Public health approaches to occupational injury prevention: do they work?: Figure 1

Smith, Gordon S.

doi:10.1136/ip.7.suppl_1.i3

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“…2 This difference between Iran, a developing country, and Europe may be in part due to limitations in the quality of information, including access to official data sets. [3][4][5] However, the prevalence of work-related injuries is likely a result of different working conditions, safety precautions, and safety policies. ISSO has defined work-related accidents as accidents among insured employees at work or as a consequence of job insecurity.…”

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confidence: 99%

Work-related accidents among the Iranian population: a time series analysis, 2000–2011

Karimlou

Salehi

Imani

et al. 2015

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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Background: Work-related accidents result in human suffering and economic losses and are considered as a major health problem worldwide, especially in the economically developing world. Objectives: To introduce seasonal autoregressive moving average (ARIMA) models for time series analysis of work-related accident data for workers insured by the Iranian Social Security Organization (ISSO) between 2000 and 2011. Methods: In this retrospective study, all insured people experiencing at least one work-related accident during a 10-year period were included in the analyses. We used Box-Jenkins modeling to develop a time series model of the total number of accidents. Results: There was an average of 1476 accidents per month (1476.05¡458.77, mean¡SD). The final ARIMA (p,d,q) (P,D,Q) s model for fitting to data was: ARIMA(1,1,1)6(0,1,1) 12 consisting of the first ordering of the autoregressive, moving average and seasonal moving average parameters with 20.942 mean absolute percentage error (MAPE). Conclusions: The final model showed that time series analysis of ARIMA models was useful for forecasting the number of work-related accidents in Iran. In addition, the forecasted number of work-related accidents for 2011 explained the stability of occurrence of these accidents in recent years, indicating a need for preventive occupational health and safety policies such as safety inspection.

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confidence: 99%

Work-related accidents among the Iranian population: a time series analysis, 2000–2011

Karimlou

Salehi

Imani

et al. 2015

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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“…Further, the use of technical advances in new tractors that increase the automatic protection of tractor operators from runover events would also contribute to future reductions as the tractor fleet is replaced with newer models. Continuing education and training in the management of occupational health and safety risk on farms would also play a role, as in any well designed occupational health and safety program (National Committee for Injury Prevention and Control, 1989;Smith, 2001).…”

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Safe Tractor Access Platforms: From Guidance Material to Implementation

Day¹,

Rechnitzer²

2004

Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health

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ABSTRACT. This ractors account for 15% to 45% of work−related fatalities among those employed in agriculture in many industrialized countries including Australia, the U.S., Canada, and New Zealand (Myers et al., 1998;Brison et al., 1998;Langley et al., 1997;Clarke and Coleman, 1995;Day, 1999). Historically, rollover events have comprised the large majority of tractor fatalities. Runover events comprise the next largest proportion of tractor fatalities, and in some areas, runover events now account for a greater proportion of tractor−related deaths than rollovers (Lough and Day, 2001).Development and evaluation of appropriate interventions for tractor runover death and injury has lagged behind that for rollover events, possibly because runover events are not homogenous. At least five major types of runover events have been described in a detailed Australian case series study (table 1) (NOHSC, 2000). Falling from a moving tractor and being run over by the tractor or attached machinery was the most common,

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“…However, there are studies that look at prevention of work-related injuries. According to Smith (2001), there are four public health approaches to injury prevention in the workplace: surveillance and risk factor identification, intervention development and evaluation, identification/development of avoidance/control strategies and practical approaches to implementation. He further identifies the design of engineering solutions, personal protective equipment and educational interventions as major components of the intervention programmes.…”

Section: Prevention Of Spinal Cord Injuries In the Workplacementioning

confidence: 99%