A prospective study of the relationship of potential personal, non-occupational, occupational, and psychosocial risk factors with occupational injury /
The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors associated with occupational injury in workers engaged in manual materials handling jobs. Personal and non-occupational, occupational, and psychosocial risk factor data were gathered for 442 participants employed in fifteen different manual mat...
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors associated with occupational injury in workers engaged in manual materials handling jobs. Personal and non-occupational, occupational, and psychosocial risk factor data were gathered for 442 participants employed in fifteen different manual materials jobs. Physiological tests, questionnaires, and rigorous job analyses were used to obtain the 126 variables analyzed in the current research. Company OSHA 200 forms were tracked for each participant for a period of one year following the testing protocol. Univariate logistic regression was performed on all variables and multivariate logistic regression was performed for each risk factor group (personal and non-occupational, occupational, and psychosocial). In addition, an overall blocked multivariate logistic model was executed to determine the most occupational injury related subset of covariates. The present study showed significant evidence of the predictability of occupational injury occurrence through the significant related risk factors presented in the three independently grouped (personal and non-occupational, occupational, and psychosocial) univariate and multivariate models. The overall multivariate injury model demonstrated a statistically significant association of six risk factors with occupational injury. Increased injury susceptibility was related with low estimated aerobic power (odds ratio (OR) = 4.20), low body mass index (OR = 5.32 - 8.09), high lifting frequency (OR = 4.57), increased average weight of lift (OR = 1.82), participants responding their job was not a service to the public (OR = 2.97), and job dissatisfaction (OR = 10.78). Results of this investigation might be used to assist ergonomic programs to focus on the personal, non-occupational, occupational, and psychosocial changes that result in occupational injury reductions in manual materials handling industries. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major Subject: Interdisciplinary Engineering". |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 278 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. + 1 CD ROM. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-276). |