Elevated occupational transportation fatalities among older workers in Oregon: An empirical investigation

Walters, Jaime; Olson, Ryan; Karr, Justin E; Zoller, Erika; Cain, Daniel; Douglas, Jae P.

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2013.01.001

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“…Other research has shown that older workers are more likely to be injured if they are involved in a crash and more likely to die if they are injured [19,26,[31][32][33]. In contrast, Newnam et al (2018) did not find that crash-involved workers aged 60 or older were statistically more likely to be injured or killed compared to younger workers [34].…”

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“…As with MVCs in the general population, there are disparities in the risk of fatal work-related MVCs by sex, age, and race/ethnicity. Frequencies and rates of crashes and fatalities are generally reported to be higher for males than for females [15][16][17][18], and older workers have the highest fatality rates [16,19]. American Indian and Alaska Native workers and Black workers have the highest rates of fatal work-related crashes [15,16].…”

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“…Studies that calculated work-related MVC rates or assessed relative risk by age reported mixed results. Several studies found that although the highest proportions of injuries and fatalities generally occurred among middle-aged groups, it was older workers who were at the highest risk [15,16,18,19,22,28,29]. In contrast, the highest fatality rates in the U.S. mining sector were reported to be among workers ages 16 to 19 years and the lowest rates at age 65 or older [30].…”

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Applying a Health Equity Lens to Work-Related Motor Vehicle Safety in the United States

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Hagan-Haynes

2023

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Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are the leading cause of fatal work-related injuries in the United States. Research assessing sociodemographic risk disparities for work-related MVCs is limited, yet structural and systemic inequities at work and during commutes likely contribute to disproportionate MVC risk. This paper summarizes the literature on risk disparities for work-related MVCs by sociodemographic and employment characteristics and identifies worker populations that have been largely excluded from previous research. The social–ecological model is used as a framework to identify potential causes of disparities at five levels—individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and public policy. Expanded data collection and analyses of work-related MVCs are needed to understand and reduce disparities for pedestrian workers, workers from historically marginalized communities, workers with overlapping vulnerabilities, and workers not adequately covered by employer policies and safety regulations. In addition, there is a need for more data on commuting-related MVCs in the United States. Inadequate access to transportation, which disproportionately affects marginalized populations, may make travel to and from work less safe and limit individuals’ access to employment. Identifying and remedying inequities in work-related MVCs, whether during the day or while commuting, will require the efforts of industry and multiple public sectors, including public health, transportation, and labor.

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2023

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“…The criterion "evaluated" was particularly problematic. Many studies described development of models for interventions or were study protocols of ongoing interventions and did not describe the outcome or results of an intervention, which was the topic of interest in this review [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58]. Other reasons for exclusion were that the intervention did not include a description of the participants' age, or excluded older workers [42;54;59-61], or that it did not describe agricultural workers [49-51;53-55;61;66].…”

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“…Furthermore, there is a high incidence of work-related accidents and demands in agriculture and a number of studies highlight the importance of preventing injuries and promoting the health of older agricultural workers [9][10][11][12][13]. Farming consistently ranks as one of the highest injury risk work sectors [1;5;14-16].…”

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Interventions to reduce injuries among older workers in agriculture: A review of evaluated intervention projects

Nilsson

2016

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BACKGROUND:The number of older workers is increasing throughout the industrialised world and older workers are known to be more frequent in the injury-prone agricultural sector.OBJECTIVE: This paper sought to extend knowledge by reviewing evaluated intervention studies intended to decrease risks and work injuries among older workers in agriculture. METHODS:A systematic literature review regarding: evaluated intervention projects on injury prevention, including participants aged 55 years and older, and working in agriculture. RESULTS:This review identified evaluated intervention projects regarding: i) intervention in injury prevention; ii) interventions to increase knowledge in health and safety tasks and practice; and iii) interventions to increase the use of safety equipment in work. The evaluations reviewed showed that the interventions were less successful in involving older agricultural workers than their younger counterparts. The evaluations also showed that the outcome of interventions was generally less positive or brought about no significant difference in risk awareness and behaviour change among older agricultural workers. CONCLUSIONS:Many articles and statistics describe injuries in agriculture. Especially older farm workers are one of the groups with most work injuries and deaths. Despite this, an important finding in this review was shortage of implemented and evaluated intervention studies orientated toward reduce injuries among older workers in agriculture. This review also found that no intervention project in the evaluations studied had a clear positive effect. Many intervention studies have problems with or lack of evaluation in the study design. Based on the results in this review, important future research tasks are to improve the design of interventions, devise implementation methods and formulate appropriate evaluation methods to measure the outcome of the interventions.Intervention programmes also need to involve older workers specific physical and cognitive age aspects in the design to increases their willingness to participate and to be successful to reduce injuries.

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Promoting Workability for Our Ageing Population

Fitzgerald

Reid

O’Neill

2016

The Palgrave Handbook of Age Diversity and Work

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Elevated occupational transportation fatalities among older workers in Oregon: An empirical investigation

Cited by 6 publications

References 59 publications

Applying a Health Equity Lens to Work-Related Motor Vehicle Safety in the United States

Applying a Health Equity Lens to Work-Related Motor Vehicle Safety in the United States

Interventions to reduce injuries among older workers in agriculture: A review of evaluated intervention projects

Promoting Workability for Our Ageing Population

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