Testing the associations between leading and lagging indicators in a contractor safety pre-qualification database

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Ind Med
• Personal Author:
  Manjourides, Justin ; Dennerlein, Jack T.
• Description:
  Background
  
  Safety prequalification methods lack validation in predicting construction company’s worker injuries.
  
  Methods
  
  Safety assessments from 2198 construction contractors including Safety Management (SMS), Safety Programs (e.g. falls, hearing protection), and Special Elements (drug testing, return to work) scales were compared to their recordable injury cases (RC) and injuries involving days away, restricted, or transferred (DART).
  
  Results
  
  SMS and Special elements were related to injury rates. Each one-point increase in SMS values was associated with 34% reduced odds of a recordable case rate greater than zero (Odds ratio (OR): 0.66, 95% Confidence Interval (CI): (0.57, 0.79)), and a 9% reduced recordable case rate, if one occurs (Risk Ratio (RR): 0.91, 95% CI: (0.88, 0.94)). A one-point increase in SMS was associated with 28% reduced odds of a DART (OR=0.72, 95%CI (0.56, 0.91)), and 9% reduced DART rate, if one occurs (RR=0.91, 95%CI (0.87, 0.95)).
  
  Conclusions
  
  These results suggest the need for safety management systems in subcontractors.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Construction Industry Databases, Factual Ear Protective Devices Humans Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Reproducibility Of Results Return To Work Safety Management Substance Abuse Detection

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• Source:
  Am J Ind Med. 62(4):317-324
• Pubmed ID:
  30724373
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7666568
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U60 OH009762/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; U60OH009762/ACL/ACL HHS/United States ; Center for Construction Research and Training/International
• Name as Subject:
  United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
• Place as Subject:
  Canada ; United States
• Volume:
  62
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9cdf9da46ce81448d7cd14ade240dd830b131115ae130f794664e35c8087a08f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/97298/cdc_97298_DS1.pdf
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