One-Year Incidence of Occupational Injuries among Teenagers in a Swedish Rural Municipality

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Jacobsson ◽  
Lothar Schelp
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Time Work ◽  
One Year

The aim of this study was to investigate occupational injuries among teenagers in a defined population and geographical area with regard to incidence and severity and to compare our registration system with that of the Swedish Occupational Injury Information System. All occupational accidents in the age group 15–19 years were registered at public health centres. We found a higher incidence compared to school accidents in the same age group as well as in relation to occupational accidents in the older population. Part-time work, lack of experience, temporary employment, unskilled work, and age-specific behavioural patterns are factors that might explain the higher incidence rate. The highest rates were found in service, military and unspecified occupations. Only 25 % of the work-related accidents in our study were registered by the Swedish Occupational Injury System (ISA). It seems possible to reduce the number of accidents through the instigation of fairly simple measures. The coverage of the registration by the ISA seems to be incomplete.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Prevalence and Risk Factors of Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Technicians of Surgery

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Seyyedeh Haniyeh Mousavibaghi ◽  
◽  
Kamran Ezzati ◽  
Mahmood Abedinzade ◽  
Sadegh MoshtaghiKoojel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Body Regions ◽  
Check Method ◽  
One Year

Background: Musculoskeletal disorders are among the prevalent occupational injuries and disabilities in developing countries. Objectives: The current study was conducted to determine the prevalence and risk factors of musculoskeletal disorders among surgery technicians. Materials & Methods: samples (n=179) of this analytical and cross-sectional study were selected using a census method among the surgical technicians who had at least one year of work experience. The disorders of different parts of their bodies were evaluated by Nordic questionnaire, and the risk of catching the musculoskeletal disorders was assessed using quick exposure check method. Statistical analyses were done in SPSS V. 16. Results: According to the Nordic questionnaire, the most prevalent work-related disorders in the past year were found in the back (71.5%), neck (57%), wrist (50.8%), and shoulder (49.7%) of the study subjects. The quick exposure check results showed that the level of exposure to musculoskeletal risks was in action level one for 32.4% of the surgery technicians, and action level three for 33% of them. This study showed associations between the prevalence of work-related symptoms in different body regions and some individual and occupational characteristics (P<0.05). Conclusion: The prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) is high among surgical technicians and lumbar disorders are the most common types. Risk factors for MSDs include undesirable physical posture, weight, time spent for shifting loads, excessive force applied by one or both hands at work, working speed, and staff stress levels. among near half of the studied surgical technicians, there were high and very high risks for injury, indicating the vulnerable condition and environment of this job.

Transitions from part-time unemployment: Is part-time work a dead end or a stepping stone to the labour market?

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Månsson ◽  
Jan Ottosson
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Stepping Stone ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Part Time Work

This article analyses the effects of individual characteristics on the probability of leaving part-time unemployment. The results show that it cannot be unreservedly asserted that part-time work offers access to the core labour market. Among the part-time unemployed, there are great variations in the degree to which they are likely to leave part-time unemployment. A concentration of labour market policy activities on the part-time unemployed who are least likely to succeed in finding full-time employment can, therefore, be expected to have positive consequences from both equity and efficiency points of view. In this respect, part-time unemployed women, persons with work-related disabilities and persons with temporary employment come to the forefront. The article shows that the likelihood of finding a full-time job is certainly not great for persons belonging to these groups. For many of them, part-time job is not a stepping stone but rather a dead end on the labour market.

scholarly journals The Prevalence of Occupational Injuries and Associated Risk Factors among Workers in Bahir Dar Textile Share Company, Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Destaw Damtie ◽  
Abraraw Siraj
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Northwest Ethiopia ◽  
Bahir Dar ◽  
Job Category ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One ◽  
Associated Risk Factors ◽  
Intensive Work

