The impact of major transformations of a production process on age-related accident risks: a study of an iron-ore mine
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The impact of major transformations of a production process on age-related accident risks : a study of an iron-ore mine. / Blank, V L; Laflamme, L; Diderichsen, Finn.
I: Accident Analysis & Prevention, Bind 28, Nr. 5, 1996, s. 627-36.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The impact of major transformations of a production process on age-related accident risks
T2 - a study of an iron-ore mine
AU - Blank, V L
AU - Laflamme, L
AU - Diderichsen, Finn
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - This paper describes a study of whether accident risks were equally distributed across age categories among a population of mining workers whose work activities were suspected to be age-impaired. The impairment factors in focus are the transformation of production technology during the 80s and consequent changes in job content. It was hypothesized that the combined effect of these factors might lead accident risks, both non-specific (aggregated) and specific (by kind), to increase with age. Accident risk ratios (ARRs), however, proved to be higher for younger workers than older ones, in both the non-specific and the specific cases. However, two accident patterns (specific risks) also show relatively high ARRs among workers in their 40s (and even 30s), results that might be explained by particular exposures and/or age-related performance problems. The findings suggest that technological changes designed to increase productivity and reduce staffing levels more rapidly affect efficiency and productivity than they do accident occurrence, and that they penalize young workers in the first instance.
AB - This paper describes a study of whether accident risks were equally distributed across age categories among a population of mining workers whose work activities were suspected to be age-impaired. The impairment factors in focus are the transformation of production technology during the 80s and consequent changes in job content. It was hypothesized that the combined effect of these factors might lead accident risks, both non-specific (aggregated) and specific (by kind), to increase with age. Accident risk ratios (ARRs), however, proved to be higher for younger workers than older ones, in both the non-specific and the specific cases. However, two accident patterns (specific risks) also show relatively high ARRs among workers in their 40s (and even 30s), results that might be explained by particular exposures and/or age-related performance problems. The findings suggest that technological changes designed to increase productivity and reduce staffing levels more rapidly affect efficiency and productivity than they do accident occurrence, and that they penalize young workers in the first instance.
KW - Accidents, Occupational
KW - Adult
KW - Age Factors
KW - Confidence Intervals
KW - Efficiency
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Mining
KW - Poisson Distribution
KW - Risk
KW - Sweden
KW - Technology
KW - Wounds and Injuries
U2 - 10.1016/0001-4575(96)00035-8
DO - 10.1016/0001-4575(96)00035-8
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 8899044
VL - 28
SP - 627
EP - 636
JO - Accident Analysis & Prevention
JF - Accident Analysis & Prevention
SN - 0001-4575
IS - 5
ER -
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