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Although administration of a combination of these drags does delay progress of the disease, they are not totally effective. Thus in health care workers who had been infected in work-related accidents, administration of the drags did not prevent the progression to AIDS. The use of a combination of drugs at the optimal doses for their action is known as highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). 

Branday et al. [28] reported that 562 patients with acute chemical injuries were admitted to 8 regional hospitals in Jamaica during a 10-year period from 1981-1990 [28]. Chemical bums comprised 13.3% of all bum patients admitted during this time period. Nearly half (236 cases 42%) of these chemical bums resulted from deliberate assault, while only 10 of the total chemical bum cases (1.8%) were the result of work-related accidents. In one of the smdy hospitals, 38% of bum admissions were due to chemical bums and 2/3 of these were due to deliberate chemical assaults. Assailants were more likely to be female and victims were either male or other women over disputes involving a relationship with a male partner [28]. 

Damien Leger developed a special report for the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR). He estimated that the total cost of accidents attributable to sleepiness in 1988 was between 43.15 billion and 56.02 billion dollars (5). He reported that in 1988, the costs of all motor vehicle accidents ( 70.2 billion), work-related accidents ( 47.1 billion), home-based accidents ( 17.4 billion), and public accidents ( 10.9 billion) were 143.4 billion. Any duplications between work-related and motor-vehicle accidents and home-based and motor-vehicle accidents were eliminated in the total by the author. Thus, the total amount was less than the sums. 

B. Cost of Work-related Accidents Caused by Sleepiness... 

In 1988, the total cost of work-related accidents of 47.1 billion was based on 10,600 deaths and 1,800,000 disabling injuries. Included in the estimate of work-related accidents attributable to sleepiness were (a) motor-vehicle accidents due to shift work and on-the-job motor vehicle accidents (35.0% of total work-related accidents), (b) falls during work caused by sleepiness or inattention (12.6%), and (c) water and transportation accidents (4.8%). Therefore, of all work-related accidents, about 52.5% might potentially be related to sleepiness and then, accounting for 5565 fatalities and 945,000 disabling injuries, resulted in a cost of 24.7 billion. 

For the lower estimate, Leger assumed that the same proportion of injuries and fatalities resulted from maximum sleepiness-induced work-related accidents... 

Investigating and documenting all work-related accidents and neeir... 

Detailed inspection takes the form of inspection of problems or problem areas, including examination of work-related accidents, diseases and aUments. 

Salminen, S. (1996). Work-related accidents among young workers in Einland. International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2(4), 305-314. 

No uniform standard of compensation of work-related accidents, the majority of enterprises to industrial injury accident compensation has many man-made factors and random factors, generally at a failed to follow State, the amount of compensation is generally low, and the compensation is often not in place in time. Conflicts between employers and employees in turn, affects the social harmony and stabiUty, and become an urgent social problems. Lower compensation amount, the objective is also to make some employers do not pay attention to safety work, or even ignore the occurrence of accidents, further exacerbated by the frequent occurrence of accidents, injuries caught in the vicious cycle, is not conducive to safety. Meanwhile, the workers life, health, safety and other legal rights are not adequately protected. 

Work-related accidents in the UK cost industry over 11 billion each year. The coastal and maritime engineering sector constitutes a significant industry and makes therefore a significant contribution to this cost. 

Apart from the social benefits, avoiding work-related accidents improves the business case with other benefits such as ... 

RIDDOR stands for Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulation 1995, which is sometimes referred to as RIDDOR 95, or just RIDDOR for short. The HSE requires employers to report some work-related accidents or diseases so that they can identify where and how risks arise, investigate serious accidents and publish statistics and data to help reduce accidents at work. 

The principles which were laid down in the many Acts of Parliament and the regulations that we have already looked at in this chapter control our working environment. They make our workplace safer, but despite all this legislation, workers continue to be injured and killed at work or die as a result of a work-related injury. The number of deaths has consistently averaged about 200 each year for the past eight years. These figures only relate to employees. If you include the self-employed and members of the public killed in work-related accidents, the numbers almost double. 

Provides short-term (typically 26 weeks) income protection to employees who are unable to work due to a non-work-related accident or illness. 

The cost of workplace injuries is enormous. In 1992 the U.S. economy lost 115.9 billion from work-related accidents 62.5 billion from wage and productivity losses, 22.0 billion from medical costs, 14.5 billion from administration expenses, 3.4 billion from motor vehicle damages, 10.2 billion from indirect employer costs, and 3.3 billion from fire losses (National Safety Council 1993). In addition to monetary losses, work injuries cause pain and suffering and frequently result in permanent disabilities that impede the normal enjoyment of life. The National Safety Council (1993) estimated that for every dollar of monetary loss accidents lower the quality of life on average by two dollars. With a two-to-one quality-of-life loss ratio the total cost of workplace accidents in 1992 was 347.7 billion, about 5.8 percent of 1992 U.S. GDP. 

The resorting of workers and firms along the risk spectrum mitigates to a substantial extent OSHA s initial effectiveness in reducing work-related accidents and diseases. 

In the expected utility function (B3.1) P determines the loss of utility from a work-related accident or disease resulting in death or total disability, income held constant. Higher values of P imply greater ex ante utility from the provision for survivors, for example. Because the bequest motive is likely to be small we set P = 0.1 in the simulations. Workers experience a nine-tenths utility loss from an injury holding income constant. 

Every 15 seconds, a worker dies from a work-related accident or disease. 

One could debate whether existing compensation laws achieve their goals. For example, some thought that employers would become more interested in safety by becoming responsible for indemnification of injured workers. However, the competition among insurance companies for employers business may have done as much to increase employer interest in safety. Many insurance companies selling workers compensation insurance provide loss control services to employers. Preventing work-related accidents helps employers reduce claims and lower insurance premiums. 

Behavior-Based Safety a process designed to reduce the frequency of work-related accidents by first reducing the frequency of negative or inappropriate employee behaviors. 

Occupational health and safety management tools (including hazard identification and risk assessment, selection and implementation of appropriate hazard controls, developing proactive and reactive performance measures, understanding techniques to encourage employee participation and evaluation of work-related accidents and incidents)... 

Occupational Accident Work-related accident that results in illness, injury or death also known as industrial accident. 

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