BACKGROUND Falling asleep at work is receiving increasing attention as a cause of work accidents. AIMS To investigate which variables (related to work, lifestyle, or background) are related to the tendency to fall asleep unintentionally, either during work hours, or during leisure time. METHODS 5589 individuals (76% response rate) responded to a questionnaire. A multiple logistic regression...

Due to the inadequacy in measures at many construction sites in Turkey, approximately 400 workers died and hundreds of workers become permanently disabled in occupational accidents. Occupational accidents cause serious financial loss for both the company and the country economies. This study is conducted to analyze causes and results of occupational accidents at a construction site in Istanbul-...

OBJECTIVE To examine the problem of accidental injury to children on farms. DESIGN Prospective county based study of children presenting to accident and emergency departments over 12 months with injuries sustained in a farm setting and nationwide review of fatal childhood farm accidents over the four years April 1986 to March 1990. SETTING Accident and emergency departments in Aberystwyth, ...

Half of all Swedish forests are owned by private individuals, and at least 215,000 people work in these privately owned forest holdings. However, only lethal accidents are systematically monitored among self-employed forest workers. Therefore, data from the registries of the Swedish Work Environment Authority, the Labor Insurance Organization and the regional University Hospital in Umeå were ga...

Background & Aims of the Study: Hospital safety is a critical issue since hospitals are more vulnerable than other places to traumatic incidents. Investigation of occupational accidents in hospitals could prevent these events and preserve human and financial resources. With this background in mind, the present study aimed to investigate the occupational accident and its related factors in two u...

INTRODUCTION Nowadays maxillofacial fractures have increased. In this study prevalence of different kinds of maxillofacial fractures and their associated factors are surveyed in patients referred to Imam Khomeini Hospital, Urmia in 2011. METHODS The study was across-sectional observational study. 637 cases of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of maxillofacial fractures in 2011 referred to I...

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 ...

Background: Non-organizational or non-occupational factors are among the most important risk factors that significantly influence the emergence of occupational accidents. This study aimed to investigate the association between non-organizational factors and occupational accidents. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive study the structural equation modeling was applied on the data that was...