Accident Risk among People Employed in Poland—A Retrospective Cohort Study

Krzysztof Nowacki, Beata Oleksiak, Karolina Łakomy and Teresa Lis
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Krzysztof Nowacki: Department of Management and Production Engineering, Faculty of Materials Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 2A Street, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Beata Oleksiak: Department of Management and Production Engineering, Faculty of Materials Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 2A Street, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Karolina Łakomy: Department of Management and Production Engineering, Faculty of Materials Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 2A Street, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Teresa Lis: Department of Management and Production Engineering, Faculty of Materials Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 2A Street, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 6, 1-11

Abstract: The article presents studies aimed at determining the relative risk of accidents at work in all age groups of employees and the trend of possible changes in risk as a function of time in the years 2008–2018. The studies were conducted on the basis of statistics of accidents at work in Poland in the years 2008–2018. The data were collected from statistical yearbooks published by the Polish Central Statistical Office. The database covered 732,460 accidents at work. A retrospective cohort analysis of the relative risks for each year and the entire population was carried out. Through sensitivity testing, changes in the summary effect resulting from the removal of a given study were determined. The group with the highest average relative risk of accidents at work (2.59) were employees aged 18–19 years. An increase in relative risk was observed among employees aged +60 years. The smallest relative risk (0.33) was determined among employees under 18 years of age, who in Poland are mainly trainees and students.

Keywords: accident rate; cohort analysis; occupational risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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