Prevalence of construction worker injuries in the last 5 years and influencing factors of some years / Монголын Анагаах Ухаан

ABSTRACT

Background@#According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), 2.78 million workers are injured and killed each year as a result of occupational diseases, while 374 million are injured. Furthermore, work-related injuries cost the global economy 4% of its GDP. Construction workers are more likely than other workers to die and twice as likely to be injured. Construction accidents are frequently caused by a lack of knowledge and training, negligence, and inadequate safety equipment. Workers account for 70% of the factors influencing accidents, 49% of workplace problems, 56% of equipment shortages, 27% of material conditions, and 84% of risk management. Between 2009 and 2017, 3321 industrial accidents and acute poisoning cases were reported in Mongolia. 509 people died as a result of industrial accidents, 761 people became disabled as a result of injuries, and 2051 people temporarily lost their ability to work. As a result, determining the distribution, causes, and factors of accidents is reasonable. @*Purpose@#To detect the prevalence and influencing factors of accidents in the construction industry in the last 5 years.@*Material and Method@#Secondary data was collected using a quantitative research method based on a single-moment model of observational research from the "General Directorate of Professional Supervision" quantitative data on industrial accidents and acute poisoning by sampling 10 groups and 59 indicators of accident cases in the construction industry.@*Result@#The prevalence of accidents in the construction industry was calculated for 1000 workers in Ulaanbaatar's 21 provinces and 9 districts using the ARC GS program. For the calculation of influencing factors and injury causes at www.graphpad.com, P values less than 0.05 was considered significant. </br> Between 2017 and 2021, 134 accidents and injuries were reported in Mongolia's construction industry. All accidents were male in 123 cases (92%), and female in 11 cases (8%). </br> Accidents and injuries in the construction industry are distributed. In Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar had 66 cases, Umnugovi had 10, Orkhon had 10, and Khovd province had 12, all of which had more accidents than other provinces. Calculating the distribution per 1000 workers, Sukhbaatar has 20, Dornogovi has 15, Umnugovi has 12, and Khovd has 10.9.</br> The most important factors influencing construction accidents are the workplace environment and human factors. In terms of accident causes, falling, tripping, or slipping caused 55 or 41% of all accidents, falling objects caused 24 or 18%, being trapped by objects caused 19 or 14%, and 20 or 15% were remaining causes of injuries. In the last 5 years, 47 or 35.07% of all accidents were caused by workplace environment, 45 or 33.5% by human factors, 23 or 17.1% by management system, and 19 or 14.1% by technical and technological factors.@*Conclusions@#</br>1. In the last five years, the prevalence of accidents among construction workers is 16.3 per 1000. The prevalence is 42.9% (66) highest in Ulaanbaatar City, 20.1% (27) in Khan-Uul district, and 8.9% (12) in Khovd province. The prevalence per 1000 workers is 20 in Sukhbaatar, 15.7 in Dornogovi, 12 in Umnugovi, and 10.9 in Khovd, with a high prevalence of 1.07 in Ulaanbaatar. </br>2. Human factors, such as falling from a height due to noncompliance with safety rules, limited space in the workplace and environment, and falling into pits, wells, ditches, and excavated pits, are the leading causes of injuries and accidents. Closed fractures and head injuries are the most common.