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An Overview of Construction Occupational Accidents in Hong Kong: A Recent Trend and Future Perspectives

Applied Sciences, 2019
The construction industry is infamous for a high number of fatalities around the world. The Hong Kong construction industry is also one of the most hazardous industries for worker’s safety compared to all other industries.
Muhammad Shafique, Muhammad Rafiq
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The value of structured occupational safety data and cluster analysis: A case study from the Italian National Surveillance System

Journal of Safety Science and Resilience
The collection and analysis of accident data are crucial steps towards the application of effective preventive measures in the occupational safety context. The analysis of work-related accidents/injuries is a focal starting point for improving the safety
Armando Guglielmi, Antonio Leva, Mauro Pellicci, Maria Grazia Gnoni, Fabiana Tornese   +4 more
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Occupational Accidents Assessment by Field of Activity and Investigation Model for Prevention and Control

Safety, 2019
The rate of occupational accidents is increasing, leading to a number of organizational deficiencies. For European Union (EU), the non-fatal accident number in 2017 was 3,315,101.
Larisa-Victoria Ivașcu, L. Cioca
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Gender differences in lost work days due to occupational accidents

Safety Science, 2019
Objective We report the relationship between duration of sick leave due to occupational injury and worker gender. We also examine the relationship between certain independent variables and duration of sick leave, including age, type of work, place of ...
Ignacio Fontaneda, Miguel A. Camino López, O. J. González Alcántara, D. O. Ritzel   +3 more
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Accounting for Health and Safety costs: Review and comparison of selected methods [PDF]

A part of the emerging sustainability management accounting is corporate health and safety performance. One performance dimension is the costs of occupational accidents in companies.
Rikhardsson, Pall
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From climate change to occupational risks: the vulnerability of the fisheries sector to climatic accidents

With the increase in global average temperature due to climate change, a large number of workers are exposed to high-temperature working environments.
Alsaleh, Mohd, Abdul-Rahim, A. S., Xia, Tian   +2 more
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Analysis of occupational accidents in the construction industry with regards to selected time parameters

Open Engineering, 2019
The construction industry is characterized by a large variety and variability of implementation conditions. Construction works are carried out throughout the whole calendar year under varying atmospheric conditions, both during the day and also during ...
M. Szóstak
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Evaluation of the Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Occupational Accidents in Nurses [PDF]

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate sleep quality in nurses and to investigate the relationship between poor sleep quality and occupational accidents.
Çıray, Nazmiye, Nazmiye Çıray, Mehmet Sezai Taşbakan, Hülya Keskin, Toreyın, Nur, Basoglu, Ozen K, Zehra Nur Töreyin, Tasbakan, Mehmet Sezai, Özen Kaçmaz Başoğlu, Keskın, Hulya, Toreyin, Zehra Nur   +10 more
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Precarious employment and occupational accidents and injuries - a systematic review.

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, 2018
Objectives Precarious employment conditions have become more common in many countries over the last decades, and have been linked to various adverse health outcomes.
Isa Koranyi, J. Jonsson, Torkel Rönnblad, Leo Stockfelt, T. Bodin   +4 more
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Road traffic accidents and injuries through the analysis of the Italian hospital discharge records: preliminary results

Safety and Health at Work, 2022
Agnese Martini, Emma Pietrafesa, Alessandro Marinaccio, Michela Bonafede   +3 more
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