ABSTRACT
Acute or chronic health problems that are caused or aggravated by work practices or conditions are referred to as work-related or occupational diseases. Work-related diseases impose significant physical and economic suffering on workers who also encounter frustrating challenges in obtaining fair workers’ compensation benefits. The chapter aims to discover relationships among occupational diseases, severities, and worker and work characteristics in the construction industry through analytics of past workers’ compensation data. Depending on the dataset size and the variable attributes, different techniques were applied to explore the data pertinent to the selected disease groups. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are caused by a combination of genetic and lifestyle risk factors. The genetic risk factors include age, gender, heredity and ethnicity. Among the lifestyle risk factors are: smoking, overweight, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, physical inactivity, excessive stress levels and depression. The construction work is highly demanding, and workers are incessantly exposed to the occupational risk factors of CVD.
