Wigglesworth Eric
Monash University Accident Research Centre, Victoria.
Aust N Z J Public Health. 2006 Dec;30(6):505-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-842x.2006.tb00776.x.
To examine by hour of day and day of week the 750,000 compensation claims that were lodged by male workers in Queensland, Australia, during the 20-year period from 1968 to 1988, including an investigation into some possible reasons for the increased number of claims on Mondays and the reduced number of claims on Fridays.
The study was based on the collection entitled Industrial Accident Statistics (Bulletin 79), published annually by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Queensland office. This was the only State collection to include data on compensated injuries categorised by hour of day and day of week. There was no Australia-wide dataset of compensated occupational injuries.
Compensation claims were not evenly distributed through the working week. There were more injuries on Mondays (23.6% of the total) than on Tuesdays (21.8%), than on Wednesdays (20.3%), than on Thursdays (18%), than on Fridays (16.3%). There were more injuries in the mornings than in the afternoons for every day of the working week.
This study confirms the existence of a steady reduction in workers' compensation injury claims on successive days of the working week. One possible explanation for this finding is offered as a basis for further research into the reasons for this trend. Hopefully, the results of these and later studies may suggest remedial measures that will help reduce the number of occupational injuries.
按一天中的小时数和一周中的日期，对1968年至1988年这20年间澳大利亚昆士兰州男性工人提出的75万起赔偿索赔进行审查，包括调查周一索赔数量增加和周五索赔数量减少的一些可能原因。
该研究基于澳大利亚统计局昆士兰办公室每年发布的名为《工业事故统计》（第79号公报）的数据集。这是该州唯一包含按一天中的小时数和一周中的日期分类的工伤赔偿数据的数据集。没有全澳大利亚范围的工伤赔偿数据集。
赔偿索赔在工作周内分布不均。周一的受伤人数（占总数的23.6%）多于周二（21.8%）、周三（20.3%）、周四（18%）和周五（16.3%）。工作周的每一天，上午的受伤人数都多于下午。
本研究证实了工作周连续几天工人赔偿工伤索赔稳步减少的情况。这一发现的一种可能解释被提出，作为对这一趋势原因进行进一步研究的基础。希望这些及后续研究的结果可能会提出有助于减少职业伤害数量的补救措施。
