Predicting the Impact of Chronic Health Conditions on Workplace Productivity and Accidents

Frey, Jodi Jacobson; Osteen, Philip; Berglund, Patricia A.; Jinnett, Kimberly; Ko, Jungyai

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“…An aging workforce has been associated with reduced productivity and increased accident rates [37, 38]. Adverse health conditions affect workplace productivity, through absenteeism, productivity and accidents at DOE National Laboratories [39]. …”

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“…There are many contributing factors that affect the risk from exposures, including demographics (age gender), geography, chronic health conditions, and sleep deprivation that may result from shift work [8, 39]. While this paper does not focus on these factors that affect both exposure and risk, some need mentioning, including age, shift work, and level of ecological worker.…”

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“…Many employers in several industries are dependent upon an older workforce [39], but this level of experience is accompanied by a higher accident rate [59 – 63]. It is not only older workers, however, that are vulnerable to increased accident rates, but there are elevated accident rates among younger workers as well, and these vary somewhat regionally [1].…”

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Health Risks to Ecological Workers on Contaminated Sites - The Department of Energy as a Case Study

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2016

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Background At most contaminated sites the risk to workers focuses on those ‘hazardous waste workers’ directly exposed to chemicals or radionuclides, and to the elaborate approaches implemented to protecting their health and safety. Ecological workers generally are not considered. Objectives To explore the risks to the health and safety of ecological workers on sites with potential chemical and radiological exposures before, during or after remediation of contamination. To use the U.S. Department of Energy as a case study, and to develop concepts that apply generally to sites contaminated with hazardous or nuclear wastes, Methods Develop categories of ecological workers, describe their usual jobs, and provide information on the kinds of risks they face. Ecological activities include continued surveillance and monitoring work on any sites with residual contamination, subject to institutional controls and engineered barriers following closure as well as the restoration. Results The categories of ecological workers and their tasks include 1) Ecological characterization, mapping and monitoring, 2) biodiversity studies, 2) Contaminant fate and transport, 3) On-going industrial activities 4) Remediation activities (environmental management), 5) Environmental restoration, 6) Post-cleanup surveillance and monitoring, and 7) Post-closure future site activities. There are a set of functional activities that can occur with different frequencies and intensities, including visual inspection, collecting biological samples, collecting media physical samples, collecting biological debris, restoration planting, and maintaining ecosystems. Conclusions Ecological workers face different exposures and risks than other environmental cleanup workers. Many of their tasks mimic shift work with long hours leading to fatigue, and they are exposed to biological as well as chemical/radiological hazards. DOE and other entities need to examine the risks to ecological workers on site with an eye to risk reduction.

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“…The ways in which chronic health problems impact one’s experience at work has been explored among groups of workers with specific health conditions such as depression (9), back pain (10), and arthritis (11), and in multiple industries including financial services (12), laboratory sciences (13), and health care (14–16). In general, the findings of these studies suggest that as chronic health conditions worsen, an individual’s work experience is adversely affected.…”

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The relationship between organizational policies and practices and work limitations among hospital patient care workers

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“…Goetzel et al 11 also found that factors related to high biometric laboratory values (eg, blood pressure), alcohol/tobacco use and emotional problems were associated with higher presenteeism (ie, poor job performance). Frey et al 12 found that some psychosocial factors (eg, poor sleep) were associated with higher presenteeism.…”

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Health risk factors as predictors of workers' compensation claim occurrence and cost

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ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to examine the predictive relationships between employee health risk factors (HRFs) and workers' compensation (WC) claim occurrence and costs.MethodsLogistic regression and generalised linear models were used to estimate the predictive association between HRFs and claim occurrence and cost among a cohort of 16 926 employees from 314 large, medium and small businesses across multiple industries. First, unadjusted (HRFs only) models were estimated, and second, adjusted (HRFs plus demographic and work organisation variables) were estimated.ResultsUnadjusted models demonstrated that several HRFs were predictive of WC claim occurrence and cost. After adjusting for demographic and work organisation differences between employees, many of the relationships previously established did not achieve statistical significance. Stress was the only HRF to display a consistent relationship with claim occurrence, though the type of stress mattered. Stress at work was marginally predictive of a higher odds of incurring a WC claim (p<0.10). Stress at home and stress over finances were predictive of higher and lower costs of claims, respectively (p<0.05).ConclusionsThe unadjusted model results indicate that HRFs are predictive of future WC claims. However, the disparate findings between unadjusted and adjusted models indicate that future research is needed to examine the multilevel relationship between employee demographics, organisational factors, HRFs and WC claims.

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Predicting the Impact of Chronic Health Conditions on Workplace Productivity and Accidents

Abstract: Results suggest that chronic conditions in this workforce are prevalent and costly. Efforts to prevent or reduce condition comorbidity among employees with multiple conditions can significantly reduce costs and workplace accident rates.

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Health Risks to Ecological Workers on Contaminated Sites - The Department of Energy as a Case Study

Health Risks to Ecological Workers on Contaminated Sites - The Department of Energy as a Case Study

The relationship between organizational policies and practices and work limitations among hospital patient care workers

Health risk factors as predictors of workers' compensation claim occurrence and cost

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