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Work-related road traffic injury: a multilevel systems protocol

BACKGROUND: Although road traffic injury is reported as the leading cause of work-related death in Australia, it is not clear, due to limitations in previous methods used, just how large a burden it is. Many organisations are unaware of the extent of work-related road traffic injury and, importantly...

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Autores principales: Newnam, Sharon, Sheppard, Dianne M, Griffin, Mark A, McClure, Roderick J, Heller, Gillian, Sim, Malcolm R, Stevenson, Mark R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4112426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24478230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2013-041132
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author Newnam, Sharon
Sheppard, Dianne M
Griffin, Mark A
McClure, Roderick J
Heller, Gillian
Sim, Malcolm R
Stevenson, Mark R
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Sheppard, Dianne M
Griffin, Mark A
McClure, Roderick J
Heller, Gillian
Sim, Malcolm R
Stevenson, Mark R
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description BACKGROUND: Although road traffic injury is reported as the leading cause of work-related death in Australia, it is not clear, due to limitations in previous methods used, just how large a burden it is. Many organisations are unaware of the extent of work-related road traffic injury and, importantly, what can be done to reduce the burden. The proposed research will (i) estimate the prevalence of work-related road traffic injury and (ii) identify the organisational determinants associated with work-related road traffic injury. METHODS AND DESIGN: The current study is designed to enumerate the problem and identify the individual driver-level, the supervisor-level and organisational-level factors associated with work-related road traffic injury. The multilevel systems protocol will involve a series of cross-sectional surveys administered to drivers of fleet vehicles (n=1200), supervisors of the drivers (n=1200) and senior managers (n=300) within the same organisation. DISCUSSION: The novel use of the multilevel systems protocol is critical to be able to accurately assess the specific determinants of driving safety within each context of an organisation. RESULTS: The results are expected to highlight that reducing injury in the workplace requires more than just individual compliance with safety procedures. It will also establish, for the first time, an occupational translation taskforce to ensure that the research findings are adopted into work-place practice and thereby directly contribute to reductions in work-related road traffic injury.
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spelling pubmed-41124262014-08-01 Work-related road traffic injury: a multilevel systems protocol Newnam, Sharon Sheppard, Dianne M Griffin, Mark A McClure, Roderick J Heller, Gillian Sim, Malcolm R Stevenson, Mark R Inj Prev Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Although road traffic injury is reported as the leading cause of work-related death in Australia, it is not clear, due to limitations in previous methods used, just how large a burden it is. Many organisations are unaware of the extent of work-related road traffic injury and, importantly, what can be done to reduce the burden. The proposed research will (i) estimate the prevalence of work-related road traffic injury and (ii) identify the organisational determinants associated with work-related road traffic injury. METHODS AND DESIGN: The current study is designed to enumerate the problem and identify the individual driver-level, the supervisor-level and organisational-level factors associated with work-related road traffic injury. The multilevel systems protocol will involve a series of cross-sectional surveys administered to drivers of fleet vehicles (n=1200), supervisors of the drivers (n=1200) and senior managers (n=300) within the same organisation. DISCUSSION: The novel use of the multilevel systems protocol is critical to be able to accurately assess the specific determinants of driving safety within each context of an organisation. RESULTS: The results are expected to highlight that reducing injury in the workplace requires more than just individual compliance with safety procedures. It will also establish, for the first time, an occupational translation taskforce to ensure that the research findings are adopted into work-place practice and thereby directly contribute to reductions in work-related road traffic injury. BMJ Publishing Group 2014-08 2014-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4112426/ /pubmed/24478230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2013-041132 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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Sheppard, Dianne M
Griffin, Mark A
McClure, Roderick J
Heller, Gillian
Sim, Malcolm R
Stevenson, Mark R
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4112426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24478230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2013-041132
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