Objectives Globalization has made many of the traditional occupational safety and health
risks worse due to the large number of new worker generations that have been exposed to …

Background Over the last decade, there have been several attempts to estimate the global
burden of ill health due to work activity. The most recent of these is the Comparative Risk …

Background Around the globe, work has a heavy impact on health. To better advise policy
makers, we assessed the global burden of disease and injury due to selected occupational …

Developed countries have made tremendous progress in Workplace Safety and Health in
terms of reducing the burden of occupational injuries caused by accidents. Developing …

Objective This paper reviews the present indicators, trends, and recent strategies to tackle
major global and European problems in safety and health at work. Methods We reviewed …

Reliable data on work-related injuries and fatalities are unavailable for most countries
around the world. This lack of credible data hampers efforts to improve work-place safety …

Occupational injuries, also called occupational accidents, have existed as long as the
humankind. Such injuries have often been considered to “go with the business.” Injuries are …

Background Occupational injuries are a public health problem, estimated to kill more than
300,000 workers worldwide every year and to cause many more cases of disability. We …

Methods The WHO comparative risk assessment used a common statistical model that
allows a reader to compare the contribution (attributable fraction) of several risk factors with …

Background The Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) project of the World Health
Organization (WHO) assessed worldwide mortality and morbidity in the year 2000 resulting …