@article{ref1,
title="The relation between accidents and output in Swedish industry",
journal="Journal of occupational accidents",
year="1982",
author="Lyttkens, Carl Hampus",
volume="4",
number="2-4",
pages="233-242",
abstract="Traditionally, occupational injury rates are measured as number of injuries per amount of work. In contrast, we propose that for certain purposes of economic policy, a more relevant measure could be obtained by considering them as production costs and comparing them with output. This was accomplished by replacing &quot;hours worked&quot; in the traditional formulae for estimating accident risk with &quot;value added&quot;. First, you get a different picture of the development and distribution of accidents and health when using output-related measures. Furthermore, a regression analysis associated a high technological level with a low accident/output ratio. Also, we found that in 1975, there would have been c. 50 % more accidents had the 1975-output been produced with 1963-technology and accident risks. Testing the hypothesis that accidents increase relatively during booms, we studied year-to-year changes in production and accidents. Normally, however, accidents increased less than the accident/output ratio indicated. In summary, then, we want to emphasize the importance of relating accidents and other features of the working-place environment to the result of the production process. While in no way denying the possibility of technological progress worsening working-place conditions, we must conclude that our results do not lend support to that hypothesis.<p />",
language="",
issn="0376-6349",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}