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Area of Science:

  • Occupational health and safety
  • Epidemiology
  • Workplace risk assessment

Background:

  • Occupational exposures pose significant risks to worker health.
  • Understanding sector-specific exposure prevalence is vital for targeted interventions.
  • Routine occupational health data can provide valuable insights into workplace hazards.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine the prevalence of various occupational exposures across different economic sectors.
  • To identify specific sectors with the highest exposure rates to physical, biomechanical, chemical, biological, psychosocial factors, and atypical working hours.
  • To quantify the risk (odds ratios) associated with these exposures in specific sectors.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized self-reported questionnaires from 19,891 workers followed by the Occupational Health Service of Cher.
  • Grouped activities into seven sectors and exposures into six occupational risk groups.
  • Employed Chi-squared test, Cramer's V for comparisons, and logistic regression for odds ratio calculation.

Main Results:

  • Construction sector showed highest prevalence for physical (76%), biomechanical (82%), and chemical (75%) exposures.
  • Human health and social work sector led in biological (69%), psychosocial (90%), and atypical working hours (61%) exposures.
  • Construction workers had higher odds of exposure to physical (OR=3.28), biomechanical (OR=1.82), and chemical (OR=3.83) factors. Human health/social workers had higher odds for biological (OR=13.4), atypical hours (OR=1.93), and psychosocial (OR=2.74) factors.

Conclusions:

  • Psychosocial risks are widespread across all sectors.
  • Construction and human health/social work sectors report higher overall exposures.
  • Analysis of occupational exposures is fundamental for creating effective preventive health strategies.