Global estimates of the burden of injury and illness at work in 2012

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 326-337

  Takala, Jukka ^a   Hämäläinen, Päivi ^b   Saarela, Kaija Leena ^c   Yun, Loke Yoke ^a   Manickam, Kathiresan ^a   Jin, Tan Wee ^a   Heng, Peggy ^a   Tjong, Caleb ^a   Kheng, Lim Guan ^a   Lim, Samuel ^a   Lin, Gan Siok ^a  

^a Workplace Safety and Health Institute   (Singapore)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Burden of injury and illness at work; global estimates; mortality; occupational accidents; occupational exposures; work related disease

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; WORKPLACE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84899072845     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2013.863131     Document Type: Article

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