The role of occupational safety and health and securing the work environment in rationalizing government spending in local administrations

Document Type : Review Article

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1 Post Grad. Student, Faculty of Environmental Studies and Research, Ain Shams University

2 Faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams University

3 Institute of Social Work in Cairo

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Rationalization of government spending is an international trend for most developing countries to keep pace with economic fluctuations. The rationalization of government spending is not only in reducing expenditures, but also in the optimal use of available resources, and assistance in increasing revenues.
The local administrations in the Arab Republic of Egypt suffer from some shortcomings in applying the requirements of occupational safety and health and securing the work environment, at the level of training workers, applying these requirements, or spreading the culture associated with this, which has a negative impact on the rationalization of government spending. The applied of this study is the descriptive analytical approach to a sample of (400 individuals) working in some local administrations in Sohag Governorate. A questionnaire was distributed to the sample under study and some explanations were provided by the researchers.
The study reached the following conclusion: There is a statistically significant relationship between rationalizing government spending, activating a culture of occupational safety and health, and securing the work environment. The work contained in the fifth book of Labor Law No. 12 of 2003, and the establishment of an occupational safety and health administration in all local administrations or a group administration in each governorate, and occupational safety and health officials are distributed to each local administration, and the necessity of activating the principle of punishment and punishment for all workers in local administrations and other recommendations.

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Journal of Environmental Science
Volume 51, Issue 5 - Serial Number 5
Part 3: Environmental Economics, Law
May 2022
Pages 173-209

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