External Risk Factors for Women at Work

By: Cal-OSHA

SAN DIEGO - The presence of young children at home, not the age of the woman worker, is one of three factors that have an adverse impact on her safety on the job, Amy Rock Wohl has found. In research for her PhD thesis at UCLA's School of Public Health, Wohl found that the other two risk factors were a history of a previous injury and a higher body mass index.She found that there were no effects for age, years of work experience, total number of children at home, ethnicity, marital status and the s

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