Perspective on new evidence showing injury under-reporting among precarious workers

Surveillance data are essential to identify and target prevention for all public health activity, including occupational safety and health. Accurate and timely surveillance data are needed to identify new hazards, monitor prevention activity, plan interventions and to evaluate the efficacy of these interventions. All occupational health specialists need to understand the limitations of the surveillance data available to them in order to make the best use of the data in their work. The inadequacies of the surveillance system for nonfatal work-related injuries and illnesses in the USA have been well documented.1 On the other hand, some European countries with their national compensation programmes (eg, the Nordic countries) and labour force surveys (eg, UK) have been looked to as models to follow to improve non-fatal work-related injury and illness surveillance.1 The paper by Kreshpaj et al in this current issue2 and the previous recent...
Source: Occupational and Environmental Medicine - Category: Occupational Health Authors: Tags: Commentary Source Type: research