Higher unemployment and higher work-related traumatic fatality: trends and associations from the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, 2007–2018

Abstract

This longitudinal investigation focuses on workplace fatality in a region where workplace fatality rates have remained stubbornly high even as other workers' compensation claims have decreased. The paper contributes to a limited body of evidence linking workplace fatality to economic indicators, and provides evidence for worsening safety outcomes following a rise in unemployment rates.