Association Between Presenteeism and Work-Related Falls Among Older Workers in the Retail Sector

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OBJECTIVE: Work-related falls have been recognized as a serious problem in occupational health in recent years. We investigated the effect of presenteeism on work-related falls. METHODS: This study was a prospective cohort study and included older workers in a single retail company. We used the degree of presenteeism (assessed using the Work Functioning Impairment Scale) as the independent variable and the number of work-related falls as the dependent variable. We estimated incidence rate ratios by multilevel Poisson regression analysis. RESULTS: Increasing Work Functioning Impairment Scale score was associated with increasing incidence rate ratio for the number of work-related falls ( P for trend = 0.005). CONCLUSIONS: We found that presenteeism was associated with work-related falls among older workers in the retail sector. This study suggests that the measurement of presenteeism may also represent a proxy measurement of the risk of work-related falls.