Occupational injury among cooks and food service workers in the healthcare sector

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 528-535

  Alamgir, Hasanat ^a   Swinkels, Helena ^b   Yu, Shicheng ^a   Yassi, Annalee ^a,b,c,d  

^a Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare in British Columbia   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c University of British Columbia ^*  (Canada)

^d Division of Occupational Medicine

Author keywords

Cooks; Food service workers; Healthcare sector; Injury; Occupational

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CATERING SERVICE; CONTUSION; COOKING; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COOKERY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOOD SERVICES; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34447284060     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20475     Document Type: Article

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