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Introduction
Published in Terrence Sullivan, John Frank, Preventing and Managing Disabling Injury at Work, 2003
In 1995 alone, more than 400,000 Canadians lost time from work due to work injuries and the Workers’ Compensation Boards in Canada paid close to five billion dollars in benefits. With the addition of the indirect costs, the annual total cost of occupational injuries to the Canadian economy is estimated to be close to $9.9 billion (Liberty International Canada, 1995). Most occupational injuries are soft tissue injuries such as occupational back pain, sprains, strains and tendonitis. In fact, a developed country could spend more than 1% of its gross national product in dealing with the direct and indirect costs of back pain alone (van Tulder etal, 1995).
Comparison of the epidemiology and injury profile among injured patients involved in special purpose vehicle-related incidents in South Korea
Published in Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 2021
Hyun-Seok Chai, Sang-Chul Kim, So-Yeon Kong, Gwan-Jin Park, Ji-Han Lee, Hoon Kim, Seok-Woo Lee, Hae-Ju Lee, Kyoung-Moo Choi
Occupational injuries are one of the major public health problems globally and a leading cause of mortality and mortality with about 5–7% of all fatalities in industrial countries are attributed to work-related injuries.1 Mobile machineries or special purpose vehicles (SPVs), which are manufactured to improve production efficiency mainly in agriculture (tractor), industry and construction (forklift, crane, bulldozer, excavator, grader, etc.) can cause severe work-related injuries.2,3 SPVs are also known as heavy equipment, heavy machine, heavy-duty vehicle, heavy truck or construction equipment. Machines were the fourth leading cause of occupational fatalities in the U.S., accounting for 7.8% of all work-related deaths from 2011 to 2017 and annual machine-related death of 368.4 In Korea, excavator, dump truck, high place operation car, crane, and forklift are major causes of SPV-related injuries at workplace. The economic cost of the fatalities from work-related injuries was nearly 18.9 billion USD per year, and 971 cases of fatal occupational injuries by SPVs were reported in 2018, increasing from the 964 cases in 2017.4,5 As an effort to reduce work-related injuries and deaths, Korean Occupational Safety and Health Acts were promulgated on 15 January 2019.
Occupational falls: interventions for fall detection, prevention and safety promotion
Published in Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 2021
Sachini N. K. Kodithuwakku Arachchige, Harish Chander, Adam C. Knight, Reuben F. Burch V, Daniel W. Carruth
Work-related falls are a critical concern worldwide since it can affect a worker’s health as well as the productivity of the workplace. The health status of the worker is impacted as a consequence of falls that can cause a range of musculoskeletal and neuromuscular conditions. These consequences include, but not limited to; contusions, sprains, strains, lacerations, cuts, concussions, fractures, paralysis, head injuries and death (“National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor 2017; “Incidence Rates of Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illness by Industry and Case Types, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor 2017). Among the injury patterns, injuries to multiple body parts and injuries to the lower extremity, upper extremity, back, chest and head are commonly seen (Yoon and Lockhart 2006). Missing days at work and lack of efficiency due to injuries can reduce the productivity of the workplace. These resulting events endanger workers’ health as well as their quality of life which will have a considerable impact on the worker, family, workplace, and society. Additionally, expenditures for treatment, management, rehabilitation, compensation, and replacement workers will add to the financial burden of the workplace. In the United States of America, $70 billion is being allocated annually for medical expenditures and worker’s compensations following occupational falls (“United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 2014). Therefore, early detection and intervention solutions for the prevention of occupational falls have an important value in worker’s health, quality of life, productivity of the workplace, and country’s economy. This article provides a condensed summary of classical and innovative methods of fall prevention and detection established in the field of ergonomics.
A study on the effectiveness of non-verbal teaching materials in construction accidents prevention education: through an International comparative experiment
Published in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023
Tan Zi Yi, Kazuya Shide, Hirotake Kanisawa, Naoto Mine, Kazuki Otsu, Yohei Koga, Shunsuke Someya
Safety training is widely used intervention for preventing occupational injuries at work. Studies have showed that safety training is the effective method to educate and change the worker’s behaviours towards construction safety issues to reduce the construction accidents (Jaafar et al. 2017; Winge, Albrechtsen, and Mostue 2019; Casey et al. 2021; Vignoli et al. 2021; Wang, Jiang, and Blackman 2021) especially before and during the construction phases (Esmaeili and Hallowell 2012).