The Impact of Quality Engineering Processes on Improving Occupational Health and Safety Requirements for Civil Defense Personnel in Ninawa Province: A Case Study
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The current study sought to determine the impact of quality engineering processes in enhancing occupational health and safety requirements in the Nineveh Civil Defense Directorate. The study adopted in its conceptual framework the subject of quality engineering processes as an independent variable, in addition to addressing the subject of occupational health and safety requirements as a dependent variable. After crystallizing the conceptual framework and reviewing previous related research efforts, a hypothetical diagram was developed that reflects the nature of the correlation and influence relationships. And main hypotheses were formulated to be tested in the Nineveh Civil Defense Directorate through the use of ready-made programs (SPSS Ver.21) and (Amos Ver.24) in order to diagnose the relationship between quality engineering processes and occupational health and safety requirements. While the study sample will be officers and members of the Civil Defense Directorate of Nineveh Governorate, numbering approximately (1000) individuals between officers, members and employees, and in order to achieve a deeper understanding of this role, the researcher adopted the descriptive analytical approach in light of the adoption of a set of tools in collecting data and information represented by the questionnaire form in addition to personal interviews and field visits to a sample consisting of (278) respondents. The study problem appears in two parts: the first (intellectual) is represented by the lack of studies that have defined quality engineering processes and the lack of agreed-upon processes, and the speech is also drawn to the requirements of occupational health and safety and then revealing the statistical relationship between these two variables. The second part (field) is represented by the obsolescence of occupational health and safety procedures and practices in the field under study, which requires searching for improvement procedures to rediscover these practices and diagnose ways to manage and improve them with quality engineering. The study reached a set of results, the most important of which is to direct the attention of the administrative leadership in the Nineveh Civil Defense Directorate to the importance of adopting and adopting the concepts of quality engineering within the framework of improving its field practices. One of the most important proposals addressed by the study relates to improving the practices of the Nineveh Civil Defense Directorate for the four main operations of civil defense, which are (firefighting, rescue, treatment, CBRN).
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