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. 2022 Dec 5;2022(4):58.
doi: 10.5339/qmj.2022.58. eCollection 2022.

Work-related injuries in Qatar for 1 year: an initial report from the work-related injury unified registry for Qatar

Rafael Consunji, Ayman El-Menyar, Nazia Hirani  1 , Aisha Abeid, Hassan Al-Thani, Muhammad S Hardan  2 , Sailesh Chauhan  2 , Hasan Kasem  3 , Ruben Peralta
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Work-related injuries in Qatar for 1 year: an initial report from the work-related injury unified registry for Qatar

Rafael Consunji et al. Qatar Med J. .

Abstract

Background: The Ministry of Public Health National Health Strategy 2018-2022 has recognized the need for accurate, updated, and representative data that truly reflects the occupational health and safety status in Qatar. In 2015, the Hamad Trauma Center received a research grant to create a unified registry for work-related injuries in Qatar [WURQ], whose processes and research findings have been reported earlier. This paper shall describe the findings from the initial 1-year collection of data on work-related injuries [WRIs] and deaths in Qatar for the year 2020 through the WURQ database.

Methods: The WURQ database was queried for all WRIs from January 1 to December 31, 2020. These data were classified by date of injury, age, sex, nationality, mechanism of injury, severity of injury, location of medical consultation, and clinical outcome.

Results: Out of a total worker population of 2,174,828 [2.29 occupational fatalities per 100,000 workers, there were 50 deaths caused by WRIs]. The majority of WRI deaths were in the prehospital setting [60%] with the majority of fatal injuries occurring at the worksite [64%] and 22% due to falls. Five hundred six workers sustained severe WRIs [23.26 severe occupational injuries per 100,000 workers], and 37,601 workers sustained mild to moderate WRIs [1,728.91 mild to moderate occupational injuries per 100,000 workers]. The severe WRIs were most commonly due to falls [226 out of 506] from height [45%] and falling heavy objects [80 out of 506] [16%]. Road traffic injuries [RTI] make up one-fourth [133 out of 506] of all severe WRIs.

Conclusion: WURQ has described WRIs in Qatar using a purpose-built and nationally linked occupational injury registry. Occupational injury and injury fatality statistics, for Qatar in 2020, are lower than or comparable with those from other high-income countries. This data can be used to inform worksite inspections, investigations, worker safety education, environmental improvements, and injury prevention programs to make Qatar safer for all its workers.

Keywords: registry; work-related injuries; worker safety.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors of this study do not have any competing interests

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Figure 1.
Work-Related Injuries and Medical Records, WURQ, January - December 2020.
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Figure 2.
Key Characteristics of WRI Deaths, WURQ, January - December 2020UNK, unknown cause; MVC, motor vehicle crash; FALL, fall from height; BURN, thermal or chemical burns; MOI, mechanism of injury; WRI, work-related injury.
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Figure 3.
Mild and Severe WRIs by Nationality, WURQ, January - December 2020.
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Figure 4.
Mild and Severe WRIs by Mechanism of Injury, WURQ, January - December 2020OBJ, contact with an inanimate object; FALL, fall from height; MACH, machinery-related injury; FOHO, falling heavy object; RTI, road traffic-related injury.
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Figure 5.
Data collection pathway for WURQ2 and WURQ3.
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