Effect of Weather Conditions and Transactions Records on Work Accidents in the Retail Sector – A Case Study

Weather change plays an important role in work-related accidents, it impairs people’s cognitive abilities, increasing the risk of injuries and accidents. Furthermore, weather conditions can cause an increase or decrease in daily sales in the retail sector by influencing individual behaviors. The increase in transactions, in turn, leads employees to fatigue and overload, which can also increase the risk of injuries and accidents. This work aims to conduct a case study in a company in the retail sector to verify whether the transactions records in stores and the weather conditions of each district in mainland Portugal impact the occurrence of work accidents, as well as to perform predictive analysis of the occurrence or non-occurrence of work accidents in each district using these data and comparing different machine learning techniques. The correlation analysis of the occurrence or non-occurrence of work accidents with weather conditions and some transactions pointed out the nonexistence of correlation between the data. Evaluating the precision and the confusion matrix of the predictive models, the study indicates a predisposition of the models to predict the non-occurrence of work accidents to the detriment of the ability to predict the occurrence of work accidents.

Keywords

Predictive Analysis Correlation Analysis Weather Conditions Transactions Records

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10198/30341

Citation

Borges, Lucas D.; Sena, Inês; Marcelino, Vitor; Silva, Felipe G.; Fernandes, Florbela P.; Pacheco, Maria F.; Vaz, Clara B.; Lima, José; Pereira, Ana I. (2024). Effect of Weather Conditions and Transactions Records on Work Accidents in the Retail Sector – A Case Study. In 3rd International Conference on Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications (OL2A 2023). Cham: Springer Nature, Vol. 1, p. 34–48. ISBN 978-3-031-53024-1.