The official data on fatal occupational injuries in Italy provided by INAIL (Workers’ Compensation Authority) are considered to be incomplete. During the period 2002-2004 ISPESL (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Prevention), INAIL and 18 Italian Regions set up a national epidemiologic surveillance system on fatal and severe work-related injuries, to study accident-related causal and contributing risk factors and circumstances. We linked the official INAIL data base in Apulia with the data base on injuries indipendently collected in the national epidemiologic surveillance system on fatal and severe work-related injuries. We estimated thecompleteness of INAIL official data by using the capture-recapture technique applied to the two data sources. A variant of the Haddon Matrix has been used to represent different influencing factors (host, agent/vehicle, physical environment, social/organizational environment) in the three phases of injury (preevent, event, and postevent). In Apulia, by ISPESL-INAIL-Regions database, we collected 153 fatal (61%) and severe (39%) work-related injuries reported during the period 2002-2004, 24% occurring in the building industry. This survey estimated that the real amount of fatal accidents is 13% higher than that reported by INAIL. Falls from elevation were by far the most frequently reported (56%).
Infortuni mortali e gravi sul lavoro in Puglia: ipotesi di un registro
VIMERCATI, LUIGI;
2006-01-01
Abstract
The official data on fatal occupational injuries in Italy provided by INAIL (Workers’ Compensation Authority) are considered to be incomplete. During the period 2002-2004 ISPESL (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Prevention), INAIL and 18 Italian Regions set up a national epidemiologic surveillance system on fatal and severe work-related injuries, to study accident-related causal and contributing risk factors and circumstances. We linked the official INAIL data base in Apulia with the data base on injuries indipendently collected in the national epidemiologic surveillance system on fatal and severe work-related injuries. We estimated thecompleteness of INAIL official data by using the capture-recapture technique applied to the two data sources. A variant of the Haddon Matrix has been used to represent different influencing factors (host, agent/vehicle, physical environment, social/organizational environment) in the three phases of injury (preevent, event, and postevent). In Apulia, by ISPESL-INAIL-Regions database, we collected 153 fatal (61%) and severe (39%) work-related injuries reported during the period 2002-2004, 24% occurring in the building industry. This survey estimated that the real amount of fatal accidents is 13% higher than that reported by INAIL. Falls from elevation were by far the most frequently reported (56%).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
