Statistical indicators for accidents at work in agriculture activity

Liability of employing authorities for accidents at work.

Risks of accidents at work in health professionals

Introduction / objectives Work accidents are events that occur in the environment of workers according to their activities. The work is an important human activity which brings a gain both professional and personal, but submittingfails as well . This study aims to analyze the main occupational risks that health professionals are subjected in their work activities, and reflect measures that can ...

Drudgery, accidents and injuries in Indian agriculture.

The Indian farming employs 225 million workforce to cover 140 million hectares of total cultivated land. In spite of rapid farm mechanization (e.g., 149 million farm machinery), the vast resource-poor family farming has primary dependence on traditional methods (e.g., 520 million hand tools and 37 million animal-drawn implements are in operation). The work drudgery, the traumatic accidents and ...

Statistical Inference at Work: Statistical Process Control as an Example

To characterise statistical inference in the workplace this paper compares a prototypical type of statistical inference at work, statistical process control (SPC), with a type of statistical inference that is better known in educational settings, hypothesis testing. Although there are some similarities between the reasoning structure involved in hypothesis testing and SPC that point to key char...

Work conditions and accidents in three industries.

Four studies conducted in the light metal, electrotechnical and printing industries are described. The purpose was to determine the applicability of the systems approach to occupational accidents. The data consisted of 291 accidents and 701 controls. The stable characteristics of the workers or the environments were not good predictors of accidents. The clearest differences between the accident...