The impact of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on work-related accidents in Austria in 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aims to investigate the impact of the lockdowns during the COVID-19 (Corona-Virus-Disease 19) pandemic in Austria on work-related accidents in the year 2020. Apart from the lockdowns, multiple work-related measures were introduced in 2020, such as the new law on short-term work and regulation on accidents during home-office. Their combined effects on work-related accidents are unknown and a secondary parameter of this study.

Methods

Daily data on the number of accepted and rejected cases of work-related accidents from the Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt were obtained for the years 2019 and 2020. Based on data provided by the World Health Organization and government publications, the beginning and end dates of national hard and soft lockdown period

SUBMITTER: Huber D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9003159 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature