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The study reported in this paper analyzed the determinants of occupational accidents from a social and a working conditions combined perspective, considering the level of analysis of the European nation. Fatal and non-fatal work accidents in 2014, collected and provided by Eurostat, are correlated with country by country results of the 7th European Social Survey (ESS) (2014 data). This informs on work accident determinants of the European Social Dimensions reported on the ESS. Moreover, considering data from the 6th European Working Conditions Survey (2015 data), working conditions, on a country by country basis as well, are further considered and analyzed from the perspective of fatal and non-fatal accidents and from the perspective of social dimensions. This multiple pronged study of association unveils interesting associations between fatal and non-fatal work accidents and working conditions, as well as between fatal and non-fatal work accidents and social dimensions, and also, between social dimensions and working conditions, taking the European country as a unit of analysis. The findings shed light on the interconnectedness of the distinct domains under study, as well as informing policy development towards creating tailor made approaches suiting each particular country reality within the countries encompassed in the analysis.
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The current study was funded in part by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia project UID/EMS/00151/2013 C-MAST.
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Coelho, D.A. (2018). European Countries Social and Working Conditions Association with Fatal and Non-fatal Occupational Accidents. In: Arezes, P. (eds) Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 604. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60525-8_10
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