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The relationship between worker, occupational and workplace characteristics and whether an injury requires time off work: A matched case‐control analysis in Ontario, Canada
Author(s) -
Smith Peter,
Chen Cynthia,
Mustard Cameron,
HoggJohnson Sheilah,
Tompa Emile
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.22420
Subject(s) - medicine , work (physics) , workers' compensation , occupational injury , occupational safety and health , incentive , logistic regression , occupational medicine , work time , demographic economics , working time , human factors and ergonomics , control (management) , compensation (psychology) , poison control , environmental health , actuarial science , occupational exposure , psychology , business , social psychology , economics , mechanical engineering , management , pathology , engineering , microeconomics
Background The objective of this study was to examine individual, occupational, and workplace level factors associated with time loss following a similar injury. Methods Seven thousand three hundred and forty‐eight workers’ compensation claims that did not require time off work were matched with up to four claims that required time off work on the event, nature, and part of body injured as well as injury year. Conditional logistic regression models examined individual, occupational, and workplace level factors that were associated with the likelihood of not requiring time off work. Results Employees from firms with higher premium rates were more likely to report no time loss from work and workers in more physically demanding occupations were less likely to report no time loss from work. We observed no association between age or gender and the probability of a time loss claim submission. Conclusions Our results suggest that insurance costs are an incentive for workplaces to adopt policies and practices that minimize time loss following a work injury. Am. J. Ind. Med. 58:402–410, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.