BACKGROUND Technical, human, operational and organizational factors have been influencing the sequence of occupational accidents. Among them, organizational factors play a major role in causing occupational accidents. The aim of this research was to understand the Iranian safety experts' experiences and perception of organizational factors. METHODS This qualitative study was conducted in 2015...

The objective was to evaluate trends in incidence and mortality due to occupational accidents in Brazil from 1998 to 2008. This was a time-trend series study that included cases of occupational accidents recorded in official Federal government statistics. The authors calculated annual percentage changes (APC) in incidence and mortality rates with the Joinpoint method using the calendar year as ...

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND Today, occupational accidents are one of the most important problems in industrial world. Due to lack of appropriate system for registration and reporting, there is no accurate statistics of occupational accidents all over the world especially in developing countries. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is epidemiological assessment of occupational accidents in Iran. M...

background : the implementation of hse programs is so complicated in tunneling industry which is considered as one of the risky industries. this study aims at investigating the relationship between employees' safety attitudes and status of their belief in destiny, chance and perceived importance of hse programs in occurrence of occupational accidents. methods : this research is a cross-sectiona...

During the last two decades, incidence rates of occupational accidents have been decreasing in Brazil. Mortality has also decreased, but not as sharply as incidence. Changes in reporting of occupational accidents have been the main argument used to explain such trends. This time-series study covering occupational accidents from 1970 to 1995 clearly shows the link between occupational accidents ...

This is intended to improve working conditions, reduce pollution in the working environment, prevent occupational accidents and occupational diseases, provide health care for workers, raise awareness, ensure compliance with Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) laws; and to protect physical safety and the life of workers, assets of the State, of business and of the organization; all of which wil...

background because of occupational accidents, permanent disabilities and deaths occur and economic and workday losses emerge. objectives the purpose of the present study was to investigate the factors responsible for occupational accidents occurred in iran. patients and methods the current study analyzed 1464 occupational accidents recorded by the ministry of labor and social affairs’ offices i...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the extent of implementation of occupational safety and health measures in micro-scale enterprises (MSEs) and to assess the prevalence of occupational injuries and accidents and its relationship with occupational safety and health measures provided in the MSEs. METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted among 595 of MSEs. An index called the Safety a...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to identify high-risk groups for industrial accidents by setting up 2003 as the base year and conducting an in-depth analysis of the trends of major industrial accident indexes the index of industrial accident rate, the index of occupational injury rate, the index of occupational illness and disease rate per 10,000 people, and the index of occupational ...