Relationships between certain individual characteristics and occupational accidents

Abstract

Background. Work accidents and injuries are an occupational health and safety problem. Methods. This cross-sectional study was conducted for 404 frontline workers who were randomly selected from the Arya Sasol Petrochemical Company in Bushehr, Iran, during 2016. A statistical analysis was performed using the χ² test and the logistic regression model with SPSS version 18. Results. The overall occupational accident rate among the participants was found to be 9.2%. Statistically significant differences were observed for body mass index, education, job experience, smoking habit, consumption of sedative pills and presence of sleep disorders. Three factors had significant adjusted odds ratios (ORs): body mass index (OR 2.41, 95% confidence interval [CI] [1.16, 5.04]), education (OR 0.25, 95% CI [0.07, 0.85]) and job experience (OR 0.29, 95% CI [0.15, 0.57]). Conclusions. Preventive programs should be implemented for industrial workers, especially young workers, workers who smoke, overweight workers and workers with psychosomatic disease.

Keywords:

• occupational accidents
• individual characteristics
• smoking habit
• psychotropic drug consumption

Acknowledgements

This study is part of a larger study conducted for a PhD dissertation that was approved by the Ethical Committee and was supported with a research grant at The National Petrochemical Company (NPC), Iran. The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to this center and all of the participants for cooperating in this study.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Mohammad Javad Jafari http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7283-4299

Abdullah Barkhordari http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8972-5627

Davood Eskandari http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6372-2030

Yadollah Mehrabi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9837-4956

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences [grant number 11765].