Publications by authors named "Rakel N Kling"
Background: Occupational noise might increase the risk of workplace injury through a variety of mechanisms, including interference with communication and increased stress.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of chronic noise exposure on serious workplace injury, and how the timing of exposure influenced risk.
Methods: The authors examined a cohort of 26 000 workers, who worked between 1950 and 1989.
Objectives: To investigate the effectiveness of a risk assessment system in reducing the risk of violence in an acute care hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Methods: Hospital violence incident rates (number of incidents/100,000 work hours) were calculated and compared pre, during and post implementation of the Alert System, a violence risk assessment system, at one acute care hospital. Poisson regression models were used to examine the effect of the Alert System on hospital-level violent incident rates.
Study Objective: To investigate the association between sleep problems and risk of work injuries among Canadian workers and to identify working groups most at risk for injuries.
Design: Population-based cross-sectional survey.
Setting: Canada Participants: Working-age respondents (15-64 years of age) who worked part or full-time in the last 12 months (n = 69,584).
Background: The high rate of violence in the healthcare sector supports the need for greater surveillance efforts.
Aim: The purpose of this study was to use a province-wide workplace incident reporting system to calculate rates and identify risk factors for violence in the British Columbia healthcare industry by occupational groups, including nursing.
Methods: Data were extracted for a 1-year period (2004-2005) from the Workplace Health Indicator Tracking and Evaluation database for all employee reports of violence incidents for four of the six British Columbia health authorities.