New workers face higher risks
It is s not a worker's age, but how long they have been in the job that determines the level of risk, according to a major review. The paper concludes there should be renewed efforts to raise awareness of the issue, introduce protective policies and to ensure “worker empowerment.”
A team led by Curtis Breslin of the Toronto-based Institute for Work & Health (IWH) searched the peer-reviewed literature for articles published between 1995 and January 2018 on job tenure and risk of work injury. It found 128 studies meeting review criteria, requiring: they were quantitative studies about people doing paid work; they examined the length of time working at a particular job, firm or industry; and they had a method for taking into account other factors that may have affected risk of work injury. After studies were assessed for quality, the team was left with 51 medium- and high-quality studies. The review confirmed that risks of acute injury are higher during workers’ first year at a job or a firm. However, the evidence on the risks of musculoskeletal symptoms, injuries or disorders during workers’ first year at a job or a firm was ‘inconclusive’.
Read more: At Work, issue 97, Institute for Work & Health, Summer 2019.
FC Breslin et al. Are new workers at elevated risk for work injury? A systematic review, [Abstract] Occupational and Environmental Medicine, volume 76, issue 9, pages 694-701, 2019. doi:10.1136/oemed-2018-105639 Source: Risks 911
pdf arquivo (https://oem.bmj.com/content/oemed/76/9/694.full.pdf)
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