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The Age Factor in the Analysis of Occupational Risks in the Wood Industry
Workers in the wood industry are continually exposed to a wide range of risks. Some risks are potentially high and may lead to serious work-related accidents or occupational diseases. It is a sector where physical work is predominant and where high-risk machinery is used. There is also the age facto...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318104/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35885881 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10071355 |
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author | Araújo-Vila, Noelia Toubes, Diego R. Fraiz-Brea, Jose Antonio |
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description | Workers in the wood industry are continually exposed to a wide range of risks. Some risks are potentially high and may lead to serious work-related accidents or occupational diseases. It is a sector where physical work is predominant and where high-risk machinery is used. There is also the age factor, as the age of the workforce increases the risks of loss of skills, particularly physical skills. This study analyses the impact of age on the occupational safety and health management in the wood industry. To this end, a qualitative analysis was carried out through semi-structured in-depth interviews. A total of 52 interviews were conducted with wood-based entrepreneurs, occupational safety technicians and experts from Galicia (Spain). The results show that there is a growing concern to integrate the older group in occupational safety and health management due to the increasing work life. The older group is not the one with the greatest number of occupational accidents (8.3%), but rather the one that needs better working conditions in the face of physical deterioration, considering that a large proportion of senior workers is transferred to administrative tasks. Consequently, the proportion of older workers performing physical tasks, which are the tasks with the highest associated risk, is lower. |
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spelling | pubmed-93181042022-07-27 The Age Factor in the Analysis of Occupational Risks in the Wood Industry Araújo-Vila, Noelia Toubes, Diego R. Fraiz-Brea, Jose Antonio Healthcare (Basel) Article Workers in the wood industry are continually exposed to a wide range of risks. Some risks are potentially high and may lead to serious work-related accidents or occupational diseases. It is a sector where physical work is predominant and where high-risk machinery is used. There is also the age factor, as the age of the workforce increases the risks of loss of skills, particularly physical skills. This study analyses the impact of age on the occupational safety and health management in the wood industry. To this end, a qualitative analysis was carried out through semi-structured in-depth interviews. A total of 52 interviews were conducted with wood-based entrepreneurs, occupational safety technicians and experts from Galicia (Spain). The results show that there is a growing concern to integrate the older group in occupational safety and health management due to the increasing work life. The older group is not the one with the greatest number of occupational accidents (8.3%), but rather the one that needs better working conditions in the face of physical deterioration, considering that a large proportion of senior workers is transferred to administrative tasks. Consequently, the proportion of older workers performing physical tasks, which are the tasks with the highest associated risk, is lower. MDPI 2022-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9318104/ /pubmed/35885881 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10071355 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Araújo-Vila, Noelia Toubes, Diego R. Fraiz-Brea, Jose Antonio The Age Factor in the Analysis of Occupational Risks in the Wood Industry |
title | The Age Factor in the Analysis of Occupational Risks in the Wood Industry |
title_full | The Age Factor in the Analysis of Occupational Risks in the Wood Industry |
title_fullStr | The Age Factor in the Analysis of Occupational Risks in the Wood Industry |
title_full_unstemmed | The Age Factor in the Analysis of Occupational Risks in the Wood Industry |
title_short | The Age Factor in the Analysis of Occupational Risks in the Wood Industry |
title_sort | age factor in the analysis of occupational risks in the wood industry |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318104/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35885881 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10071355 |
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