Safety climate as a predictor of work ability problems in blue-collar workers: prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate whether safety climate items would be predictive of future physical and mental work ability among blue-collar workers.

Methods

Blue-collar workers (n=3822) from the Danish Work Environment and Health study replied to questions on safety climate, physical and mental work ability, and health in 2012 and 2014. Using multivariate logistic regression, we estimated the association of number of safety climate items (0-5) in 2012 with physical and mental work ability in 2014. Potential confounders included sex, age, socioeconomic class, occupational group, lifestyle (smoking habits and body mass index) and previous accidents.

Results

In the fully adjusted model, workers reporting two and three or more safety climate problems (reference: 0) had higher ri

SUBMITTER: Brandt M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7929880 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature