Accidents and fatal accidents—some paradoxes

Saloniemi, Antti; Oksanen, Hanna

doi:10.1016/s0925-7535(98)00016-2

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“…The first is real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita; the second is the unemployment rate; the third is average real remuneration; the fourth is the number of dwellings for which construction permits were granted per 1000 population. All 4 measures are among the most commonly used in describing economic situation; their advantage is high availability, they are easily interpretable as well as they have been used in similar contexts [6,7,20]. The remaining 2 independent variables (the percentage share of those working in accident-prone conditions and size-based enterprises structure) are control variables and are not the major focus of the study.…”

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Economic situation and occupational accidents in Poland: 2002–2014 panel data regional study

Łyszczarz

Nojszewska

2017

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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Objectives: Occupational accidents constitute a substantial health and economic burden for societies around the world and a variety of factors determine the frequency of accidents at work. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the economic situation and the rate of occupational accidents in Poland. Material and Methods: The analysis comprised data for 66 Polish sub-regions taken from the Central Statistical Office's Local Data Bank. The regression analysis with panel data for period 2002-2014 was applied to identify the relationships involved. Four measures of accidents were used: the rates of total occupational accidents, accidents among men and women separately as well as days of incapacity to work due to accidents at work per employee. Four alternative measures assessed the economic situation: gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, average remuneration, the unemployment rate and number of dwelling permits. The confounding variables included were: employment in hazardous conditions and the size of enterprises. Results: The results of the regression estimates show that the number of occupational accidents in Poland exhibits procyclical behavior, which means that more accidents are observed during the times of economic expansion. Stronger relationships were observed in the equations explaining men's accident rates as well as total rates. A weaker and not always statistically significant impact of economic situation was identified for women's accident rates and days of incapacity to work. Conclusions: The results have important implications for occupational health and safety actions. In the periods of higher work intensity employers should focus on appropriate training and supervision of inexperienced workers as well as on ensuring enough time for already experienced employees to recuperate. In terms of public health actions, policy makers should focus on scrutinizing working conditions, educating employers and counteracting possible discrimination of injured employees. Int J Occup Med Environ Health 2018;31(2):151 -164

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Economic situation and occupational accidents in Poland: 2002–2014 panel data regional study

Łyszczarz

Nojszewska

2017

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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“…However, the reports concentrated on fatal accidents and it is probable there are differences in the aetiology of non-fatal accidents (Saloniemi and Oksanen, 1998). Whittington et al (1992) is one of the few other studies that has attempted to In a UMIST study, examining behaviour modification approaches to improving construction safety, Duff et al (1994) developed a safety audit checklist, used to monitor safety performance of construction sites.…”

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Contributing factors in construction accidents

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“…As it is mentioned by Fabiano et al (2004, p. 588) historical experiences of the developed countries show that a pro-cyclical relation is supported by the results of different researchers before 1970s. On the other hand, after 1970s, as Saloniemi and Oksanen (1998) found that there is no significant nexus between fatal accidents and business cycle in Finnish construction and manufacturing industries between 1977 and 1991.…”

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The Relationship between Economic Development and Fatal Occupational Accidents: Evidence from Turkey

Çolak¹,

Palaz²

2017

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business

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Occupational accidents are among the most important issues of the agenda of working life in Turkey recently. Recently the causes and consequences of occupational accidents which are related to human, occupational and environmental factors have received great attention from the researchers but it has been paid little attention to focused on economic factors. The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to redressing this gap by examining the relationship between fatal occupational accidents and economic development over the period of 1980 to 2012 for Turkey. In this context, bounds testing approach which is also known as autoregressive distributed lag model is performed. The results indicate the existence of positive relationship between gross domestic product per capita and fatal occupational accidents in the short-run while in the long run this turns out to be in a negative way via economic growth and changes in structure of the economy.

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Accidents and fatal accidents—some paradoxes

Cited by 51 publications

References 13 publications

Economic situation and occupational accidents in Poland: 2002–2014 panel data regional study

Economic situation and occupational accidents in Poland: 2002–2014 panel data regional study

Contributing factors in construction accidents

The Relationship between Economic Development and Fatal Occupational Accidents: Evidence from Turkey

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