Correlational Analysis Between Work Absenteeism and Aspects of Human Behavior

Abstract

This research aims to determine the relationship between medical absenteeism, sociodemographic characteristics and human behavior of the workers of a Colombian mining company. A quantitative study with correlational scope was developed, composed of 832 absenteeism records from 2020. To associate the study variables, bivariate tables are considered, using statistics according to parametric behavior. It was evidenced that injuries and poisonings correspond to more than 51% of the total causes of absences, within a predominantly male population (90%) aged between 40 and 50 years with a low educational level, a population that has developed a large part of their working life in activities related to mining. On the other hand, it is considered that absenteeism is significantly related to lifestyle, such as smoking, alcohol consumption, excess body mass index, low physical activity and unhealthy eating habits, aspects that explain a substantial proportion of the absence from work of the personnel working in this company, and also obey to adaptive and self-organized human behaviors, which were learned from generation to generation, as well as the learned processes to the development of the technical skills of the mining labor.