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Abstract：
Sickness absence among employees is reported to reduce organization profits and performance and thus threaten the organization\'s existence in the market. The monitoring and reporting of data on sickness absence is considered a crucial element of reactive health and safety control systems in organizations. It is one of the major indicators of organizational continuous commitment to improving the quality of working conditions. However, sickness absence in Police in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is less investigated. The Occupational Health and Safety Survey developed for this study was distributed to 1317 employees of the Capital Police Directorate of Abu Dhabi Police. The survey was answered by 760 employees (58 %). While 230 (17 %) refused to participate, 259 (20 %) did not return the surveys, and 68 (5 %) were not surveyed as they were on authorized long-term leave for various reasons (and did not receive the survey). This study analyzes if the psychosocial work factors, physical work exposure factors, and employee\'s perception of the health and safety management system predict sickness absence in the Abu Dhabi Police after taking into account the other covariates. This study found no association between job control and the risk of sickness absence, in contrast to findings from other studies. There was also no association between psychological job demand and the perception of health and safety management with the risk of sickness absence in this study. Officers who fit the \'job strain\' category did not have a significant increase in the risk of sickness absence in this study. However, high levels of combined physical exposures reported a significant relation with sickness absence. In conclusion, this, being one of the first studies in the region, provides insights on work factors and perception of HSE on sickness absence and provides recommendations within the context of the region for future studies and address sickness absence among police in the UAE.
摘要：
据报道，员工中的病假会降低组织的利润和绩效，从而威胁到组织在市场中的存在。监测和报告疾病缺席数据被认为是组织中反应性健康和安全控制系统的关键要素。它是组织持续致力于改善工作条件质量的主要指标之一。然而,阿拉伯联合酋长国（UAE）的警察缺勤调查较少。为这项研究开发的职业健康与安全调查已分发给阿布扎比警察局首都警察局的1317名员工。调查得到了760名员工（58%）的回答。230人（17%）拒绝参加，259(20%)没有返回调查，68人（5％）因各种原因而被授权长期休假（并且没有接受调查）。这项研究分析了心理社会工作因素，体力劳动暴露因素，员工对健康和安全管理系统的看法在考虑其他协变量后预测阿布扎比警方的疾病缺勤。这项研究发现，工作控制与疾病缺勤风险之间没有关联，与其他研究的结果相反。在这项研究中，心理工作需求与健康和安全管理的感知与疾病缺勤的风险之间也没有关联。在这项研究中，符合“工作压力”类别的官员没有显着增加疾病缺勤的风险。然而,高水平的综合身体暴露报告与疾病缺席有显著关系。总之,这个,是该地区最早的研究之一，提供有关工作因素和HSE对疾病缺勤的看法的见解，并在该地区的背景下为未来的研究提供建议，并解决阿联酋警察的疾病缺勤问题。
