ABSTRACT
Cement industry is one of the industries containing various hazards and high risk activities which can potentially lead to occupational accidents. The objectives of this research were to (1) analyze the high risk activities in cement manufacturing which potentially lead to occupational accidents; (2) use the Pareto principle in order to define key hazards which were analyzed based on specific incidents and hazards in Holcim Vietnam Cement Company; (3) recommend appropriate approaches to prevent occupational accidents in cement industry. In this research, all accidents, near-misses and hazards statistics in a six-year period from 2011 to 2016 at one cement plant and three cement grinding plants belong to Holcim Vietnam Cement Company were collected, analyzed and defined key hazard categories based on Pareto approach. The Pareto charts were used to show the hazard categories accounted for 80 percent in the total hazards which were occurred and mainly caused occupational accidents in cement industry. Finally, the control approaches of the critical hazards in cement industry were recommended by applying risk management process.
