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Worldwide, 270 million occupational accidents occur, and 160 million occupational diseases are reported, each year. Moreover, hundreds of millions of work days are lost every year as a result of poor working conditions in the European Union alone. One of the most advocated accidents preventive measures is the education and training of workers. This work proposes to make a systematic literature review, whereby the Authors aim to answer the research question: “Is there evidence within the scientific literature of the relationship between education/training and accident occurrence?”. In a brief analysis of the results, it is observed that extending the keywords Education AND occupational AND accidents to the Topic field, a higher number of results were shown, whereby the majority of the documents were articles, and records stemmed from early 1990s, in a variable behaviour. The Portuguese language is second to the English-written documents. These results will yield important information to determine future approaches in the prevention of occupational accidents occurrence.
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The authors would like to express their thanks to FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, for all the support provided in the scope of the projects COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043, UID/CEC/00319-2019.
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Leão, C.P., Costa, S. (2020). Safety Training and Occupational Accidents – Is There a Link?. In: Goossens, R., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Social and Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 970. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20145-6_53
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