Gender aspects of work-related injuries in a Swedish municipality

Gender and age distribution of occupational fatalities in Taiwan

“…This study, based on a national surveillance system of fatal occupational injuries, enhances the understanding of fatal accidents in males and females in various industries in Taiwan. Female injuries were more common in industries such as construction (53.1%), manufacturing (36.1%) and services (8.4%) (See Table 3), which is quite different from the distribution of occupational accidents in Sweden, where most injuries to females occur in agriculture (29.0/1000), manufacturing (28.5/1000) and commercial industries (26.4/1000) (Lindqvist et al, 1999). Similar to females, males had higher rates of fatal occupational injuries in construction (56.4%) and manufacturing (30.1%) industries, which confirms that blue-collar jobs are more dangerous than other jobs (Root, 1981;Chi and Wu, 1997).…”

“…lower work-related death and injury rates in females than in males (Dillingham, 1981;Buckley et al, 1996;Lindqvist et al, 1999;Chi et al, 2005). A possible cause of these gender differences is the increased likelihood of males being employed in outdoor jobs or in jobs with extreme conditions and dangerous tasks (Lindqvist et al, 1999;Chi et al, 2005).…”

“…This trend has been studied extensively in recent years (Cox and Cox, 1984;Blue, 1993;Zwerling et al, 1993;Kelsh and Sahl, 1996). Several studies have indicated that the rate of occupational deaths and injuries in males is typically much higher than that in females (Chi and Wu, 1997;Lindqvist et al, 1999). Conversely, Root and Daley (1980) reported that male and female workers have approximately equal occupational accident rates.…”

Young workers and sustainable work life

“…In one Swedish paper men had 67 injuries per 1,000 workers, while women had 14 (Lindqvist et al, 1999). Injury rates in Norway for men were found to be two (Bull et al, 1999) and three (Gravseth et al, 2003) times greater than for women.…”

Benefícios auxílio-doença concedidos aos trabalhadores empregados no ramo de carne e pescado no Brasil em 2008

“…A maior ocorrência de incapacidade para o trabalho entre as mulheres e o aumento de tal ocorrência com a idade, encontrada neste estudo, é confirmada tanto pela literatura nacional 3,7,8,9 quanto internacional 4,11,19,20,21,22,23 .…”