Researcher: Danièle Champoux

The Association paritaire pour la santé et la sécurité du travail du secteur de la fabrication de produits en métal et de produits électriques (joint occupational health and safety association, metal products and electrical products manufacturing sector) has decided to target its interventions at companies with the highest accident rates. To help it accomplish this, the IRSST summarizes incidence and severity indicators as well as occupational injury descriptors for each of the nine sub-sectors for the 1991-1993 period. The results of this statistical review provide the Association with complete and up-to-date information, allow it to monitor the evolution of occupational accidents and identify intervention needs in this industrial sector.