The relationships between high-risk and problem drinking and the occurrence of work injuries and related absences.

Webb, Gloria R.; Redman, Selina; Hennrikus, Deborah J.; Kelman, G. R.; Gibberd, Robert; Sanson‐Fisher, Rob

doi:10.15288/jsa.1994.55.434

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“…Após o ajuste para renda e escolaridade, desapareceu o efeito do alcoolismo, ou seja, o efeito estava sobredeterminado pelas variáveis sócio-econômicas. Gutiérrez-Fisac et al (1992) apontaram o consumo excessivo de bebidas alcóolicas como fator de risco para acidentes, no entanto alguns estudos (Hingson et al, 1985;Webb et al, 1994) também não têm encontrado tal associação. Talvez a diversidade de medidas utilizadas e os diferentes tipos de ajustes realizados tenham gerado resultados tão contraditórios.…”

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Associação entre as características individuais e sócio-econômicas e os acidentes do trabalho em Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

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Dall’Agnol

et al. 1999

Cad. Saúde Pública

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Associação entre as características individuais e sócio-econômicas e os acidentes do trabalho em Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

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Dall’Agnol

et al. 1999

Cad. Saúde Pública

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“…Most of the 56.6 million adult binge drinkers (74.7%) and 16.5 million heavy drinkers (74.0%) were employed in 2010 (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2011). For employers, consequences of employees' excessive drinking include high job turnover rates, co-worker conflict, injuries, higher health benefit costs, and workplace aggression (Mangione et al, 1999;McFarlin et al, 2001;McFarlin and Fals-Stewart, 2002;Webb et al, 1994). Economic costs resulting from lost productivity, health care costs, and legal and criminal consequences of excessive drinking were estimated $223.5 billion in 2006 (Bouchery et al, 2011).…”

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Associations of occupational attributes and excessive drinking

Barnes

Zimmerman

2013

Social Science & Medicine

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Numerous work-related drinking mechanisms have been posited and, oftentimes, examined in isolation. We combined data from over 100 occupational attributes into several factors and tested the association of these factors with measures of alcohol use. We used the NLSY79 2006 wave, a U.S. representative sample of 6,426 workers ages 41 to 49 and the 2006 Occupational Information Network database (O*NET), a nationally representative sample of nearly 1,000 occupations. We conducted exploratory factor analysis on 119 occupational attributes and found three independent workplace characteristics -physical demands, job autonomy, and social engagement -explained the majority of the variation. We then tested the association of these composite attributes with three drinking measures, before and after adjusting for gender, race/ethnicity, and a measure of human capital using count data models. We then stratified by gender and repeated our analyses. Men working in occupations with a one standard deviation higher level of physical demand (e.g. construction) reported a higher number of heavy drinking occasions (+20%, p<0.05). Job autonomy was not significantly associated with measures of alcohol use and when the combined association of higher levels of physical demand and lower levels of job autonomy was examined, modest support for job strain as a mechanism for work-related alcohol consumption was found. In our pooled sample, working in occupations with one standard deviation higher levels of social engagement was associated with lower numbers of drinking days (−9%, p<0.05) after adjustment. Physical demand and social engagement were associated with alcohol consumption measures but these relationships varied by workers' gender. Future areas of research should include confirmatory analyses using other waves of O*Net data and replicating the current analysis in other samples of workers. If our results are validated, they suggest male workers in high physical demand occupations could be targets for intervention.

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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.

Saha¹,

Takiar²,

Chaudhuri³

et al. 2004

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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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The relationships between high-risk and problem drinking and the occurrence of work injuries and related absences.

Cited by 89 publications

References 47 publications

Associação entre as características individuais e sócio-econômicas e os acidentes do trabalho em Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Associação entre as características individuais e sócio-econômicas e os acidentes do trabalho em Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Associations of occupational attributes and excessive drinking

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

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