Young Workers’ Access to and Awareness of Occupational Safety and Health Services: Age-Differences and Possible Drivers in a Large Survey of Employees in Italy

Dragano, Nico; Barbaranelli, Claudio; Reuter, Marvin; Wahrendorf, Morten; Wright, Bradley J.; Ronchetti, Matteo; Buresti, Giuliana; Tecco, Cristina Di; Iavicoli, Sergio

doi:10.3390/ijerph15071511

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“…It includes several questions to investigate the main aspects linked to health and safety at work in terms of working conditions, risk exposure and perceptions, health status and outcomes, management and prevention, occupational health and safety professionals and legal aspects. Some of measures included in the questionnaire have been used in further published secondary analysis study [41,42]. In this study, we included the main demographic and occupational variables traditionally linked to the BMI, and self-reported height and weight for computing the BMI, that have been not used elsewhere in other published studies.…”

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Gender differences and occupational factors for the risk of obesity in the Italian working population

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Background: Obesity is a multifactorial condition and a major risk factor associated with several noncommunicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, and with a higher risk of premature death and disability. Sex-specific factors have key roles and must be taken into consideration in studying occupational factors associated with the risk of obesity. The aim of this study was to investigate gender differences in body mass index (BMI) in a large cohort representative of Italian workers and, correlating this index with several demographic and occupational variables, to verify sex-and work-dependent differences in the risk of obesity. Methods: We utilized data from INSuLa, a cross-sectional, nationally representative survey of the Italian worker population conducted in 2013 by the Italian Workers' Compensation Authority to investigate health and safety at work. Analyses were run on a sample of 8000 Italian workers, aged from 16 to 64 years. Logistic regression models were employed to assess gender differences in the relation between occupational characteristics and BMI. We adjusted for age, education, variables related to health protection at work, and chronic conditions and diseases. Results: There were several significant differences in the BMI between males and females, linked to some occupational factors. For instance, female shift workers were 1.32 times (95% CI 1.11-1.57) more likely to be overweight or obese than normal-weight workers, and this association was maintained when controlling for confounders. The likelihood of overweight or obesity among women who worked 1-2 night shifts per week was significantly higher-1.5-1.6 timesthan those on day shifts. Conclusions: Gender-specific differences in occupational factors associated with the risk of obesity are useful with a view to characterizing this risk and helping identify workplace-targeted intervention strategies.

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Gender differences and occupational factors for the risk of obesity in the Italian working population

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“…Among them, the new generation of construction workers (NGCWs) are gradually drawing more and more attention in recent years [ 10 , 11 ]. Prior literature has revealed the unique roles of demographic factors like age and seniority in this domain, and cohort studies are specific to the group of young workers [ 12 , 13 , 14 ]. The previous research shows that compared with the older workers, young workers have a lower awareness of safety [ 13 ], higher occupational injury rates [ 15 ], and lower safety voice intentions [ 16 ].…”

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“…Prior literature has revealed the unique roles of demographic factors like age and seniority in this domain, and cohort studies are specific to the group of young workers [ 12 , 13 , 14 ]. The previous research shows that compared with the older workers, young workers have a lower awareness of safety [ 13 ], higher occupational injury rates [ 15 ], and lower safety voice intentions [ 16 ]. Therefore, it is worthwhile to conduct in-depth investigations about the improvement of safety performance to a single population, especially for the younger generation [ 17 ].…”

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Influencing Mechanism of Job Satisfaction on Safety Behavior of New Generation of Construction Workers Based on Chinese Context: The Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Safety Knowledge Sharing

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Zhang

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China’s construction industry developed rapidly and safety production has become a vital issue. Improving the safety behavior of construction workers is an important measure to effectively decrease construction safety accidents. At present, a New Generation of Construction Workers (NGCWs) born after 1980 has gradually become the main force of construction companies in China and the special group characteristics coming from the intergenerational difference may make them behave differently in safety-related activities, therefore, it is very important to study how to promote their safety behavior. This paper aimed to explore the influencing mechanism of job satisfaction on the safety behavior of NGCWs and examine the mediating role of safety knowledge sharing and work engagement. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling analysis were applied to test the theoretical model. Empirical research results indicated that job satisfaction can effectively promote safety behavior through safety knowledge sharing and work engagement. Safety knowledge sharing plays a complete mediating role between job satisfaction and safety compliance behavior, as well as between job satisfaction and safety participation behavior. Moreover, work engagement plays a complete mediating role between job satisfaction and safety participation behavior, which can provide valuable management references for China’s construction companies to strengthen their safety behavior.

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“…Additionally, we analyze whether the relationship between employment contract and presenteeism differs between young and older workers. Young workers represent a group more often affected by adverse employment conditions as temporary working contracts [28], insecure employment [29] or limited access to occupational health and safety [30]. Since they are group of special risk, we hypothesize that the link between contract and SP could be differently pronounced among young workers.…”

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Do Temporary Workers More Often Decide to Work While Sick? Evidence for the Link between Employment Contract and Presenteeism in Europe

Reuter

Wahrendorf

Tecco

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European employees are increasingly likely to work in cases of illness (sickness presenteeism, SP). Past studies found inconsistent evidence for the assumption that temporary workers decide to avoid taking sick leave due to job insecurity. A new measure to identify decision-based determinants of SP is presenteeism propensity (PP), which is the number of days worked while ill in relation to the sum of days worked while ill and days taken sickness absence. We investigated the link between employment contract and PP using cross-sectional data from 20,240 employees participating in the 2015 European Working Conditions Survey. Workers were grouped by type and duration of employment contract. The link between contract and PP was estimated using a multilevel Poisson model adjusted for socio-demographical, occupational and health-related covariates. We found that European employees worked 39% of the days they were ill. In contrast to previous studies, temporary workers were significantly more likely to decide for presenteeism than permanent workers were, especially when the contract was limited to less than 1 year. Controlling for perceived job insecurity did just marginally attenuate this association. Presenteeism was also more common among young and middle-aged workers; however, we did not find a significant interaction between contract and age affecting presenteeism. In conclusion, the employment contract is an important determinant of presenteeism. Our results give reason to believe that temporary workers show increased attendance behavior independent of job insecurity, because they are less likely to have access to social protection in case of illness.

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Young Workers’ Access to and Awareness of Occupational Safety and Health Services: Age-Differences and Possible Drivers in a Large Survey of Employees in Italy

Cited by 20 publications

References 34 publications

Gender differences and occupational factors for the risk of obesity in the Italian working population

Gender differences and occupational factors for the risk of obesity in the Italian working population

Influencing Mechanism of Job Satisfaction on Safety Behavior of New Generation of Construction Workers Based on Chinese Context: The Mediating Roles of Work Engagement and Safety Knowledge Sharing

Do Temporary Workers More Often Decide to Work While Sick? Evidence for the Link between Employment Contract and Presenteeism in Europe

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