Occupational Injury (eBook, ePUB)

Risk, Prevention And Intervention
Redaktion: Feyer, Anne Marie; Williamson, A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Occupational injury is a major and often preventable health problem in the work environment. Each year throughout the world millions are affected by traumatic occupational injuries and many thousands are actually killed in work-related incidents. This book provides a diverse and multi-faceted look at some of the themes directing late-1990s research and intervention within the area of occupational injury and safety.
The book is divided into seven thematic parts with an introduction provided for each section. The topics include estimating the size of the problem, with discussions of different analytical techniques and their efficacy; the nature of causal agents the relative roles of risk, behaviour and organization processes; and the role played by compensation processes. Together the book brings into focus twenty chapters which address some of the issues of occupational injury and safety.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135739140
• Artikelnr.: 57589795

Autorenporträt

Anne Marie Feyer, A Williamson

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The data speak but what do they tell you? national occupational
injury statistics - what can the data tell us? analysis of narrative text
fields in occupational injury data; using data to identify industry
research priorities. Part 2 Errors, mistakes and behaviour: the role of
accident experiences on subsequent accident events; time-to-contact; the
use of human error data as indicators of changes in work performance. Part
3 The role of risk in safety: is risk perception one of the dimensions of
safety climate? the concept of target risk and its implications for
accident prevention strategies; minimising the risk of
occupational-acquired HIV/AIDS - universal precautions and health care
workers. Part 4 Organizations, management, culture and safety: people make
accidents, but organizations cause them; management and culture - the third
age of safety; a review of approaches to organizational aspects of safety
health and environment. Part 5 Safety interventions:workplace
organizational factors and occupational accidents; safety interventions -
international perspectives; before it is too late - evaluating the
effectiveness of interventions; a three dimensional model relating
intervention and co-operation to injury prevention - background,
description and application. Part 6 Rules or trust - ensuring compliance:
prevention of chemical injury - an unconventional view; the case for
regulating compliance - a unionist's view; the case for industry self-
regulation - introducing an alternative compliance system in the long
distance road transport industry. Part 7 The compensation system in
Australia - help or hindrance: workers' compensation and common law - how
to civil legal system discourages occupational injury prevention; does
compensation have a role in injury prevention?