ReviewErgonomics2016
State of science: occupational slips, trips and falls on the same level.
Review in Ergonomics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.
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33 citing papers in PubMed.
- Relationship between age, workplace slips and the effectiveness of slip-resistant footwear among healthcare workers.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2022Trial
- Correlates of Work-Related Disability Among Injured Garment Workers in Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Investigation.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Assessment of Occupational Health and Safety Hazards in Mosquito Control Personnel in North Carolina and Virginia, USA.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Work-Related Accidents and Their Predictors Among Delivery Drivers in Egypt: A Cross-Sectional Study.La Medicina del lavoro · 2026Article
- Piezoelectric-Triboelectric Hybrid Nanogenerator for Energy Harvesting and Self-Powered Sensing Applications.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Review
- Barriers and strategies affecting the use of assistive devices for falls prevention among people with Parkinson's disease: a qualitative pilot study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Slip Risk on Surfaces Made with 3D Printing Technology.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Acquisition of Data on Kinematic Responses to Unpredictable Gait Perturbations: Collection and Quality Assurance of Data for Use in Machine Learning Algorithms for (Near-)Fall Detection.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Influence of Fatigue, Recovery, and Environmental Factors on the Body Stability of Construction Workers.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The need for better metrics for floor-tile topography: Conventional metrics correlate only modestly with shoe-floor friction.Tribology international · 2024Article
- Relationship between anemia and occupational fall injuries in female part-time employees: an observational study of large supermarket stores in Japan.Journal of occupational health · 2024Observational
- Unveiling human biomechanics: insights into lower limb responses to disturbances that can trigger a fall.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2024Article
- Temporal trends in occupational injuries treated in US emergency departments, 2012-2019.Injury epidemiology · 2023Article
- Effects of Load Carriage on Postural Control and Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters during Level and Uphill Walking.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The effects of swing assistance in a microprocessor-controlled transfemoral prosthesis on walking at varying speeds and grades.Wearable technologies · 2023Article
- Provoking Artificial Slips and Trips towards Perturbation-Based Balance Training: A Narrative Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Reducing Slip Risk: A Feasibility Study of Gait Training with Semi-Real-Time Feedback of Foot-Floor Contact Angle.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Head-Mounted and Hand-Held Displays Diminish the Effectiveness of Fall-Resisting Skills.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Effect of foot-floor friction on the external moment about the body center of mass during shuffling gait: a pilot study.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Association between physical capacity and occupational falls among middle-aged and older farmers in Thailand: Using the self-check risk assessment tool in Japan.Journal of occupational health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Occupational slips, trips and falls on the same level (STFL) result in substantial injuries worldwide. This paper summarises the state of science regarding STFL, outlining relevant aspects of epidemiology, biomechanics, psychophysics, tribology, organisational influences and injury prevention. This review reaffirms that STFL remain a major cause of workplace injury and STFL prevention is a complex problem, requiring multi-disciplinary, multi-faceted approaches. Despite progress in recent decades in understanding the mechanisms involved in STFL, especially slipping, research leading to evidence-based prevention practices remains insufficient, given the problem scale. It is concluded that there is a pressing need to develop better fall prevention strategies using systems approaches conceptualising and addressing the factors involved in STFL, with considerations of the full range of factors and their interactions. There is also an urgent need for field trials of various fall prevention strategies to assess the effectiveness of different intervention components and their interactions. Practitioner Summary: Work-related slipping, tripping and falls on the same level are a major source of occupational injury. The causes are broadly understood, although more attention is needed from a systems perspective. Research has shown preventative action to be effective, but further studies are required to understand which aspects are most beneficial.
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