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dc.contributor.authorSuleiman, Abdulqadir M.
dc.contributor.authorSvendsen, Kristin V Hirsch
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-16T11:30:13Z
dc.date.available2020-07-16T11:30:13Z
dc.date.created2015-11-26T09:07:56Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationSafety and Health at Work. 2015, 6 (4), 345-352.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2093-7911
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2669273
dc.description.abstractBackground Goal-oriented communication of risk of hazards is necessary in order to reduce risk of workers' exposure to chemicals. Adequate training of workers and enterprise priority setting are essential elements. Cleaning enterprises have many challenges and the existing paradigms influence the risk levels of these enterprises. Methods Information on organization and enterprises' prioritization in training programs was gathered from cleaning enterprises. A measure of enterprises' conceptual level of importance of chemical health hazards and a model for working out the risk index (RI) indicating enterprises' conceptual risk level was established and used to categorize the enterprises. Results In 72.3% of cases, training takes place concurrently with task performances and in 67.4% experienced workers conduct the trainings. There is disparity between employers' opinion on competence level of the workers and reality. Lower conceptual level of importance was observed for cleaning enterprises of different sizes compared with regional safety delegates and occupational hygienists. Risk index values show no difference in risk level between small and large enterprises. Conclusion Training of cleaning workers lacks the prerequisite for suitability and effectiveness to counter risks of chemical health hazards. There is dereliction of duty by management in the sector resulting in a lack of competence among the cleaning workers. Instituting acceptable easily attainable safety competence level for cleaners will conduce to risk reduction, and enforcement of attainment of the competence level would be a positive step.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleEffectuality of cleaning workers' training and cleaning enterprises' chemical health hazard risk profilingen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.source.pagenumber345-352en_US
dc.source.volume6en_US
dc.source.journalSafety and Health at Worken_US
dc.source.issue4en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.shaw.2015.10.003
dc.identifier.cristin1293465
dc.description.localcodeCopyright 2015, Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).en_US
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