Injury Rate as an Indicator of Business Success

Holizki, Theresa; Nelson, Lewis S.; McDonald, Renée

doi:10.2486/indhealth.44.166

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“…(Buckley et al, 2008; Fabiano et al, 2004; Fenn and Ashby, 2004; Hinze and Gambatese, 2003; Jeong, 1998; Mendeloff et al, 2006; Morse et al, 2004; Page, 2009) Efforts to prevent those injuries and fatalities are important because of the human loss, but also because they may threaten the survival of small businesses which are viewed as engines of job creation and economic growth. A study of business survival rates of new, presumably smaller businesses in Canada found that those that survived for at least five years had less than half the rate of occupational injuries in their first year of operation as those that survived for only one to two years (Holizki et al, 2006). …”

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Safety activities in small businesses

Sinclair

Cunningham

2014

Safety Science

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Background Workplace injuries occur at higher rates in smaller firms than in larger firms, and the number of workplace safety activities appear to be inversely associated with those rates. Predictors of safety activities are rarely studied. Methods This study uses data from a national random survey of firms (n = 722) with less than 250 employees conducted in 2002. Results We found that, regardless of firm size or industry, safety activities were more common in 2002 than they were in a similar 1983 study. Having had an OSHA inspection in the last five years and firm size were stronger predictors of safety activities than industry hazardousness and manager’s perceptions of hazardousness. All four variables were significant predictors (β range .19 to .28; R2 = .27). Conclusions Further progress in the prevention of injuries in small firms will require attention to factors likely subsumed within the firm size variable, especially the relative lack of slack resources that might be devoted to safety activities.

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Safety activities in small businesses

Sinclair

Cunningham

2014

Safety Science

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“…That's smart. Compared with small companies that survive only 1 to 2 years, those that stay in business for at least 5 years had less than half the rate of occupational injuries in their first year [Holizki et al 2006]. Research focusing on top-level managers suggests that their attitudes and actions play a significant role in their organizations' occupational safety performance [Rundmo and Hale 2003].…”

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Building a safety program to protect the nanotechnology workforce: a guide for small to medium-sized enterprises.

Hodson¹,

Hull²

2016

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“…Moreover, occupational injuries could constitute, due to their nature, a valid indicator to measure how the prevention, health and safety system is organized in the company and, therefore, a potential indicator as to the effectiveness of prevention schemes implemented in the workplace (34). Occupational health professionals should always demonstrate the effectiveness of their interventions, which can be done through a number of measurable indicators (e.g.…”

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“…time required to return to work, duration of work inability, absenteeism, psychosocial factors, fit for work assessment after an injury, etc. ); this approach is not designed to produce statistically relevant results but rather to demonstrate that the action taken may affect the causes and circumstances of accidents thus decreasing the rate of workplace injuries and that such interventions prove beneficial also from a cost-effectiveness point of view (33,34). The skills of the occupational health physician in the field of accident prevention should include:…”

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“…It might be useful to develop workplace accident statistics based on a number of different variables, such as age, sex, national origin, work duration, diagnosis, therapies, limitations, sick leave, biological monitoring, alcohol consumption, psychosocial factors, occupational history, etc. (9,34). Health surveillance must lead to the formulation of the fit for work assessment, which should be conducted in full compliance with the technical and ethical guidelines governing the activities of occupational health professionals.…”

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Health surveillance and occupational risk prevention

Casale¹

2015

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Health surveillance aims at safeguard health and ensure the greatest possible protection against occupational risks and for this reason it should ensure hazard and risk control in the working environment as well as providing an appropriate detection and assessment of specific risks associated to every enterprise. The main changes in the global economy and the reorganization of services and production processes led to many changes in working life conditions and employers responsibilities, bring to the urgent need for the development and adaptation of the equipment and working methods in view of ensuring a proper protection, promotion and management of health, environment and safety issues at the corporate level. Today industrial accidents still affect significant cost in terms of not only economic but also social matters and for this reason we must emphasize the important role of occupational medicine in injury prevention through the protection and promotion of workers' health, the improvement of working and production systems, the encouragement of a "working" culture to improve the health and safety of workers in the broadest sense, both individually and collectively. Therefore, in order to prevent workplace accidents, the occupational physician should develop a methodology taking into account a whole range of factors, including the personal ones, which can be correlated to the risk to be injured planning and enacted effectiveness, efficiency, fairness and ethics interventions. Health surveillance should allow the identification of workers and/or groups of workers with the highest frequency and the greatest risk of injury, in order to direct preventive efforts in the right direction with multidisciplinary interventions through development of full cooperation not only with employers, workers and their representatives but also with other professionals may have been involved. Only through close cooperation and joint efforts of the professionals involved that you will be to reduce the number, severity and, therefore, the weight that workplace accidents have on society today.

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Injury Rate as an Indicator of Business Success

Cited by 8 publications

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Safety activities in small businesses

Safety activities in small businesses

Building a safety program to protect the nanotechnology workforce: a guide for small to medium-sized enterprises.

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