• Preventive medicine · Oct 2023

    Descriptive analysis of occupational accidents in Spain and their relationship with heatwaves.

    • Ana Santurtún, Sara Lopes Moraes, Pablo Fdez-Arroyabe, María Obregón, and Ricardo Almendra.
    • Unit of Legal Medicine, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Cantabria, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain. Electronic address: ana.santurtun@unican.es.
    • Prev Med. 2023 Oct 1; 175: 107697107697.

    ObjectiveThe purpose of this work is to carry out a descriptive analysis of occupational accidents and to evaluate the relationship between heatwaves and work accidents in Spain's three most populated provinces: Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.MethodsDaily data of work accidents (including for each case: gender, age, date, length of time in the position, type of work, place of accident and duration of medical leave) was collected. A heatwave was defined when daily mean temperatures above the threshold (95th percentile) of the climatological period (1990-2021) were recorded for at least three consecutive days. To estimate the association between daily workplace accidents and heatwave events, we applied a Generalized Additive Model combined with a Distributed Lag Non-linear Model with a quasi-Poisson distribution.ResultsThe average annual accident rate was 33.2 work accidents/100,000 employees in Madrid, 35.8 work accidents/100,000 employees in Barcelona and 31.8 work accidents/100,000 employees in Valencia. The total accident rates followed a downward trend between 2005 and 2021. The difference in work accident rates between sex decreased over the studied period (p < 0.005). In the first month of work, the highest casualty rate occurs among construction workers in Madrid and Barcelona, and in primary sector workers in Valencia. Work accidents tend to increase during heatwaves. The highest risk was recorded when considering a cumulative lagged effect of 3 days in Madrid and Barcelona and 5 days in Valencia.ConclusionsSince work accidents increase during heatwaves, risk prevention services and public administrations must take special measures to prevent them.Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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