Occupational safety and health guidelines in relation to COVID-19 risk, death risk, and case-fatality proportion: An international, ecological study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) began in 2019 with several unknown factors. The World Health Organization (WHO) subsequently developed COVID-19 occupational safety and health (OSH) guidelines to reduce occupational COVID-19 transmission. Many countries also developed their own COVID-19 OSH guidelines, but whether these guidelines included WHO's guidelines and whether including WHO's guidelines in countries' COVID-19 OSH guidelines reduced COVID-19 transmission is unknown.

Objectives

The objectives of our study were to (1) compare the COVID-19 OSH guidelines of several countries to WHO's OSH guidelines, (2) estimate associations between characteristics of countries and their OSH guidelines and the number of WHO's OSH guidelines included in countries' OSH guidel

SUBMITTER: Roberts M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8919368 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature