New data on health and safety at work in the EU27
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To study the occurrence of accidents resulting in injury and work-related health problems in the past 12 months in workers aged 15 to 64 years in the EU27 the Labour Force Survey (LFS) in Europe included in 2007 an ad hoc module on health and safety at work. The module consisted of four variables on accidents resulting in injury and five variables on work-related health problems. In the analysis, the wording of the questionnaires was first studied, and subsequently statistical analyses were performed. In total 3.2% of the persons that worked at the time of the survey administration or worked during the previous 12 months reported one or more accidents at work in the past 12 months (range 0.6% in Bulgaria to 6.3% in Finland), which corresponds to 6.9 million persons in the EU27. In 9.6% of the persons with an accident, the most recent accident was a road traffic accident (range 6.4% in Denmark to 28.5% in Poland). Among workers with an accident, 73.4% reported sick leave for at least one day and 22.0% sick leave for one month or more. The differences between countries were substantial, and may be related to differences in culture, policy, awareness, the wording of the questionnaires, and the use of proxies.
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Safety Science Monitor, 15(1)
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