The Interplay Between Supervisor Safety Support and Occupational Health and Safety Vulnerability on Work Injury

Yanar, Basak; Lay, Morgan; Smith, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.shaw.2018.11.001

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“…Bentley et al (2005) state that the accident rate decreased in New Zealand, as well, from 20 accidents per million hours worked in 1999 to 14 accidents in 2001. The decreasing accident rate could relate to improvements to the safety management systems in forestry enterprises and promoting safety programs in the industry [35][36][37]. We observed a similar trend considering the employees of FSR, when both the absolute numbers of OAs and IRC decreased, from 505 OAs in the year 2000 to 62 in the year 2017 and 3.88 IRC in the year 2000 to 1.80 IRC in the year 2017.…”

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What Are the Occupational Risks in Forestry? Results of a Long-Term Study in Slovakia

Martin

Allman

Allmanová

2019

IJERPH

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Temporal patterns in occupational safety and health can shed light on the efficiency of safety measures companies adopt and identify when workers are prone to occupational accidents. We analyzed these patterns to identify the effects of factors such as the share of salvage logging, experience, age, daytime, weekday, and more on the number of occupational accidents at Forests of the Slovak Republic (FSR). We analyzed a database of 2963 occupational accidents and 443 occupational illnesses suffered by FSR employees and contractors. We then analyzed a subset of said database, containing 401 accident records coded according to European Statistics at Work manual. We used regression and correlation analyses and generalized linear models to test the relationship between the accident frequency and volume of harvested timber and volume of salvage logging. We used logistic regression, chi2 tests, and Cramér’s V statistic to test when accidents occur within shifts, weeks, and months. We found the volume of harvested timber significantly affects the frequency of severe and fatal accidents of contractors (R 0.81; p < 0.05), whereas, for employees, the relationship was insignificant. Over time, the number of accidents and incidence rate decreased, and inexperienced or older workers were the most prone to accidents.

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What Are the Occupational Risks in Forestry? Results of a Long-Term Study in Slovakia

Martin

Allman

Allmanová

2019

IJERPH

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“…17,18 Furthermore, there exists an inverse relationship between supervisory engagement and the incidence of workplace injuries. [19][20][21] The history of industrial disasters across the globe is certainly full of examples of critical incidents in which lack of proper supervision was determined to be a major contributing factor. [22][23][24] It is clear that supervisors must be adequately prepared to carry out their safety responsibilities.…”

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Effectiveness of safety training interventions for supervisors: A systematic review and narrative synthesis

Sinelnikov

Bixler

Kolosh

2020

American J Industrial Med

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A wealth of research demonstrates that work unit supervisors serve a critical function in protecting the safety and health of workers. A systematic review examined the effectiveness of workplace safety training interventions intended for various supervisor populations published from 2000 to 2019. A search of seven electronic databases was supplemented with hand searches from the reference lists of identified publications, relevant scientific journals, and the gray literature. This review included an assessment of the methodological quality using a modified version of the Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies. A total of 22 peer‐reviewed studies met a set of inclusion criteria and were subsequently assessed for methodological quality. Training interventions were grouped into five topical domains: ergonomics, leadership, supervisor‐worker interaction, injury, and disability management, and general safety education. Consistent evidence was found for the effectiveness of supervisory training interventions across several outcome measures. To our knowledge, this is the first study to synthesize the literature on supervisory training interventions in the area of occupational safety. While the results are encouraging, they must be viewed with caution due to the fact that the methodological rigor of the reviewed studies was low.

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“…The concept of occupational vulnerability is evaluated from a social point of view [40] [41] or related to aspects such as work injuries [42] [43], but in all cases without quantifying and in no case related to the current COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Proposed Occupational Vulnerability Index COVID-19

Vicente-Herrero¹,

Torre²,

Balsa³

et al. 2020

ODEM

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Introduction: Vulnerable is someone who can be hurt or receive injury, physically or morally. The work environment appears as one of the dimensions in which social vulnerability develops and social and occupational vulnerability is defined. The literature does not include an assessment of quantified occupational vulnerability as it already exists in the case of social vulnerability. The aim of this paper is to identify and quantify the variables included in the Protocol for the Assessment of Vulnerability to COVID-19 in such a way that the result can be quantified and allows for a predictive effect on the degree of vulnerability. Methodology: The starting point is the design of a protocol proposal that includes 29 variables. Data is collected from a sample of 420 workers, quantifying the results according to each variable, the overall scores for each group of aspects assessed and, finally, the total score that estimates the degree of vulnerability according to established ranges. Results: Variables that have the highest coefficient and, therefore, the greatest weight in the probability of reaching a group of high or medium vulnerability are cardiovascular disease, cancer, and coagulation alteration. The weight of the labour aspects due to inadequate working conditions stands out. Conclusions: The results obtained with this protocol allow us to make a quantified assessment of labour vulnerability to COVID-19

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The Interplay Between Supervisor Safety Support and Occupational Health and Safety Vulnerability on Work Injury

Cited by 56 publications

References 53 publications

What Are the Occupational Risks in Forestry? Results of a Long-Term Study in Slovakia

What Are the Occupational Risks in Forestry? Results of a Long-Term Study in Slovakia

Effectiveness of safety training interventions for supervisors: A systematic review and narrative synthesis

Proposed Occupational Vulnerability Index COVID-19

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