Why Construction Workers Don't Report Injuries

This is an excerpt from an ISHN article.

More than 25% of construction workers responding to a recent survey by the Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) said that they had suffered a work-related injury at some point in their career that they did not report.

Multiple reasons

• Workers accept that injury is part of the job

• They wanted to remain eligible for safety incentive prizes

• They did not wish employers or coworkers to see them as complainers or as weak

• They feared they would not be hired again by their employer if they reported an injury; and

• They found the paperwork and process for filing a claim daunting

“Pain is a natural part of my job”

The focus group participants identified multiple reasons why workers failed to report workplace injuries:

Workers who explained their failure to report a work-related injury were most likely to say that “my injury was small” and “pain is a natural part of my job,” according to the CPWR.

The full article is available at ishn.com.