - A Case Study. In: Pereira, A.I., et al. Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications. OL2A 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1488. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91885-9_42

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