Risk factors for worker injury and death from occupational light vehicles crashes in New South Wales (Australia)

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 931-939

  Stuckey, Rwth ^a   Glass, Deborah C ^a   LaMontagne, Anthony D ^b   Wolfe, Rory ^a   Sim, Malcolm R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Light vehicles; Occupational health; Work deaths; Work driving

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAR; CAR DRIVING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGISTER; RISK; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW SOUTH WALES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77956165974     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20854     Document Type: Article

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