Open AccessThe effect of rest breaks on time to injury – a study on work-related ladder-fall injuries in the United States
Author(s) -
Anna Arlinghaus,
David A. Lombardi,
Theodore K. Courtney,
David C. Christiani,
Simon Folkard,
Melissa J. Perry
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.3292
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , rest (music) , workload , injury prevention , hazard ratio , demography , occupational safety and health , poison control , physical therapy , emergency medicine , operating system , pathology , sociology , computer science
Rest breaks and other work-related temporal factors, such as time spent on task, influence theaccumulation of fatigue, and thus impact occupational injury risk. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectof rest breaks on "time to injury" (the time between start of work and injury) for injured workers treatedin a nationally representative sample of US emergency departments.