Descriptive analysis of occupational accidents in Spain and their relationship with heatwaves.

Autor: Santurtún A; Unit of Legal Medicine, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Cantabria, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain. Electronic address: ana.santurtun@unican.es., Moraes SL; Department of Geography, School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil., Fdez-Arroyabe P; Department of Geography, Urban Planning and Territorial Planning, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain., Obregón M; Institute of Legal Medicine of Cantabria, Spain., Almendra R; Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT), Department of Geography and Tourism, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Colégio de São Jerónimo, University of Coimbra, 3004-530 Coimbra, Portugal.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Preventive medicine [Prev Med] 2023 Oct; Vol. 175, pp. 107697. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 04.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107697
Abstrakt: Objective: The purpose of this work is to carry out a descriptive analysis of occupational accidents and to evaluate the relationship between heatwaves and work accidents in Spain's three most populated provinces: Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.
Methods: Daily data of work accidents (including for each case: gender, age, date, length of time in the position, type of work, place of accident and duration of medical leave) was collected. A heatwave was defined when daily mean temperatures above the threshold (95th percentile) of the climatological period (1990-2021) were recorded for at least three consecutive days. To estimate the association between daily workplace accidents and heatwave events, we applied a Generalized Additive Model combined with a Distributed Lag Non-linear Model with a quasi-Poisson distribution.
Results: The average annual accident rate was 33.2 work accidents/100,000 employees in Madrid, 35.8 work accidents/100,000 employees in Barcelona and 31.8 work accidents/100,000 employees in Valencia. The total accident rates followed a downward trend between 2005 and 2021. The difference in work accident rates between sex decreased over the studied period (p < 0.005). In the first month of work, the highest casualty rate occurs among construction workers in Madrid and Barcelona, and in primary sector workers in Valencia. Work accidents tend to increase during heatwaves. The highest risk was recorded when considering a cumulative lagged effect of 3 days in Madrid and Barcelona and 5 days in Valencia.
Conclusions: Since work accidents increase during heatwaves, risk prevention services and public administrations must take special measures to prevent them.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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