Introduction. Occupational injuries are occurrences arising out of, or in the course of, work which results in a fatal or nonfatal injury, e.g., a fall from a height or contact with moving machines. They pose psychological, behavioral, social, vocational, and economic problems. No previous studies have been conducted on the prevalence and associated risk factors of occupational injuries among workers in Bahir Dar Textile Share Company (SC). Therefore, this study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated risk factors of occupational injury in Bahir Dar Textile SC, Northwest Ethiopia. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted among employees of Bahir Dar Textile SC in 2019. Three hundred (195 males and 105 females) employees were selected using proportional simple random sampling from the spinning, weaving, finishing, engineering, and administration sections. Results. The one-year and the two-week occupational injury prevalences were 42.7% and 6.7%, respectively. The one-year report from all the respondents shows that abrasion (10.7%) and eye injury (7.7%) were the two top injuries, hands (12.7%) and eyes (7.7%) were the top injured body parts, and machines (22.7%) and falling/slipping (6.3%) caused most injuries. Statistically significant differences in injuries (p<0.05) were observed due to variations in gender, job category, exposure to vibration, exposure to rays/welding sparks, and labor-intensive work. The weaving section was positively associated with occupational injuries at AOR = 4.497 and p=0.05. Conclusions. Occupational injuries prevalence is high over the last year. The major causes of injuries were machines and falling/slipping, while the major injuries were abrasions, eye injuries, sprains, and burns. The factors significantly associated with occupational injuries were male gender, job category, use of vibrating tools, high intensive work, and rays/welding sparks. Occupational safety and health training, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and shifting employees from intensive works are recommended.

Occupational injury in Swedish fishery: 1. Analysis of injury statistics

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-89
Author(s):  
Marianne T\"orner ◽  
Per-Olov Nordling
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Permanent Disability ◽  
Repair Work ◽  
Trawl Fishing ◽  
Common Activity ◽  
Serious Injury ◽  
Yearly Rate

The purpose of the present study was to make a thorough inventory of all serious accidents in Swedish fishery, reported to the Swedish Labour Market No-fault Liability Insurance, July 1983--June 1995 (431 cases, corresponding to a yearly rate of 12 per 1000 fishermen). No age group was over represented among the victims of such serious accidents. The most accident-prone activity was hauling of the trawl and the most common contacts in connection to this were getting jammed by a wire or hit by a falling object/receiving a blow by an object. The second most common activity at the time of accident was repair work/work by the wharf, often connected to the contacts pricks or cuts or falls. Falls to the same level was the most common contact over all, followed by falls to a lower level. The most frequent mechanism behind the accidents was working in an exposed position, and second most common was slipping. Hands and wrists were most commonly injured. The median value for sick listing due to serious injury in occupational accidents in fishery, was 48 days. Approximately one third of the victims suffered permanent disability (mean degree 7%). Trawl fishing was over represented in serious accidents. Half of the accidents occurred on deck. January had the highest portion of accidents (14%) followed by October and November (10% each). The most accident-prone time of day was 9.30--10.30 am.

scholarly journals Investigation of Registered Work-related Accidents for Urban Sanitation Workers of Kashan Municipality from 2015 to 2018

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad CHAVOSHI ◽  
Fahimeh KARAMALI ◽  
Habiballah RAHIMI ◽  
Alireza MORAVVEJI ◽  
Mostafa POUYAKIAN
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Urban Sanitation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Hands And Feet ◽  
Sanitation Workers

Introduction: Urban sanitation workers, including waste disposal workers and street cleaners, are exposed to a wide range of occupational hazards and accidents. No study regarding such accidents has been carried out so far in Kashan city. Therefore, the incidents that occurred for this group of workers at the Kashan municipality from 2015 to 2018 were examine in this study. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. Demographic data and injury data were collected through periodic medical examination reports of workers who were injured in a work-related accident during the period of this study. Also, official accident forms completed by authorities were used for gathering information about the accidents. Descriptive and analytical statistics were utilized to analyze data. Results: Two out of 95 occupational accidents resulted in death. Garbage collection workers (69.5%) had the highest amount of accidents. Among those, individuals who were involved in accidents, those who had work experience of one year (45.26%), those who had primary school education (43.2%), those having two children (32.6%), and were in the age group of 30 to 39 years had the highest number of accidents. The most common cause and type of accidents were the sharp objects injuries into hands and feet (26.3%) and sprains/strains (50.5%). Most accidents injured limbs (hands and feet). There was a statistically significant correlation between the cause and effect of accidents (P = 0.001). Conclusion: The results demonstrated that urban sanitation workers suffer from occupational injuries more commonly from bruises and sprains/strains that require medical interventions. The application of personal protective equipment (PPE) is widely accepted as an essential factor in preventing occupational injuries. Therefore, the application of this equipment is recommended.  

CLASSIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONAL INJURY CASES USING THE REGRESSION TREE APPROACH

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 171-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALESSANDRO PERSONA ◽  
DARIA BATTINI ◽  
MAURIZIO FACCIO ◽  
MAURIZIO BEVILACQUA ◽  
FILIPPO EMANUELE CIARAPICA
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Regression Tree ◽  
Parametric Modeling ◽  
Classification And Regression Tree ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Injury Data ◽  
Non Parametric

Occupational safety and illness surveillance has made a great effort to spread a "safety culture" to all workplaces and a great deal of progress has been made in finding solutions that guarantee safer working conditions.This paper analyses occupational injury data in order to identify specific risk groups and factors that in turn could be further analyzed to define prevention measures. A technique based on rule induction is put forward as a non-parametric alternative tool for analyzing occupational injury data which specifically uses the Classification And Regression Tree (CART) approach. Application of this technique to relevant work-related injury data collected in Italy has been encouraging. Data referring to 156 cases of injury in the period 2000–2002 were analyzed and lead to the factors that most affect work-related injuries being identified. According to the literature, up to the time of writing computer-intensive non-parametric modeling procedures have never been used to analyze occupational injuries. The aim of this paper is to use a real world application to illustrate the advantages and flexibility of applying a typical non-parametric epidemiological tool, such as CART, to an occupational injury study. This application can provide more informative, flexible, and attractive models identifying potential risk areas in support of decision-making in safety management.

One-Year Incidence of Occupational Accidents in a Rural Swedish Municipality

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 197-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lothar Schelp ◽  
Leif Svanström
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Industrial Accidents ◽  
Intervention Programme ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Significant Difference

A continuous all embracing registration of acute, in-patient and out-patient visits at hospitals and primary health care centres, has been conducted since 1978 in Skaraborg County in western Sweden. A special focus has been directed at accident cases which account for 20% of the total number of acute visits. The accidents have been divided up by environment: home, work, traffic and other. Cases of work-related accidents have been mapped out in more detail with the help of standardized and structured surveys via telephone interviews, information from hospital records, and death certificates. This study aims at achieving increased understanding and knowledge about the accident pattern in the working environment in a municipality. This mapping of cases of work-related accidents in a defined population is also a part of evaluation of an intervention programme. Such a comprehensive community-oriented intervention programme has never been reported before. A total of 20 440 inhabitants in the municipality were registered in health and medical care centres over a six-year period because of injuries. Out of this total, 3 729 or 18.2% occurred on the job. A significant over-representation of work-related accidents existed for men, those in the 16–34 year age group, and those in manufacturing or farming. High incidences of industrial accidents were concentrated in the months of August through November. The most common types of injuries were to the eyes, or from crushes, falls, cuts, or punctures from sharp or piercing objects. In reference to accident frequency, type of injury, degree of severity, hospitalization, or sick-listing, there was no significant difference found to exist between accident cases in firms with occupational health and those without. A comparison of our registration system for work-related injuries with the central official statistics of Sweden reveals a substantial under-reporting of work-related accidents in the latter. Consequently, a need exists for the registering of accidents on the local level as a base-line for the intervention programme as well as the evaluation of the effects.

scholarly journals Farm worker injuries on Western Cape fruit farms: The role of the Lay Health Worker

Curationis ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Marais ◽  
A Kritzinger
Keyword(s):  
Injury Severity ◽  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Injury Rate ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Work Related ◽  
History Of ◽  
One Year

Aim and method: An exploratory and descriptive study to obtain basic data on the extent, nature, sources and severity of injuries sustained on fruit farms was conducted. The possibility of utilizing lay health workers (LHWs) on farms to document routine information on injuries was also investigated. Descriptive information of all injuries occurring on selected farms, both occupational and other, needing some form of treatment, were documented over a one-year period from June 1999 to May 2000. A purposive non-probability sampling method was used. Forty-eight fruit farms with a history of trained LHWs were purposefully selected. Injuries were documented using a one-page questionnaire. Results: A total of 500 injuries were recorded, giving an average of 10.4 injuries per farm per year. Half of these injuries were work-related. Workers aged 20-39 were most at risk. Injuries sustained were related to routine activities of fruit farming, occurred mostly in the orchards and involved cuts, bruises and abrasions to the hands, including the fingers, and the eyes. Most of the non-work related injuries occurred in and around the home. A third of these injuries were sustained by persons <20. A large percentage of the non-work related injuries were violence- and alcohol related. Most of the injuries required basic primary health care that could be managed by the LHW. Injury severity caused people to take time off for one third of the cases. Conclusion: A relatively high occupational injury rate in comparison to high-income countries. Occupational Health and Safety legislation needs to be institutionalized and adhered to. Alcohol and violence on farms is a serious public health problem. LHWs could potentially play an important role in documenting injury data.

