AHFE Open AccessThe Ups and Downs of Accidents’ Figures – the Portuguese Case Study Revisited
Abstract
Safety at work can be considered a current concern, especially when lacking safety results in fatal accidents. In accordance with current Portuguese legislation, companies need to establish a safety management structure to comply with the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) program objective and to obtain certification. This study has proceeded with the study initiated in 2018 related to accidents’ occurrence reported analysis in Portugal in 2008-2015. In a way, the present analysis allowed not only to update the accident incidence rates (including recent years from 2016 to 2019) and to revise the figures of the Portuguese reality concerning the numbers associated to fatal accidents at work but also to identify what can be done, reflections and solutions that could be used to diminish the data regarding the number of accidents’ occurrence.
Keywords: Occupational accident rate, Incidence rate, Statistics
DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1002648
Cite this paper
More from this volume
- Validation of a Video-based System to Determine Heart Rate for Stress Monitoring
- Work-related diseases as a challenge for institutionalized prevention in a changing world of work
- Activity simulation in Radiology: Chest X-Ray in bed-ridden patients
- Adverse Events in Dental Care: A Review Towards Notification
- Technology and Young Adult Visual Acuity Degradation Symptoms
- Training in Traffic Safety Culture Based on Risk Factor Analysis for Urban Road Accident Prevention: Case Study Rio Verde – Goiás - Brazil
- Perspectives on Human Performance and Safety Management in NTSB Rail and Highway Accident Investigations
- Reanalyzing the FPSO CSM accident (2015) with a Human Factors approach to understand the contribution of organizational elements and complexities
- Selection and implementation of Evidence based Safety Performance Indicators in Aviation Training
- Expanded Method of Accident Analysis and Prevention – MAPAEX: an incident analysis in a railway company
- Towards an action-oriented safety culture maturity scale
- Construction and Evaluation of Influencing Factor Evaluation System Model for Campus Safety Awareness