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Accident Risk in the Production Sector of EU Countries-Cohort Studies

International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021-03, Vol.18 (7), p.3618 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Accident Risk in the Production Sector of EU Countries-Cohort Studies
  • Author: Nowacki, Krzysztof
  • Subjects: Accidents ; Cohort analysis ; Cohort Studies ; Comparative analysis ; Employees ; European Union ; France ; Germany ; Humans ; Hypotheses ; Industrial production ; Industrial safety ; Italy ; Manufacturing ; Manufacturing industry ; Netherlands ; Occupational safety ; Portugal ; Spain ; Sustainable development ; Sweden ; United Kingdom
  • Is Part Of: International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021-03, Vol.18 (7), p.3618
  • Description: (1) Background: accident rates prove the uneven development of the member countries in the area of work safety. Remedial actions and structural programmes should take into account, e.g., the level of work safety in all European Union (EU) countries. Aim: the identification of differences in the level of work safety in the production sector of EU countries, especially the so-called "old" and "new" EU countries. (2) Methods: for each country UE (in 2008-2018), the relative risk (RR) of an accident at work was determined and a comparative analysis was conducted. (3) Results: an increase in the RR of an accident at work was observed along with an increase in the GDP of a given country. It was found that the level of occupational safety in Sweden and the United Kingdom is higher than in other countries, and lower in Spain and Portugal. In the three largest economies of the EU, Germany, France, and Italy, the RR of the accident in the industrial sector in relation to the national data is one of the lowest in the entire EU, not exceeding 1.3. In The Netherlands, an increase of 1.7 RR of fatal accidents in the industrial sector was observed between 2008 and 2018. (4) Conclusions: RR in the manufacturing sector of the so-called "old" EU is higher than in the so-called "new" EU, which may result from the implementation of Industry 4.0 assumptions in the "old" EU. The presented results and conclusions may be useful in shaping the EU policy in the field of sustainable development of production sectors of individual member countries.
  • Publisher: Switzerland: MDPI AG
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1660-4601
    ISSN: 1661-7827
    EISSN: 1660-4601
    DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18073618
    PMID: 33807270
  • Source: Freely Accessible Journals
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    ProQuest Central

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