scholarly journals Evaluation of a Passive Upper-Limb Exoskeleton Applied to Assist Farming Activities in Fruit Orchards

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 757
Author(s):  
Hsien-Min Wang ◽  
Dang Khanh Linh Le ◽  
Wei-Chih Lin
Keyword(s):  
Upper Limb ◽  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Muscle Tension ◽  
Physical Exertion ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Upper Limb Exoskeleton ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Fruit Orchards ◽  
Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorder

Work-related musculoskeletal disorder (WMSD) is a common occupational injury. Among the occupational injuries of agricultural workers, 93% are related to WMSD, with the shoulder being the second most affected area. This paper presents a passive upper-limb exoskeleton (PULE) with a gas spring and four-bar mechanism developed to aid the daily activities associated with orchard farming. The PULE is used to assist the arm-lifting process, reducing the physical exertion of farmers and the risk of developing WMSD. Electromyography (EMG) measurements of 26 participants were obtained to evaluate the difference in physical exertion with and without the PULE. Two arm activities: fruit thinning, with the arms raised and maintained at 100°, and pesticide spraying, with the hands swinging from 0° to 100° and back, were simulated. Using the PULE decreased muscle tension of the anterior deltoid (AD) by 17.64–19.86%. The PULE also decreased the AD activity by 37.67–39.57% during the actual orchard farming operations. The Qualisys motion capture system indicated that the difference in the lifting angle of the upper limb with and without the PULE was less than 1° and not significant (α > 0.05). Thus, the PULE did not affect the flexibility of the wearer in orchard farming activities.

scholarly journals Prevalence and Determinants of Occupational Injuries among Solid Waste Collectors of Zoomlion Ghana Limited

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Patrick Ephraim ◽  
Judith Koryo Stephens ◽  
Gustavus A. Myers-Hansen ◽  
Richard Y. Otwey ◽  
Samuel Amon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background. Globally, occupational injuries account for 15% of the mortalities associated with occupational accidents. The work of the solid waste collectors exposes them to numerous occupational hazards, which results in injuries. Increasing rates of occupational injuries from 43.7% to 63.9% among solid waste collectors in sub-Saharan Africa opens room for more research to be done. The study assessed the magnitude of occupational injuries and associated factors among solid waste collectors of Zoomlion Ghana Limited in the Accra Metropolis. Methods. A cross-sectional quantitative study was carried out among the solid waste collectors. The occupational injuries and their associated factors among the solid waste collectors were assessed using questionnaires. Multistage sampling approach was used to select study respondents. Data were collected through the administration of questionnaires. Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression was used to assess the association between the dependent and independent variables. Results. In this study, 21.79% (78/358) with 95% CI (0.1749, 0.2608) among the solid waste collectors reported having at least one work-related injury in the last 6 months. The factors that were significantly associated with at least one occupational injury among the solid waste collectors in the Accra Metropolis were work duty (collection and transportation), the zone of assignment for respondents, and lack of personal protective equipment (PPE). Conclusion. This study showed that the prevalence of occupational injuries among municipal solid waste collectors in the Accra Metropolis was lower as compared to similar research conducted in Ethiopia, Egypt, and India. Working in the collection and transportation category and lack of PPE for use at work were significantly and positively associated with occupational injury among the solid waste collectors. Again, working in the La Dade Kotopon zone had reduced odds of sustaining injuries as compared to those in the Ablekuma South zone. The result of the study demonstrated that cuts/puncture was the injury that was mostly sustained by the municipal solid waste workers, while the leg was the body part that was mostly injured followed by the hands. Public health education in the municipality should target solid waste collectors with the aim of improving their health-seeking behaviour.

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