Ahn Y-S, Bena J F, Bailer A J
Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, Incheon, Korea.
Inj Prev. 2004 Aug;10(4):199-205. doi: 10.1136/ip.2003.004895.
To compare the profile of unintentional fatal occupational injuries in the Republic of Korea and the United States to help establish prevention strategies for Korea and to understand country specific differences in fatality risks in different industries.
Occupational fatal injury data from 1998-2001 were collected from Korea's Occupational Safety and Health Agency's Survey of Causes of Occupational Injuries (identified by the Korea Labor Welfare Corporation) and from the United States Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. Employment estimates were obtained in both countries. Industry coding and external cause of death coding were standardized. Descriptive analyses of injury rates and Poisson regression models to examine time trends were conducted.
Korea exhibited a significantly higher fatal injury rate, at least two times higher than the United States, after accounting for different employment patterns. The ordering of industries with respect to risk is the same in the two countries, with mining, agriculture/forestry/fishing, and construction being the most dangerous. Fatal injury rates are decreasing in these two countries, although at a faster rate in Korea.
Understanding industrial practices within different countries is critical for fully understanding country specific occupational injury statistics. However, differences in surveillance systems and employment estimation methods serve as caveats to any transnational comparison, and need to be harmonized to the fullest extent possible.
比较韩国和美国的非故意致命职业伤害情况，以帮助韩国制定预防策略，并了解不同行业中各国特定的死亡风险差异。
从韩国职业安全与健康局的职业伤害原因调查（由韩国劳动福利公司确定）以及美国致命职业伤害普查中收集1998 - 2001年的职业致命伤害数据。在两国均获取了就业估计数据。对行业编码和死因编码进行了标准化。进行了伤害率的描述性分析以及用于检验时间趋势的泊松回归模型分析。
在考虑不同就业模式后，韩国的致命伤害率显著更高，至少比美国高出两倍。两国危险行业的排序相同，采矿、农业/林业/渔业和建筑业最为危险。这两个国家的致命伤害率都在下降，不过韩国下降速度更快。
了解不同国家的行业做法对于全面理解各国特定的职业伤害统计数据至关重要。然而，监测系统和就业估计方法的差异是任何跨国比较的注意事项，需要尽可能充分地进行协调。
