How Much Work-Related Injury and Illness is Missed By the Current National Surveillance System?

Rosenman, Kenneth D.; Kalush, Alice; Reilly, Mary Jo; Gardiner, Joseph C.; Reeves, Mathew J.; Luo, Zhewui

doi:10.1097/01.jom.0000205864.81970.63

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“…OSHA logs, consisting of employers' reports, provide one measure of the prevalence of work-related injuries or diseases, although the validity and completeness of these data have been questioned repeatedly, both by a recent GAO report and in other studies that compare BLS data to other sources [Rosenman et al, 2006;Boden and Ozonoff, 2008;GAO, 2009]. The OSHA logs also provide no indication of the extent of resulting impairment or disability.…”

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The lack of correspondence between work‐related disability and receipt of workers' compensation benefits

Spieler

Burton

2012

American J Industrial Med

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Background Previous studies suggest that many persons with disabilities caused by work do not receive workers' compensation benefits. Methods Data from surveys of persons with disabilities were used to estimate the proportion of disability due to work-related injuries and diseases. Studies examining the proportion of workers with work-related disability who received workers' compensation benefits were reviewed. Legal and other factors explaining the lack of receipt of workers' compensation benefits were examined. Results Many workers with disabilities caused by work do not receive workers' compensation benefits. The obstacles to compensation include increasingly restrictive rules for compensability in many state workers' compensation programs. Conclusions A substantial proportion of persons with work-related disabilities do not receive workers' compensation benefits. The solutions to this problem, such as providing healthcare to workers regardless of the source of injuries or diseases, are complicated and controversial, and will be difficult to implement.

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Section: Persons With Work-related Disabilitiesmentioning

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The lack of correspondence between work‐related disability and receipt of workers' compensation benefits

Spieler

Burton

2012

American J Industrial Med

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“…In particular, figures of work-related fatal and non-fatal accidents in developing countries were considerably underestimated (4). A recent study has shown that 33% to 69% of all work-related injuries were missed and not reported (5). In Iran, as a developing country, due to the absence of an appropriate reporting and registration system there is no available accurate statistics regarding occupational accidents that occur annually.…”

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Comparison of Management Oversight and Risk Tree and Tripod-Beta in Excavation Accident Analysis

Mohamadfam

Soleimani

Ghasemi

et al. 2015

Jundishapur J Health Sci

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Background: Accident investigation programs are a necessary part in identification of risks and management of the business process. Objectives: One of the most important features of such programs is the analysis technique for identifying the root causes of accidents in order to prevent their recurrences. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to compare management oversight and risk tree (MORT) with Tripod-Beta in order to determine the superior technique for analysis of fatal excavation accidents in construction industries. Materials and Methods: MORT and Tripod-Beta techniques were used for analyzing two major accidents with three main steps. First, these techniques were applied to find out the causal factors of the accidents. Second, a number of criteria were developed for the comparison of the techniques and third, using AHP, the techniques were prioritized in terms of the criteria for choosing the superior one. Results: The Tripod-Beta investigation showed 41 preconditions and 81 latent causes involved in the accidents. Additionally, 27 root causes of accidents were identified by the MORT analysis. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) investigation revealed that MORT had higher priorities only in two criteria than Tripod-Beta. Conclusions: Our findings indicate that Tripod-Beta with a total priority of 0.664 is superior to MORT with the total priority of 0.33. It is recommended for future research to compare the available accident analysis techniques based on proper criteria to select the best for accident analysis.

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“…Under-reporting is indeed very well-known to affect occupational injury data (see e.g. Galizzi et al, 2010;Rosenman et al, 2006;Shannon and Lowe, 2002;Tucker et al, 2014), and it might be significantly related to the type of contract. Firing a temporary worker is much easier than firing a permanent worker in Italy.…”

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Temporary jobs and the severity of workplace accidents

Picchio

Ours

2017

Journal of Safety Research

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Introduction: From the point of view of workplace safety, it is important to know whether having a temporary job has an effect on the severity of workplace accidents. We present an empirical analysis on the severity of workplace accidents by type of contract. Method: We used micro data collected by the Italian national institute managing the mandatory insurance against work related accidents. We estimated linear models for a measure of the severity of the workplace accident. We controlled for time-invariant fixed effects at worker and firm levels to disentangle the impact of the type of contract from the spurious one induced by unobservables at worker and firm levels. Results: Workers with a temporary contract, if subject to a workplace accident, were more likely to be confronted with severe injuries than permanent workers. When correcting the statistical analysis for injury underreporting of temporary workers, we found that most of, but not all, the effect is driven by the under-reporting bias. Conclusions: The effect of temporary contracts on the injury severity survived the inclusion of worker and firm fixed effects and the correction for temporary workers' injury under-reporting. This however does not exclude the possibility that, within firms, the nature of the work may vary between different categories of workers. For example, temporary workers might be more likely to be assigned by the employer dangerous tasks because they might have less bargaining power. Practical implications: The findings will be of help in designing public policy effective in increasing temporary workers' safety at work and limiting their injury under-reporting.

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How Much Work-Related Injury and Illness is Missed By the Current National Surveillance System?

Cited by 296 publications

References 13 publications

The lack of correspondence between work‐related disability and receipt of workers' compensation benefits

The lack of correspondence between work‐related disability and receipt of workers' compensation benefits

Comparison of Management Oversight and Risk Tree and Tripod-Beta in Excavation Accident Analysis

Temporary jobs and the severity of workplace accidents

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