Public injury prevention system in the Italian manufacturing sector: What types of inspection are more effective?

Background: Literature suggests that more research is needed to clarify the effect of workplace inspections by governmental officers on injury rates. This paper aims to compare comprehensive and partial inspections in Italian manufacturing companies.

Methods: Survival analysis was applied to the period free from injuries following inspection by means of the Kaplan-Meier method and of Cox models.

[Domestic accidents: a study on children attending the emergency department of the city of Padua].

Objective: This study analyzes the causes of domestic accidents in children (age <15) living in the Local Social Sanitary Unit of Padua (Ulss). ME Italy, with regard to the circumstances of the accident and the socioeconomic level of the family.

Method: the subjects were recruited in the Emergency Department of the local hospital between January 15 and March 15, 2004 following an accident at home (n=392).