Near miss and minor occupational injury: Does it share a common causal pathway with major injury?

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-75

  Alamgir, Hasanat ^a   Yu, Shicheng ^a   Gorman, Erin ^a   Ngan, Karen ^a   Guzman, Jaime ^a  

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

Author keywords

Healthcare workers; Major injury; Minor injury; Near miss; Occupational injury

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 58149391551     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20641     Document Type: Article

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