The impact of lack in occupational health and safety implementation in small businesses

Sebonkile Cynthia Thaba; Charles Mbohwa

The impact of lack in occupational health and safety implementation in small businesses

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Abstract

Occupational health and safety has a major impact on the development and sustainability of small and medium business. The paper is indicating the effects that come with implementing the occupational and health safety act. The study was conducts in four industrial parks that are situated in Gauteng Province namely, Olando industria, Westo Park Indusdria, Lake Side Industrial Park and Majuba Park. Some of the name are not the exact names of the parks visited as the owners does not wants the real names of the parks to appear in the study. These parts have from 4 to 100 Small business in one industry and employees and employers in about fifty small businesses where interviewed and observed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	6th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management in Kuala Lumpur, IEOM 2016
Publisher	IEOM Society
Pages	2908-2913
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9780985549749
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	6th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management in Kuala Lumpur, IEOM 2016 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Duration: 8 Mar 2016 → 10 Mar 2016

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
Volume	8-10 March 2016
ISSN (Electronic)	2169-8767

Conference

Conference	6th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management in Kuala Lumpur, IEOM 2016
Country/Territory	Malaysia
City	Kuala Lumpur
Period	8/03/16 → 10/03/16

Keywords

Occupational Health and Safety

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Strategy and Management
Management Science and Operations Research
Control and Systems Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Thaba, S. C., & Mbohwa, C. (2016). The impact of lack in occupational health and safety implementation in small businesses. In 6th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management in Kuala Lumpur, IEOM 2016 (pp. 2908-2913). (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management; Vol. 8-10 March 2016). IEOM Society.

Thaba, Sebonkile Cynthia ; Mbohwa, Charles. / The impact of lack in occupational health and safety implementation in small businesses. 6th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management in Kuala Lumpur, IEOM 2016. IEOM Society, 2016. pp. 2908-2913 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management).

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The impact of lack in occupational health and safety implementation in small businesses. / Thaba, Sebonkile Cynthia ; Mbohwa, Charles.
6th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management in Kuala Lumpur, IEOM 2016. IEOM Society, 2016. p. 2908-2913 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management; Vol. 8-10 March 2016).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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