College of International Finance and Trade, Zhejiang YueXiu University of Foreign Languages, Shaoxing 312000, China.
School of Finance and Trade, Wenzhou Business College, Wenzhou 325035, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 22;19(7):3762. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19073762.
China has a large number of gas stations, with which thousands of workers are associated. There is abundant online literature documenting the various occupational health risks these workers face. However, this literature has many flaws to address, and it falls short of suggesting measures to manage these risks. This study strives to fill that gap, and aims to improve the occupational health of gas station workers through comprehensive risk management and performance analysis. To this end, a reasonable volume of reliable data, i.e., 208 completed questionnaires, were analyzed through current statistical routines, viz., fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Importance Performance Analysis (IPA). These methods were employed to hierarchically organize the main factors and sub-factors of physical risk management, chemical risk management, biological risk management, physiological risk management and psychological risk management according to their appraised importance, and screen out the risk management stratagem for priority improvement. Research findings reveal that chemical risk and biological risk response schemes have the lowest performance, and need to be prioritized for improvement. Furthermore, this study argues that we can safeguard the occupational health of gas station workers through appropriate risk management strategies. It also elaborates on implications, limitations and future research directions.
中国拥有大量的加油站，与之相关的工人数以千计。大量的在线文献记录了这些工人面临的各种职业健康风险。然而，这些文献存在许多需要解决的缺陷，也没有提出管理这些风险的措施。本研究旨在填补这一空白，通过全面的风险管理和绩效分析来改善加油站工人的职业健康。为此，通过当前的统计程序，即模糊层次分析法（AHP）和重要性绩效分析（IPA），对合理数量的可靠数据（即 208 份完整的问卷）进行了分析。这些方法用于根据评估的重要性，对物理风险管理、化学风险管理、生物风险管理、生理风险管理和心理风险管理的主要因素和子因素进行层次化组织，并筛选出需要优先改进的风险管理策略。研究结果表明，化学风险和生物风险应对方案的绩效最低，需要优先改进。此外，本研究认为，我们可以通过适当的风险管理策略来保障加油站工人的职业健康。还阐述了其意义、局限性和未来的研究方向。
