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Shifting the focus of strategic occupational injury prevention: Mining free-text, workers compensation claims data
Citation
Brooks, BP, Shifting the focus of strategic occupational injury prevention: Mining free-text, workers compensation claims data, Safety Science, 46, (1) pp. 1-21. ISSN 0925-7535 (2006) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2006.09.006
Abstract
The current analysis applies the software SASŪ Text Miner to the mining of the free-text component of workers compensation claims data. It describes these methods with reference to claims within the state of Victoria, Australia from 1992 to 2002 for two groups called 'Car and Delivery Drivers' and 'Wood Industry Workers'. It suggests that text mining can be used as a stand-alone tool for the analysis of free-text descriptions of occupational injury or combined with coded data to investigate sub-categories of injury. By manipulating the original description of the injury, text-mining can offer more detailed analyses of certain types of claim and shifts the focus of strategic prevention from broad statistics or coded groups of information to the descriptions people use to explain their injuries and accidents.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
| Research Group: | Human resources and industrial relations |
| Research Field: | Occupational and workplace health and safety |
| Objective Division: | Transport |
| Objective Group: | Ground transport |
| Objective Field: | Road freight |
| UTAS Author: | Brooks, BP (Associate Professor Benjamin Brooks) |
| ID Code: | 63548 |
| Year Published: | 2006 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 24 |
| Deposited By: | NC Ports and Shipping |
| Deposited On: | 2010-05-11 |
| Last Modified: | 2010-06-18 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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