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2. Workplace safety in healthcare settings - Wikipedia

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   Workplace safety in healthcare settings is similar to the workplace safety concerns in most occupations, but there are some unique risk factors, such as chemical exposures, and the distribution of injuries is somewhat different from the average of all occupations.

3. Occupational injury - Wikipedia

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   In a study in the state of Washington, injured workers were followed for 14 years to determine the long term effects of work injury on employment. The work injuries resulted in an average of 1.06 years of lost productivity for each of the 31,588 allowed claims. [16] In 2010, 25% of occupational injuries and illnesses that were not fatal but ...

4. Workers suffer the most injuries in these 25 jobs - AOL

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   In 2020, there were 1.4 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses that caused a worker to miss at least one day of work, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is a 28.5% ...

5. Occupational safety and health - Wikipedia

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   Immigrant worker populations often are at greater risk for workplace injuries and fatalities. For example within the United States, immigrant Mexican workers have one of the highest rates of fatal workplace injuries out of all of the working population.

6. Workplace fatalities on the rise: These are the top 10 most ...

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   Fatal injury rates are determined by measuring the number of workplace deaths per 100,000 "full-time worker equivalents," which controls for the fact that different jobs have different schedules ...

7. Occupational fatality - Wikipedia

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   As a result, it is imperative that an employer address all the potential [risk] factors at the workplace and educate all employees in safe work practices and risk awareness. In order to perform adequate risk assessment of injuries that occur in the workplace, health and safety professionals use resources such as the Haddon Matrix. This model ...