Accidents, Occupational - Trends
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Accidents associated with aerobatic maneuvers in U.S. aviation.

30 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: Aerobatic flights are the most significant risk factor for fatal injury and make up 50% of U.S. accidents in general aviation involving airport transport pilots. METHOD: An analysis of the dangers of these maneuvers is presented using 25 ... Read more...

The impact of the business cycle on occupational injuries in the UK.

26 May 2009 This paper investigates the cyclical fluctuations in rates of workplace injury for the UK from 1986 to 2005. Time series analysis shows that, in aggregate terms, the rate of minor injuries is pro-cyclical whilst the rate of major injury is not ... Read more...

Have government regulations improved workplace safety? A test of the asynchronous regulatory effects in China's coal industry, 1995-2006.

10 May 2009 PROBLEM: Empirical studies on the effectiveness of workplace safety regulations are inconclusive. This study hypothesizes that the asynchronous effects of safety regulations occur because regulations need time to become effective. Safety regulations ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Accidents, Occupational - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Accidents associated with aerobatic maneuvers in U.S. aviation. 30 Jul 2009
• The impact of the business cycle on occupational injuries in the UK. 26 May 2009
• Have government regulations improved workplace safety? A test of the asynchronous regulatory effects in China's coal industry, 1995-2006. 10 May 2009
• Crash rates of scheduled commuter and air carrier flights before and after a regulatory change. 30 Mar 2009
• Trends in components of medical spending within workers compensation: results from 37 states combined. 30 Jan 2009
• Patterns and trends in injuries due to chemicals based on OSHA occupational injury and illness statistics. 7 Jul 2008
• [Prevention of late consequences of mutagenic exposure on workers] 28 Feb 2008
• Ethnic disparities in traumatic occupational injury. 28 Feb 2008
• Racial/ethnic and gender differences in individual workplace injury risk trajectories: 1988-1998. 28 Jan 2008
• Pilot error in air carrier mishaps: longitudinal trends among 558 reports, 1983-2002. 30 Dec 2007
• [Safety and health in workers employed in industry. Data from Industrial Accidents Compensation Board (INAIL) and National Social Security Institute (INPS), Veneto Region, 1994-2002] 30 Dec 2007
• Occupational injuries reported in a population-based injury survey in Vietnam. 30 Dec 2007
• Fatal work-related accidents in UK merchant shipping from 1919 to 2005. 19 Dec 2007
• Injuries and seasonal risks among young workers in West Virginia--a 10-year retrospective descriptive analysis. 30 Aug 2007
• A review of 1985 Volvo Award winner in clinical science: objective assessment of spine function following industrial injury: a prospective study with comparison group and 1-year follow-up. 13 Aug 2007
• Military fatality rates (by cause) in Afghanistan and Iraq: a measure of hostilities. 19 May 2007
• Epidemiology of work-related injuries requiring hospitalization among sawmill workers in British Columbia, 1989-1997. 23 Apr 2007
• Characteristics of crashes with farm equipment that increase potential for injury. 30 Dec 2006
• Farm-related injury event, social consequences and injury reporting in the Land Lantbruk newspaper in Sweden: a retrospective study of farm-related injury reporting during 2000-2005. 29 Nov 2006
• Thermal burn and electrical injuries among electric utility workers, 1995-2004. 18 Nov 2006

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Technical information about 'Accidents, Occupational'

Definition: Unforeseen occurrences, especially of an injurious character due to factors involving one's employment. (From Dorland, 28th ed, p10)

Descriptor UI: D000062

Alternative terms: Accidents, Occupational; Occupational Accidents; Accident, Occupational; Occupational Accident; Accidents, Industrial; Industrial Accidents; Accident, Industrial; Industrial Accident;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; legislation & jurisprudence; mortality; prevention & control; psychology; statistics & numerical data; trends;

Tree Number: N06.850.135.240;

Online Note: use ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL to search ACCIDENTS, INDUSTRIAL 1966-78

History Note: 79; was in Cat G & J 1979-82, was ACCIDENTS, INDUSTRIAL in Cat G & J 1967-78 & Cat G & I 1963-66

Technical Notes: IM; coord with specific occupation (IM); DF: ACCIDENTS OCCUP