Occupational injuries among emergency responders

Reichard, Audrey A.; Jackson, Larry L.

doi:10.1002/ajim.20772

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“…First, large standard errors associated with the small sample sizes restrict detailed reporting of injury characteristics (Reichard & Jackson, 2010). Second, the national estimates reported in this study are probably underestimates due to the difficulty in case identification of correctional officers with certainty.…”

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Occupational Injuries among U.S. Correctional Officers, 1999-2008

Konda

Reichard

Tiesman

2012

Journal of Safety Research

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Objective-This study describes fatal and nonfatal occupational injuries among U.S. correctional officers.Methods-Fatal injuries were obtained from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries; nonfatal injuries were identified from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-Occupational Supplement. [1999][2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008], there were 113 fatalities and an estimated 125,200 (CI=±70,100) nonfatal injuries were treated in emergency departments. Assaults and violent acts (n = 45, 40%) and transportation related fatalities (n = 45, 40%) were the two primary fatal injury events. Assaults and violent acts (n = 47,500 (CI = ±24,500), 38%) and bodily reaction and exertion (n = 25,400 (CI = ± 16,800), 20%) were the leading events resulting in nonfatal injuries. Results-FromConclusions-While workplace violence is the primary cause of both fatal and nonfatal injuries among correctional officers, transportation events and bodily reactions are also leading causes of occupational injury. Future research is needed to identify risk factors unique to these events and develop appropriate prevention and intervention efforts.Impact on Industry-This study adds to the literature on occupational injuries among correctional officers and provides a national level description of fatal and nonfatal injuries across a 10-year period. Given that assaults and violent acts, transportation events, and bodily reaction and exertion were significant injury events, future research should describe detailed injury circumstances and risk factors for correctional officers unique to these events. This would allow appropriate prevention and control efforts to be developed to reduce injuries from these events.

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Occupational Injuries among U.S. Correctional Officers, 1999-2008

Konda

Reichard

Tiesman

2012

Journal of Safety Research

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“…The coding of occupation has many unique features compared to coding other types of open responses: coders must assign a description to one of hundreds of possible codes rather than just a handful, the open answers are short and factual rather than long and attitudinal, and occupation coders who make this their profession become very skilled. The data about occupation that are produced through the coding process are commonly used to study various phenomena occurring in the labor force, including sex segregation (Anker 1998), work-related injuries (Cawley and Homce 2003;Layne 2004;Reichard and Jackson 2010), health-related exposures (Kromhout et al 1993;Hammond et al 1995;Kauppinen et al 2000), wage inequality (Lettau 2003;Heywood and O'Halloran 2005;Bjerk 2007), mobility (Shniper 2005;Moscarini and Thomsson 2007), and occupational projections (Rosenthal 1992).…”

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Classifying Open-Ended Reports: Factors Affecting the Reliability of Occupation Codes

Conrad

Couper

Sakshaug

2016

Journal of Official Statistics

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A source of survey processing error that has received insufficient study to date is the misclassification of open-ended responses. We report on efforts to understand the misclassification of open occupation descriptions in the Current Population Survey (CPS). We analyzed double-coded CPS descriptions to identify which features vary with intercoder reliability. One factor strongly related to reliability was the length of the occupation description: longer descriptions were less reliably coded than shorter ones. This effect was stronger for particular occupation terms. We then carried out an experiment to examine the joint effects of description length and classification "difficulty" of particular occupation terms. For easy occupation terms longer descriptions were less reliably coded, but for difficult occupation terms longer descriptions were slightly more reliably coded than short descriptions. Finally, we observed as coders provided verbal reports on their decision making. One practice, evident in coders' verbal reports, is their use of informal coding rules based on superficial features of the description. Such rules are likely to promote reliability, though not necessarily validity, of coding. To the extent that coders use informal rules for long descriptions involving difficult terms, this could help explain the observed relationship between description length and difficulty of coding particular terms.

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“…Being a police officer is recognized as a dangerous occupation [1][2][3]. An American study has found a much higher occupational fatality rate in police officers when compared with the national average [4].…”

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Association between sleep duration and sleep quality, and metabolic syndrome in Taiwanese police officers

Chang¹,

Huang²,

Lin³

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Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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Objectives: This study's objective was to examine association between sleep duration and sleep quality, and metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components in Taiwanese male police officers. Material and Methods: Male police officers who underwent annual health examinations were invited to join the study and eventually a total of 796 subjects was included in it. The study subjects were divided into 5 groups according to the length (duration) of sleep: < 5, 5-5.9, 6-6.9, 7-7.9 and ≥ 8 h per day, and the global Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index was used to categorize their sleep quality as good or poor. To analyze the association between sleep problems and MetS, adjusted odds ratio and respective 95% confidence intervals (CI) were computed. Results: The prevalence of MetS in Taiwanese male police officers was 24.5%. Abdominal obesity had the highest proportion (36.2%) among 5 components of MetS. More than 1/2 of the police officers (52.3%) had poor sleep quality. Police officers with higher scores of sleep disturbances had a higher prevalence of MetS (p = 0.029) and abdominal obesity (p = 0.009). After adjusting for age, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, smoking status, alcohol drinking habit, physical habitual exercise, snoring and type of shift work, the police officers who slept less than 5 h were 88% more likely to suffer from abdominal obesity than those who slept 7-7.9 h (95% CI: 1.01-3.5). Sleep quality was not associated with MetS and its components. Conclusions: The police officers who slept less than 5 h were more likely to experience abdominal obesity in Taiwan, and those with higher scores of sleep disturbances had a higher prevalence of MetS and abdominal obesity. It is recommended that police officers with short sleep duration or sleep disturbances be screened for MetS and waist circumference in order to prevent cardiovascular diseases.

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Occupational injuries among emergency responders

Abstract: The physical demands of emergency response are a leading cause of injuries that may benefit from similar interventions across the occupations. To assess risk, improved exposure data need to be acquired, particularly for volunteers.

Cited by 130 publications

References 10 publications

Occupational Injuries among U.S. Correctional Officers, 1999-2008

Occupational Injuries among U.S. Correctional Officers, 1999-2008

Classifying Open-Ended Reports: Factors Affecting the Reliability of Occupation Codes

Association between sleep duration and sleep quality, and metabolic syndrome in Taiwanese police officers

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