Interventions to prevent injuries in construction workers.

CONCLUSIONS: The vast majority of interventions to adopt safety measures recommended by standard texts on safety, consultants and safety courses have not been adequately evaluated. There is very low-quality evidence that introducing regulations as such may or may not result in a decrease in fatal and non-fatal injuries. There is also very low-quality evidence that regionally oriented safety campaigns, training, inspections or the introduction of occupational health services may not reduce non-fatal injuries in construction companies. There is very low-quality evidence that company-oriented safety interventions such as a multifaceted safety campaign, a multifaceted drug workplace programme and subsidies for replacement of scaffoldings may reduce non-fatal injuries among construction workers. More studies, preferably cluster-randomised controlled trials, are needed to evaluate different strategies to increase the employers' and workers' adherence to the safety measures prescribed by regulation.
PMID: 29400395 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - February 5, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: van der Molen HF, Basnet P, Hoonakker PL, Lehtola MM, Lappalainen J, Frings-Dresen MH, Haslam R, Verbeek JH Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research