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Injury prevention: blurring the distinctions between home and work

Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts

Correspondence to:
Dr Gordon Smith, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, 71 Frankland Road, Hopkinton, Massachusetts 01748, USA;
Gordon.Smith@LibertyMutual.com

Keywords: occupational injury

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This issue of Injury Prevention contains three articles about work related injury, the most for any regular issue of the journal. Their inclusion is part of the increasing recognition of occupational injury prevention as part of the mainstream injury prevention movement. It also puts the journal in the forefront as the leading multidisciplinary journal in the field of injury prevention, a direct result of the decision several years ago to expand its focus to cover all injuries, not just those to children and adolescents. Since then, in addition to the occupational injury supplement to the September 2001 issue,¹ there have been seven other work related articles covering the spectrum from hand injury prevention among sugar cutters in India to fatal electrocutions in the US.

Injuries off the job are also receiving increasing attention by industry because of their impact on the workplace, both in terms of cost . . . [Full text of this article]

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				G S Smith, G S Sorock, H M Wellman, T K Courtney, and G S Pransky Blurring the distinctions between on and off the job injuries: similarities and differences in circumstances. Inj. Prev., August 1, 2006; 12(4): 236 - 241. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

				G. S. Smith, H. M. Wellman, G. S. Sorock, M. Warner, T. K. Courtney, G. S. Pransky, and L. A. Fingerhut Injuries at Work in the US Adult Population: Contributions to the Total Injury Burden Am J Public Health, July 1, 2005; 95(7): 1213 - 1219. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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