STUDY ON SAFETY MANAGEMENT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE INDUSTRIES IN TAMILNADU

B.Rajarethinam, A.Elavarasi

Abstract: The small and medium scale industries(SMI) have immense growth in the recent years due to the social and economical development of the country, but the safety aspects followed in the SMI are very poor, and it becomes highly risky to the employees life, so safety aspects in SMI requires huge amount of improvement. In this thesis we propose a behavior of small and medium scale industry for safety management approach and analysis of its characteristics in Tamilnadu and also suggesting modern safety Equipments to reduce the accident rate and incident rate of SMI, highlighting the safety awareness in SMI from the management level to the employee in order to improve the safety management in SMIs.

Keywords: Safety Behavior, Safety Culture, Safety Performance, Safety development

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0323043