In the absence of global occupational health statistics, U.S.-based statistics can be applied.
In fact, under the current salary structure, the governor's pay is just a little more than the average salary for a construction manager or a veterinarian, according to 2000 occupational wage statistics from the state Department of Labor.
According to the latest occupational employment statistics, the median annual salary for US child care workers is only $20,320 or $9.77 per hour (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2015).
Comparison of Danish and Swedish national occupational injury statistics shows that the reported LTI-rate, or number of reported lost-time injuries per million working hours, for Danish construction workers is significantly higher than the reported LTI-rate for Swedish construction workers.
Although occupational therapy statistics are not represented in this study, it would be beneficial for future studies to examine the impact of occupational therapy on the ECMO population.
Methodological limitations highlighted by the authors included the lack of complete, reliable, and consistent occupational health statistics to inform their models.
However, U.S. occupational health statistics will reflect the U.S. economy and the prevalence of U.S. health and safety standards and best practices and, therefore, may not accurately represent the workers in the global chain for that product system.
Ideally, the occupational health statistics used in the WE-DALY would reflect the product's life cycle stages, to include a global chain of resource extraction, manufacturers, transporters, users, and recycling and disposal locations.
Its occupational structure is also narrow.
While no agency keeps comprehensive statistics, occupational health specialists say they hear frequent complaints, especially from poultry workers, who cannot step away from fast-moving assembly lines without causing pileups of dead chickens.
