Individual-level and plant-level predictors of acute, traumatic occupational injuries in a manufacturing cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Workplace and contextual factors that may affect risk for worker injury are not well described. This study used results from an employee job satisfaction survey to construct aggregate indicators of the work environment and estimate the relative contribution of those factors to injury rates in a manufacturing cohort.

Methods

Principal components analysis was used to construct four plant-level factors from responses to a 32 question survey of the entire workforce, administered in 2006. Multilevel Poisson regression was used to evaluate the relationship between injury rate, individual-level and plant-level risk factors, unionisation and plant type.

Results

Plant-level 'work stress' (incident rate ratio (IRR)=0.50, 95% CI 0.28 to 0.90) was significant in the mu

SUBMITTER: Souza K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4078708 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature