摘要： The change of injury pattern in Taiwan’s manufacturing between 1996 and 2012. [Display omitted] •This study explored the long-term changes of occupational injury patterns.•CA revealed three phases for severity and two for accident type and injury source.•Business cycles and industry structure contribute to the change of injury patterns.•Safety measures should consider contextual factors such as economic fluctuations. The purpose of this study is to explore the long-term changes of occupational injury patterns from macro-perspective. Correspondence analysis was applied to chart longitudinal changes in occupational injury patterns (including severity, accident type, and source of injury) based on 92,577 cases reported by manufacturing firms in Taiwan between 1996 and 2012. Cluster analysis revealed three phases for injury severity and two for accident type and source of injury. The Kruskal–Wallis test revealed whether and which injury severity, accident type and source of injury had significant difference among different phases. Factors such as business cycles and industrial structure that contribute to the change of occupational injury patterns were elucidated. The results showed that, even within an industry, the injury pattern and epidemiology vary according to contextual factors such as longitudinal business cycle and cross-sectional industrial structure. Safety policy or injury prevention evaluation must be implemented in response to the influence of contextual factors, industrial characteristics and the main industries. 出版者： Kidlington: Elsevier India Pvt Ltd 出版日期： 2014-10-01 出處： Safety science, 2014-10, Vol.68, p.231-242 版權： 2014 Elsevier Ltd 版權： 2015 INIST-CNRS 識別號： ISSN: 0925-7535 識別號： EISSN: 1879-1042 識別號： DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2014.04.005
