Investigating Some Individual Factors Effect on the Consequence Severity of Occupational Accidents
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Abstract
Most industrial accidents are due to unsafe behaviors in the workplace. Therefore, the present study was aimed to investigate the role of individual factors on the consequence of accidents. This descriptive-analytical study was carried out based on data obtained from 1048 accidents registered in the Labor Inspection Office of one of the industrial provinces of Iran. In this study, individual factors were extracted from accident reporting forms and analyzed by SPSS software version 18. In the current study, the results showed that the least number of accidents was related to employee who had a bachelor degree or above. Of 95% reported fatalities were male and 73% of them were married. The results of statistical test showed that there is a significant relationship between outcome type and marital status (p <0.001). It was also found that the employees under 30 years old had the highest number of minor injuries and death. Fisher test showed a significant relationship between age and outcome (p <0.001). All minor, major injuries and death cases occurred among workers with less than 5 years of work experience. Also the workers with 25-30 years of work experience had the lowest percentage of accidents. The results of Chi-square test showed no significant relationship between outcome type and work experience (p <0.001). Individual factors such as gender, citizenship, age group, marital status, educational level, work experience and related work experience have an important role in the frequency and severity of accidents in industries.
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2. Salehi M, Imani M, Zayeri F, Vahabi N, Pirhosseini H, Arji M. Bayesian model for work-related accidents in Iran: 2009. Journal of Health Administration. 2019;16(51):30-42.
3. Takala J. Global estimates of fatal occupational accidents. Epidemiology-Baltimore. 1999;10(5):640-6.
4. Ivascu L, Cioca L-I. Occupational accidents assessment by field of activity and investigation model for prevention and control. Safety. 2019;5(1):12.
5. García-Herrero S, Mariscal M, García-Rodríguez J, Ritzel DO. Working conditions, psychological/physical symptoms and occupational accidents. Bayesian network models. Safety science. 2012;50(9):1760-74.
6. Jacinto C, Aspinwall E. A survey on occupational accidents’ reporting and registration systems in the European Union. Safety Science. 2004;42(10):933-60.
7. Hämäläinen P, Saarela KL, Takala J. Global trend according to estimated number of occupational accidents and fatal work-related diseases at region and country level. Journal of safety research. 2009;40(2):125-39.
8. Castillo-Rosa J, Suárez-Cebador M, Rubio-Romero JC, Aguado JA. Personal factors and consequences of electrical occupational accidents in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. Safety science. 2017;91:286-97.
9. Smith TD, DeJoy DM. Occupational injury in America: An analysis of risk factors using data from the General Social Survey (GSS). Journal of safety research. 2012;43(1):67-74.
10. Melamed S, Yekutieli D, Froom P, Kristal-Boneh E, Ribak J. Adverse Work and Environmental Conditions Predict Occupational Injuries. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2009;150(1).
11. Maiti J, Bhattacherjee A, Bangdiwala SI. Loglinear model for analysis of cross-tabulated coal mine injury data. Injury control and safety promotion. 2001;8(4):229-36.
12. Bastide J. Accidentabilité au travail selon l'âge. Cahiers de Notes Documentaires. 1994;156:361-4.
13. McCaig L, Burt C, Stussman B. A comparison of work-related injury visits and other injury visits to emergency departments in the United States, 1995-1996. Occupational Health and Industrial Medicine. 1999;2(40):76.
14. Froom P, Melamed S, Kristal-Boneh E. Industrial accidents are related to relative body weight: The Israel CORDIS study. Occupational Health and Industrial Medicine. 1997;4(36):162.
15. Stoohs RA, Guilleminault C, Itoi A, Dement WC. Traffic accidents in commercial long-haul truck drivers: the influence of sleep-disordered breathing and obesity. Sleep. 1994;17(7):619-23.
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17. Gauchard GC, Chau N, Touron C, Benamghar L, Dehaene D, Perrin P, et al. Individual characteristics in occupational accidents due to imbalance: a case-control study of the employees of a railway company. Occupational and environmental medicine. 2003;60(5):330-5.
18. Wells S, Macdonald S. The relationship between alcohol consumption patterns and car, work, sports and home accidents for different age groups. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 1999;31(6):663-5.
19. Chau N, Mur J-M, Benamghar L, Siegfried C, Dangelzer J-L, Francais M, et al. Relationships between some individual characteristics and occupational accidents in the construction industry. Journal of occupational health. 2002;44(3):131-9.
20. Léger D, Guilleminault C, Bader G, Lévy E, Paillard M. Medical and socio-professional impact of insomnia. Sleep. 2002;25(6):621-5.
21. Åkerstedt T, Fredlund P, Gillberg M, Jansson B. A prospective study of fatal occupational accidents–relationship to sleeping difficulties and occupational factors. Journal of sleep research. 2002;11(1):69-71.
22. Bhattacherjee A, Chau N, Sierra CO, Legras B, Benamghar L, Michaely J-P, et al. Relationships of job and some individual characteristics to occupational injuries in employed people: a community-based study. Journal of occupational health. 2003;45(6):382-91.
23. López MAC, Ritzel DO, Fontaneda I, Alcantara OJG. Construction industry accidents in Spain. Journal of safety research. 2008;39(5):497-507.
24. Davies R, Jones P, Nuñez I. The impact of the business cycle on occupational injuries in the UK. Social science & medicine. 2009;69(2):178-82.
25. Chau N, Gauchard GC, Dehaene D, Benamghar L, Touron C, Perrin PP, et al. Contributions of occupational hazards and human factors in occupational injuries and their associations with job, age and type of injuries in railway workers. International archives of occupational and environmental health. 2007;80(6):517-25.
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27. de la Fuente VS, López MAC, González IF, Alcántara OJG, Ritzel DO. The impact of the economic crisis on occupational injuries. Journal of safety research. 2014;48:77-85.
28. Chau N, Dehaene D, Benamghar L, Bourgkard E, Mur JM, Touron C, et al. Roles of age, length of service and job in work‐related injury: A prospective study of 63,620 person‐years in female workers. American journal of industrial medicine. 2014;57(2):172-83.
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30. Li S, Xueqiu H, Li C. Longitudinal relationship between economic development and occupational accidents in China. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 2011;43(1):82-6.
31. Jo B, Lee Y, Kim J, Khan R. Trend analysis of construction industrial accidents in Korea from 2011 to 2015. Sustainability. 2017;9(8):1297.
32. Chi C-F, Yang C-C, Chen Z-L. In-depth accident analysis of electrical fatalities in the construction industry. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics. 2009;39(4):635-44.
33. Salminen S. Have young workers more injuries than older ones? An international literature review. Journal of safety research. 2004;35(5):513-21.
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Biabani A, Zokaie M, Falahati M, Ziamanesh S. Investigating Some Individual Factors Effect on the Consequence Severity of Occupational Accidents. Int J Occup Hyg. 2020;12(1):50-59.
