Heavy Drinking, Alcohol Dependence, and Injuries at Work Among Young Workers in the United States Labor Force

Veazie, Mark A.; Smith, Gordon S.

doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.2000.tb01985.x

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“…Additional analyses were then conducted for each injury rate, adjusting for the inherent hazard of the jobs using the three BLS-based control variables described above (Veazie and Smith, 2000).…”

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“…One method used in other studies of adjusting for differences in inherent hazards across industry has been to use average industry specific rates as a control variable (Veazie and Smith, 2000). Following this approach, we used the companies' SIC code to derive comparable, nationwide injury rates for the same three-digit SIC codes from the bureau of labor statistics (BLS) on-line database using 1999 lost-workday cases only (BLS, 2004).…”

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“…For those studies targeting multiple industries, little recognition has been given to the fact that different industries have different inherent injury risks and different levels of exposure to hazard. While we found several studies of injury risks that controlled for industry hazards (Thoms and Venkataraman, 2002;Veazie and Smith, 2000;Zohar, 1980), only one (Zohar, 1980) examined safety climate. This study used expert ratings of safety performance to separate companies into hazard categories.…”

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“…A variety of factors have been found to be responsible for occupational accidents, either directly or indirectly. Work conditions 5) , age [6][7][8][9] , educational status, safety training 10) , experience 11) , smoking 12,13) , alcohol [14][15][16][17] , psychosocial factors 18) , shift of work 19) and weather 20) have all been designated as responsible factors. Some authors have also shown that the type of worker (temporary or permanent) 21) and speed of work 22) are also important factors in the causation of occupational accidents.…”

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An Accident-Risk Assessment Study of Temporary Piece Rated Workers.

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Chaudhuri³

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An occupational injury surveillance study (record study of five years duration) was conducted involving the workers of a fertilizer producing industry in eastern India to assess whether the risk of occupational accidents in temporary piece rated workers was higher in comparison to the permanent time rated workers. At the same time, to collect the personal details of the workers who have worked in the industry in the study period, an interview was also conducted. Mean age of temporary piece rated workers and permanent time rated workers were (35.9 ± 12.5) and (35.3 ± 11.4) respectively. Distribution of other variables like nature of work, level of education, experience, habits were also very similar between the two worker groups. Accident incidence rate, accident frequency rate and accident severity rate were found to be significantly higher in temporary piece rated workers. This difference was more prominent in case of time-loss accidents than in no timeloss accidents. Relative risk has varied from 2.3 to 18.0 in case of time-loss accidents. In case of no time-loss accidents, it has varied from 1.1 to 2.6. When relative risk is considered after taking both types of accidents together, it has ranged from 1.2 to 3.5. This study concluded that the temporary piece rated workers are more vulnerable to occupational accidents.

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“…Consumption of alcoholic beverages by the female sex in Latin America has been increasing dramatically over the last twenty years (Veazie & Smith, 2000). Due to complications caused at the somatic and psychic levels, as well as to deep social repercussions, it has been considered a serious public health problem (Faustino & Stipp, 2003).…”

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Histometric Study of the Epithelium of Rats Submitted to Ethanol During Lactation

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SUMMARY:The present work studied the adverse effects of maternal exposure of rats to alcohol during lactation, on the development of their offspring. Histometric evaluation by karyometry and of the palatine epithelium of the sucking was performed. Two groups of animals, one coming from mothers exposed to drinking water containing 20% ethanol during the total lactation period and the other of controls coming from mothers receiving only alcohol-free drinking water during this period. On the 21 first day of lactation the young of each group were aleatorily selected and following anesthesia, their heads severed; after histological treatment, serial 6 µm sections on the frontal plane at the molar level, stained with hematoxilin and eosin, were obtained. The experimental results produced, suggest that suckling from ethanol-treated mothers, show a significant decrease of body weight, significant alterations of karyometric and stereological measurements that determined hypotrophy of palatine epithelial cells and toxicity of ethanol at the palatine epithelium.

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Heavy Drinking, Alcohol Dependence, and Injuries at Work Among Young Workers in the United States Labor Force

Abstract: For young U.S. workers, common occupational injuries (excluding sprains and strains) may not be strongly associated with alcohol dependence. Confounding by other risk factors may explain much of the association between being a heavy drinker and occupational injuries in this population.

Cited by 31 publications

References 64 publications

The relationship between safety climate and injury rates across industries: The need to adjust for injury hazards

The relationship between safety climate and injury rates across industries: The need to adjust for injury hazards

An Accident-Risk Assessment Study of Temporary Piece Rated Workers.

Histometric Study of the Epithelium of Rats Submitted to Ethanol During Lactation

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