This is a research for the ongoing development in DEWA industry. This research aims at proving the limitation in the current DEWA issues and gives the final solution to the problems within the industry. The research increases the knowledge of the industry and proves that the limitation can be solved. Due to the increased related issues in the water and electricity sector in the whole world, it found it right to relate the worldwide issues together with the related factors in the DEWA industry (Murthy et al. 21).
Findings
The following are the problems related to health in the DEWA region. The research found that the area around the region of UAE has a lot of hard water. The research indicated that hard water needs close attention when boiling it. In addition, most of the breakdown related problems within the past years related to the increase in water hardness. Most of the cases of water hardness can result to higher damage cost within the company or even within the staffs of the Dubai electricity and water authority. With the compensation of workers being high, there is efficiency when people receive training on the risks facing them within the company to decrease the rate of breakdown. This reduced the rate of compensation that the insurance companies will ask for from the related survey conducted with the America Water Works Association (World Bank 5).
The research found out that water related industries have a higher occurrence of injuries than that of the other companies. Hence, the fact that as an organization dealing with the water project as a background should be part of reducing the injuries. There are many ways of doing this such as starting or establishing prevention programs within the industry that evaluates the injury cost. The other related means of reducing such kind of injuries is by establishing a technique that will prevent back injuries.
The research found out that most of the people tend to have back injuries when they are working for water industry (Finkelstein and Greenberg 33). The other proposal was to come up with different kinds of mechanisms within the industry that will understand various ways of integrity within the water system. With regard to the design of working within the water industry, it found it better to come up with new operations. The new technologies would reduce the working posture of a man within the industry and hence reduce such cases. This is to change the old way of technology in the water design within DEWA. From the research, most of the people working within the water industries mostly had symptoms related to the spinal cord (Block 27).
From my research, I have found out that most of the cases result from industrial injuries. The likely injuries to be stated are like cervical, thoracic and lastly lumbar (Oakley et al. 47). From the medical point of view the Penn state medical centre advices from his research and gives the following results.
Any injury related to the spine requires urgent attention from the organization. Regular scan on every staff in the organization done on weekly or monthly basis to determine the condition of the staff after and before the work in order to keep the staff from any health related issue in future. With the provision of early treatment of any staff that have any spinal trauma it reduce the chance of one having a long-term problem in his/her health. The other way to reduce such kind of occurrence was to establish an agency that will be teaching the staffs on good ways of operating within the premises of water. I found out that it would be very essential for the people working in DEWA to receive training from the team doctors of the industry about the symptoms related to spine trauma to reduce the health problem (Mazelike and Raman 35).
Below Is a SWOT Table.
Recommendations
The budget cost for this when implemented will assist in the provision of work within DEWA. This is because; mostly the services offered to the company will be good as compared to when a staff is injured (Fountoulakis 47). Putting this in place assists the budget cost of DEWA because; it will reduce the cost of insurance treating a staff of DEWA in a long term injury and save the cost of operation by nearly half. This is because; it is expensive to treat a staff in DEWA for a long-term injury than to prevent him from such injuries.
The policy review of the medical of DEWA needs changes to accommodate such findings. With regard to the UAE findings, it takes a third percent of the world water per capita. (Murthy et al. 55) This means that there are many employees in the water sector that have such kind of problem considering that, we have already seen it in the above research.
The other problem affecting the various industries operating in electricity was the exposure to magnetic fields and electric fields. With regard to the DEWA staff, they all risk exposure to the so-called electric fields. In fact, research by world organization health in recent surveys shows this. It found out that most of the people who get exposure to such kind of fields end up having ventricular fibrillation.
This is just not the case because; it indicated in its research that the persons exposed to such kind of fields could also have arrhythmia also referred as irregular heart beat. This kind of health cases have been seen to be life threatening in other countries. Static field threatens the life of people and animals with people taking research seriously in the past few years (Greenberg et al. 17). Research found out that the exposure to static electricity affected people having implants in their bodies such as pacemakers. This affected the people who were wearing ferromagnetic or even electronic implants (Dillon and Lyndon 27).
Conclusion
The www.dewa.gov should put in place policies that will reduce static exposure to its staffs and the environment in particular. Following the standard that the World Health Organization has already set in the policy to reduce static electricity (Murthy et al. 74). This can also be done in DEWA to reduce the effect of static fields from affecting the people within the industry. This can be implemented right know before time goes. Implementation of this will mean that there will be reduction in the death of people within the industries. In addition, concerning the research, it found that 97% of the people working in the area of electricity have died. With this kind of statics in place, it shows that the staffs of DEWA might also experience the same thing. Hence, the power to introduce safety measures in the industry.
The aim of this research is to reduce the accidents in the industry and reduce the insurance profits towards the organization. With the increase in population as indicated in the UAE statistics (Adair et al. 57); the expectation is that the population is going to increase in the next few years hence need for water and electricity. Concerning this increase in population, I expect the rise in workers in the DEWA industry.
With this in view I expect that the workers will have the same risks if the measures are not considered. The conclusion is that the DEWA management will increase the policies within the industry to reduce such kind of deaths. This can be put in place early enough to prevent such incidences in future. In view that many people employed in the DEWA, pose a risk (Oakley et al. 20). It is in the UAE statistics that UAE takes like a third of the world water per capita. With this, the expectation is that water should be clean and magnesium and calcium void (Afifi et al. 25).
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