Version 1
: Received: 8 February 2024 / Approved: 9 February 2024 / Online: 9 February 2024 (13:16:55 CET)
How to cite:
Malta, G.; Fruscione, S.; Plescia, F.; Argo, A.; Cannizzaro, E. Accidents at Work: A Meta-Analysis to Improve Risk Assessment and Health Surveillance. Preprints2024, 2024020558. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0558.v1
Malta, G.; Fruscione, S.; Plescia, F.; Argo, A.; Cannizzaro, E. Accidents at Work: A Meta-Analysis to Improve Risk Assessment and Health Surveillance. Preprints 2024, 2024020558. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0558.v1
Malta, G.; Fruscione, S.; Plescia, F.; Argo, A.; Cannizzaro, E. Accidents at Work: A Meta-Analysis to Improve Risk Assessment and Health Surveillance. Preprints2024, 2024020558. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0558.v1
APA Style
Malta, G., Fruscione, S., Plescia, F., Argo, A., & Cannizzaro, E. (2024). Accidents at Work: A Meta-Analysis to Improve Risk Assessment and Health Surveillance. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0558.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Malta, G., Antonina Argo and Emanuele Cannizzaro. 2024 "Accidents at Work: A Meta-Analysis to Improve Risk Assessment and Health Surveillance" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0558.v1
Abstract
Occupational accidents, despite continuous safety updates, are still a scourge in the occupational and forensic spheres, constituting, among other things, the subject of a large share of litigation. Demographic data can help to understand the areas where the application of health surveillance is lacking. This meta-analysis sets out to analyze data from studies on accidents at work, focusing on the correlation between the areas in which accidents occur and whether or not personal safety equipment is used, about the different regulations in force. For the selection of the data, a systematic review was carried out according to the PRISMA guidelines, with the primary objective of identifying the trend of occupational accidents in specific geographical areas, which differ in terms of the attention paid to preventive aspects. The data we highlighted showed, regarding the type of accident, substantial differences between low-income countries and industrialized countries (stratified according to the Human Development Index) and, an overall indifference as to whether or not individual safety devices were used, revealing that, despite the continuous normative evolution in the field of safety at work, even today, the investigative data on the actual application of the regulations, during accidents at work, is underestimated and little researched.
Keywords
Work health; Health Surveillance; Safety equipment; Work accidents
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Other
Copyright:
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