Health and Work in Women and Men in the Welding and Electrical Trades: How Do They Differ?

Cherry, Nicola; Arrandale, Victoria H; Beach, Jeremy; Galarneau, Jean‐Michel; Mannette, Antonia; Rodgers, Laura S.

doi:10.1093/annweh/wxy007

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“…In summary, unequal occupational exposures have different impacts on the physical and mental health of men and women. The accumulation of disadvantages associated with prolonged exposure to stressful situations helps to understand the higher prevalence of mental ill‐health among women, which is often aggravated by exposure to bullying, verbal and sexual assault at work, and a higher perception of gender discrimination 52 …”

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Stressful work in primary health care and mental health: The role of gender inequities in Brazil

Araújo

Sousa

Siegrist

2022

American J Industrial Med

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Background: This study aims to analyze the association between occupational stressors, evaluated by the Effort−Reward Imbalance Model (ERI), and the occurrence of common mental disorders (CMD) among healthcare workers (HCW), additionally considering mediation by over-commitment from work (OW) and mediation of gender effects by work stressors. Methods: Cross-sectional study, including a random sample of 3343 HCWs, from six municipalities of Bahia, Brazil. The ERI scale measured the occupational stressors (main exposure), and the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) was used to screen for CMD. Data analysis used Structural Equation Modeling techniques to understand the relationships between gender, occupational stressors, and the occurrence of CMD.Results: ERI and OW were associated with CMD. OW mediated the negative effect of ERI on the mental health of HCW. Female workers had higher levels of ERI, OW, and CMD prevalence; the total gender effect on CMD prevalence was mediated by ERI and OW. Conclusions:The findings highlight the association of work psychosocial stressors and CMD among HCW, including partial mediation by OW. Gender inequalities persisted among HCW, with women most exposed to occupational stressors and CMD. ERI and OW partially mediated the effect of gender on CMD.

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Stressful work in primary health care and mental health: The role of gender inequities in Brazil

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Sousa

Siegrist

2022

American J Industrial Med

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“…Those making a claim in jobs with high occupational strength requirements (typical of many jobs taken by interprovincial workers) were more, not less, likely to have a time‐loss claim than those with a claim for a similar injury in less physically demanding work and this does not help explain the discrepancy seen in the present study. Smith et al also comment, however, that certain industries such as construction may have a culture in which workers return to work the day after an injury rather than taking time off. If this is the case, it would be reflected in the depressed rate with short time loss, increasing the rate with no time loss.…”

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“…This further analysis made use of two datasets described in detail elsewhere. The first was information from two cohorts of workers who had undergone apprenticeships in the welding or electrical trades, composed of women from across Canada in these trades together with men from Alberta in the same trades . Recruitment for these studies began in 2012 and data collection was completed in 2018.…”

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Work injuries in internal migrants to Alberta, Canada. Do workers' compensation records provide an unbiased estimate of risk?

Cherry

Galarneau

Haan

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American J Industrial Med

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Introduction It is not known whether out‐of‐province Canadians, who travel to Alberta for work, are at increased risk of occupational injury. Methods Workers' compensation board (WCB) claims in 2013 to 2015 for those injured in Alberta were extracted by home province. Denominator data, from Statistics Canada, indicated the numbers from Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) employed in Alberta in 2012. Both datasets were stratified by industry, age, and gender. Logistic regression estimated the risk of a worker from NL making a WCB claim in 2013 or 2014, stratified by time lost from work. Bias from under‐reporting was examined in responses to injury questions in a cohort of trades' workers across Canada and in a pilot study in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Results Injury reporting rate in workers from NL was lower than those from Alberta, with a marked deficit (odds ratio [OR] = 0.17; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.12‐0.27) for injuries resulting in 1 to 30 days off work. Among the 1520 from Alberta in the trades' cohort, 327 participants reported 444 work injuries: 34.5% were reported to the WCB, rising to 69.4% in those treated by a physician. A total of 52 injuries in Alberta were recorded by 151 workers in the Fort McMurray cohort. In logistic regression, very similar factors predicted WCB reporting in the trades and Fort McMurray cohorts, but those from out‐of‐province or recently settled in Alberta were much less likely to report (OR = 0.02; 95% CI, 0.00‐0.40). Conclusion Differential rates of under‐reporting explain in part the overall low estimates of injuries in interprovincial workers but not the deficit in time‐loss 1 to 30 days.

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“…Moreover, women had a higher intensity and frequency of occupational exposure than men. Adopting a better strategy to investigate gender—rather than sex—effects, a further study compared women and men in the welding and electrical trades 31 . Here, female welders less often used respiratory protective equipment than male welders, which potentially increases occupational exposure predisposing for asthma.…”

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Gender and occupational allergy: Report from the task force of the EAACI Environmental and Occupational Allergy Interest Group

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Apfelbacher

Brockow

et al. 2020

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Women's work has traditionally been considered less hazardous to health in comparison with men's work. The increased women's participation in the workforce has led to an increased attention to women's working conditions. Women and men are unequally represented in individual professions or sectors (horizontal segregation), with women also under‐represented in leadership positions (vertical segregation). The selection of specific occupations can result in differences between types and levels of occupational exposures among women and men and can affect prevalence of occupational allergy. Gender distribution of work‐related asthma appears to vary across countries without clear global difference. Occupational rhinitis tends to be higher in women, although is not clear if this is related to a sex/gender effect or to differences in work exposure. Women are more likely to have occupational contact dermatitis, mainly due to wet work. No clear effects of gender on rates of hypersensitivity pneumonitis have been shown. Besides variation in exposures, physical and physiological characteristics, different behaviours and health consciousness have an impact on the occupational health hazards of women and men. Occupational allergy health promotion strategies need to consider approaches for women and men adjusted by gender, and legislative actions similarly could be implemented in a more gender‐sensitive way.

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Health and Work in Women and Men in the Welding and Electrical Trades: How Do They Differ?

Cited by 27 publications

References 33 publications

Stressful work in primary health care and mental health: The role of gender inequities in Brazil

Stressful work in primary health care and mental health: The role of gender inequities in Brazil

Work injuries in internal migrants to Alberta, Canada. Do workers' compensation records provide an unbiased estimate of risk?

Gender and occupational allergy: Report from the task force of the EAACI Environmental and Occupational Allergy Interest Group

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