Injury rates, severity, and drug testing programs in small construction companies

Schofield, Katherine; Alexander, Bruce H.; Gerberich, Susan Goodwin; Ryan, Andrew D.

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2012.08.021

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“…Given the expense of implementing a drug and alcohol screening program, companies with such policies may have better financial performance, and thus the presence of these programs may be associated with other unmeasured company characteristics. The horse may have left the barn as more and more companies are using drug testing as part of their safety programs based on cross‐sectional studies including our own . Given the high rates of alcohol and drug use among construction workers the industry should consider employing substance abuse programs for their employees.…”

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Testing the associations between leading and lagging indicators in a contractor safety pre‐qualification database

Manjourides¹,

Dennerlein²

2019

American J Industrial Med

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Background: Safety prequalification assessing contractors' safety management systems and safety programs lack validation in predicting construction worker injuries.Methods: Safety assessments of leading indicators from 2198 construction contractors, including Safety Management Systems (SMS), Safety Programs (e.g., falls, hearing protection), and Special Elements (drug testing, return to work) scales as well as the history of citations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were compared to contractors' lagging indicators of recordable injury case rates (RC) and rates of injuries involving days away, restricted, or transferred (DART).Results: Increased SMS scores were related to lower injury rates. Each one-point increase in SMS values was associated with 34% reduced odds of a recordable case rate greater than zero (Odds ratio (OR): 0.66, 95% Confidence Interval (CI): (0.57, 0.79)), and a 9% reduced recordable case rate, if one occurs (Risk Ratio (RR): 0.91, 95% CI: (0.88, 0.94)). A one-point increase in SMS was associated with 28% reduced odds of a DART (OR = 0.72, 95%CI (0.56, 0.91)), and 9% reduced DART rate, if one occurs (RR = 0.91, 95%CI (0.87, 0.95)). Safety programs did not show consistent associations with injury outcomes. Having additional Special Elements related to drug and alcohol programs was associated with lower injury rates while the Special Element related to return to work showed no consistent associations with injury. Having more OSHA Citations was associated with lower injury rates for companies with injuries. Conclusions:These results support pre-qualification methods based on SMS and suggest the need for safety management systems in contractors. K E Y W O R D Sconstruction, safety management systems, subcontractors, workplace injuries

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Testing the associations between leading and lagging indicators in a contractor safety pre‐qualification database

Manjourides¹,

Dennerlein²

2019

American J Industrial Med

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“…27 In all, 14 studies were observational studies, of which seven were cross-sectional, 26,31,33,41,44,46,50 and seven were cohort studies. 30,35,36,38,45,48,51 The majority of the studies (23/27; 85%) were carried out among employees in the United States. Australia, Canada, Portugal, and Spain had one study each.…”

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“…The most common independent intervention was drug testing, which had 12 independent analyses from 11 studies. 26,30,31,33,35,[37][38][39]42,45,50 Seven analyses from five studies evaluated the effectiveness of EAPs, 26,27,39,49,51 while six studies investigated the impact of employee education. 25,26,28,29,39,43 Less commonly evaluated single interventions were written workplace drug-free policies with five effectiveness evaluations 26,33,39,44,50 and restructuring of employee benefits, with three evaluations from two studies.…”

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A systematic review of the effectiveness of employer-led interventions for drug misuse

Akanbi

Iroz

O’Dwyer

et al. 2020

Journal of Occupational Health

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“…Após o processo de leitura dos artigos completos, houve a seleção de sete referências: cinco artigos originais [21][22][23][24][25] e duas revisões sistemáticas 18,19 . A busca na literatura cinzenta acrescentou mais três artigos originais 17,26,27 e uma revisão sistemática 16 .…”

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Diretriz Técnica da ANAMT (DT nº 02/2016)* - Efeito do rastreamento do uso de álcool e drogas entre trabalhadores

Silva-Junior¹,

Lessa²,

Maciel³

et al. 2016

Rev. Bras. Med. Trab.

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Esta diretriz seguiu padrão de uma revisão sistemática com recuperação de evidencias baseada no movimento da Medicina Baseada em Evidências (Evidence-Based Medicine), em que a experiência clínica é integrada com a capacidade de analisar criticamente e aplicar de forma racional a informação científica, melhorando assim a qualidade da assistência médica. A MBE utiliza provas científicas existentes e disponíveis no momento, com boa validade interna e externa, para a aplicação de seus resultados na prática clínica. 1,2As revisões sistemáticas são consideradas, atualmente, o nível I de evidências para qualquer questão clínica por sumarizarem sistematicamente informações sobre determinado tópico através de estudos primários (ensaios clínicos, estudos de coorte, casos-controle ou estudos transversais), *Este material é parte da parceria do Projeto Diretrizes, da Associação Médica Brasileira (AMB), e o Núcleo Diretrizes, da Associação Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho (ANAMT). O material também está disponível no site

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Injury rates, severity, and drug testing programs in small construction companies

Cited by 17 publications

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Testing the associations between leading and lagging indicators in a contractor safety pre‐qualification database

Testing the associations between leading and lagging indicators in a contractor safety pre‐qualification database

A systematic review of the effectiveness of employer-led interventions for drug misuse

Diretriz Técnica da ANAMT (DT nº 02/2016)* - Efeito do rastreamento do uso de álcool e drogas entre trabalhadores

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