Introduction
The occupational groups in the building and construction industry retain top positions in national work injury statistics, mainly through traumatic and musculo-skeletal injury and disease.
The latest report on occupational risks in Sweden (AFA 2006) show that building and construction workers run risks of sustaing severe and permanently disabling work-related injuries several times higher than the labourmarket average (Table 1). They also run higher than average risks of sustaining occupational injuries resulting in permanent medical impairment (Table 2)
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