TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1984//
TI  - A study of work injuries in eight Asian countries
JO  - Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
A1  - Ong, C. N.
A1  - Phoon, W. O.
A1  - Tan, T. C.
A1  - Jeyaratnam, J.
A1  - Cho, S. Charles
A1  - Suma'mur, P. K.
A1  - Mahathevan, R.
A1  - Reverente, B. R. Jr
A1  - Wongphanich, W.
A1  - Kogi, K.
SP  - 429
EP  - 434
VL  - 13
IS  - 2 Suppl
N2  - This study is based on a survey conducted in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand on occupational injuries during the years 1975-1980. The number of work accidents have risen rapidly during this period in all of the 8 countries studied. In the case of Thailand, the total number of work injuries increased four fold from 1975-1978, whereas, in Singapore it has almost doubled in 6 years. The number of permanent disablement nearly trebled in Korea, and the Philippines for the year 1967-1980. The largest percentage of accidents are lost-time injuries in all of the 8 countries. Thailand had a three fold increase in lost-time injuries whilst in Hong Kong the figure doubled. Six out of the 8 countries indicated that the building construction industry had the largest number of fatal accidents, followed by the manufacturing industry.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0304-4602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -