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Time pressure, lack of control over work tasks, long working hours, shift work, lack of support and moral injury are important risk factors for occupational stress, burnout and fatigue among health workers.
- Chapter 21: Selected occupational risk factors
This chapter examines the disease and injury burden produced...
- Chapter 21: Selected occupational risk factors
The realization that work will continue to change in the future requires that the field of occupational safety and health include but go beyond traditional concerns such as exposures to chemical, physical and biological agents and focus on an expanded paradigm that addresses the interaction occupational and individual risk factors, the work-life continuum and ultimately on operationalizing and ...
Sep 27, 2024 · The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimate that 1.9 million people died from occupational risk factors globally in the year 2016. 1,2. Of these work-related deaths, diseases accounted for 81%, while injuries comprised 19%.
- The WHO/ILO Joint Estimates are the official estimates of WHO and ILO on the burden of disease attributable to occupational risk factors. 1,2 They...
- The occupational risk factor with the largest number of attributable deaths is exposure to long working hours (≥ 55 hours per week); it was respons...
- Worldwide in 2016, the health outcome with the largest work-related burden of deaths was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (450 000 deaths), fo...
- On average across the globe, 34.3 deaths occurred per 100 000 working-age population (i.e. age ≥ 15 years) in 2016. The Region of South-East Asia a...
- Men carry a larger work-related burden of disease than women. Compared to the death rate for both sexes (34.3 deaths per 100 000 working-age popula...
- The death rates for people aged 55 years and over were higher than the rate for all age groups (34.3 deaths per 100 000 working-age population). Th...
- Governments, in consultation with workers and employers, can act to prevent work-related burden of disease. 4 Governments need to ensure universal...
- The global Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) and its framework were developed by WHO with partners in the 1990s. 10 It quantifies burden of disease...
Jul 15, 2004 · This chapter examines the disease and injury burden produced by selected occupational risk factors: occupational carcinogens, airborne particulates, noise, ergonomic stressors and risk factors for injuries.
Employees in non-healthcare occupations may be in several ways exposed to infectious agents. Improved knowledge about the risks is needed to identify opportunities to prevent work-related infectious diseases. The objective of the current study was ...
Four major global factors include the (i) UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals; (ii) revised Occupational Health and Safety Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standard; (iii) the ISO 45001; and (iv) ILO Guidelines on Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems.
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May 7, 2021 · PDF 14.01 MB. Workers around the world are facing a global health crisis due to occupational exposure to toxic chemicals. Many of these workers lose their life following such exposures, succumbing to fatal diseases, cancers and poisonings, or from fatal injuries following fires or explosions.
