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Winning at all costs: a review of risk-taking behaviour and sporting injury from an occupational safety and health perspective
Professional athletes involved in high-performance sport are at a high injury risk, which may lead to long-term health consequences. Professional athletes often expose themselves to risky behaviours, resulting in a higher acceptance level of occupational risk compared to other occupations. To date,...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497707/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31049736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-019-0189-9 |
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author | Chen, Yanbing Buggy, Conor Kelly, Seamus |
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description | Professional athletes involved in high-performance sport are at a high injury risk, which may lead to long-term health consequences. Professional athletes often expose themselves to risky behaviours, resulting in a higher acceptance level of occupational risk compared to other occupations. To date, many studies have focused on elite athletes’ specific injury prevention techniques. The objective of this narrative review is to (1) summarise elite athletes’ attitudes towards important occupational safety and health (OSH) practices, including injury reporting, medicine usage and personal protective equipment (PPE) usage, and (2) explore factors that may influence elite athletes’ injury awareness. If injury awareness were given a similar weighting in elite sports as in any other highly physical occupation, the potential benefits to elite athletes and their long-term health could be highly significant. This review identifies that most elite athletes are not aware that sporting injuries are occupational injuries requiring behaviours determined by OSH rules. All the 39 studies identified met the moderate methodological quality criteria according to the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT). The factors impeding athletes’ injury awareness from achieving occupational health standards are discussed from three safety management perspectives: organisational, societal and individual. This review contributes to a better understanding of how to build a positive safety culture, one that could reduce elite athletes’ injury rate and improve their long-term wellbeing. Further research is required to develop a quantitative measurement instrument to evaluate occupational health awareness in the sport context. Based on the papers reviewed, the study population was categorised as elite, professional, high-performance amateur and student-athletes. |
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spelling | pubmed-64977072019-05-21 Winning at all costs: a review of risk-taking behaviour and sporting injury from an occupational safety and health perspective Chen, Yanbing Buggy, Conor Kelly, Seamus Sports Med Open Review Article Professional athletes involved in high-performance sport are at a high injury risk, which may lead to long-term health consequences. Professional athletes often expose themselves to risky behaviours, resulting in a higher acceptance level of occupational risk compared to other occupations. To date, many studies have focused on elite athletes’ specific injury prevention techniques. The objective of this narrative review is to (1) summarise elite athletes’ attitudes towards important occupational safety and health (OSH) practices, including injury reporting, medicine usage and personal protective equipment (PPE) usage, and (2) explore factors that may influence elite athletes’ injury awareness. If injury awareness were given a similar weighting in elite sports as in any other highly physical occupation, the potential benefits to elite athletes and their long-term health could be highly significant. This review identifies that most elite athletes are not aware that sporting injuries are occupational injuries requiring behaviours determined by OSH rules. All the 39 studies identified met the moderate methodological quality criteria according to the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT). The factors impeding athletes’ injury awareness from achieving occupational health standards are discussed from three safety management perspectives: organisational, societal and individual. This review contributes to a better understanding of how to build a positive safety culture, one that could reduce elite athletes’ injury rate and improve their long-term wellbeing. Further research is required to develop a quantitative measurement instrument to evaluate occupational health awareness in the sport context. Based on the papers reviewed, the study population was categorised as elite, professional, high-performance amateur and student-athletes. Springer International Publishing 2019-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6497707/ /pubmed/31049736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-019-0189-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Chen, Yanbing Buggy, Conor Kelly, Seamus Winning at all costs: a review of risk-taking behaviour and sporting injury from an occupational safety and health perspective |
title | Winning at all costs: a review of risk-taking behaviour and sporting injury from an occupational safety and health perspective |
title_full | Winning at all costs: a review of risk-taking behaviour and sporting injury from an occupational safety and health perspective |
title_fullStr | Winning at all costs: a review of risk-taking behaviour and sporting injury from an occupational safety and health perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Winning at all costs: a review of risk-taking behaviour and sporting injury from an occupational safety and health perspective |
title_short | Winning at all costs: a review of risk-taking behaviour and sporting injury from an occupational safety and health perspective |
title_sort | winning at all costs: a review of risk-taking behaviour and sporting injury from an occupational safety and health perspective |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497707/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31049736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-019-0189-9 |
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