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Trends in gender differences in accidents mortality [PDF]

open access: yes
This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident-related behavior, using data for the US, UK, France, Italy, and Japan, 1950-98.
Ingrid Waldron   +2 more
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The Prevalence of Occupational Accidents and the Associated Factors Among Janitorial Staff at a University Teaching Hospital in South Ethiopia

open access: yes, 2023
Abel Afework,1 Aiggan Tamene,2 Abera Tafa,1 Amanuel Tesfaye,1 Sisay Gemede1 1Infection Prevention and Control Department, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia; 2Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Wachemo University, Wachemo, EthiopiaCorrespondence:
Tafa A   +4 more
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Small Polity, Hybrid Administration, International Research: Public Administration in Switzerland

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Switzerland presents a most peculiar political system whose institutional idiosyncrasies shape not only the practice of public administration but also the scientific study thereof. This country study presents the development and state of both public administration as practice and Public Administration as a scholarly discipline.
Fritz Sager   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Rule Violating Corporations Specialist or Generalist Perpetrators? A Quantitative Exploration Based on Regulatory Inspection Data

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study examines diversity in corporate offending. Corporations can be diverse or rather specialized in their pattern of rule violating behavior. Offending diversity (or crime mix) constitutes an important dimension of the criminal career and different theories of offending lead to different predictions with regard to the extent of ...
Marieke H. A. Kluin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Costs and Benefits of Preventing Workplace Accidents: The Case of Participatory Ergonomics [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper provides a cost-benefit analysis of a participatory ergonomics program conducted at the beginning of the 1990s to reduce back-related disorders among packers at a warehouse of the Société des Alcools du Québec in Quebec City.
Paul Lanoie, Sophie Tavenas
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New Labor Governance? The German Supply Chain Act and National Governance Mechanisms in Brazil

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Due diligence laws respond to labor governance challenges and to a lack of public governance addressing human rights violations in Global Value Chains. Despite ongoing contestation, the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act seeks to hold German‐based firms accountable for human rights risks in their supply chains.
Helena Gräf
wiley   +1 more source

Costs and Benefits of Preventing Workplace Accidents : Going from a Mechanical to a Manual Handling System [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper provides a cost-benefit analysis of the passage from a mechanical to a manual handling system that took place at the beginning of the 1990s at a warehouse of the Société des Alcools du Québec in Montreal.
Louis Trottier, Paul Lanoie
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Cerebral and peripheral haemodynamics at rest and in response to orthostasis during 3 days of simulated heatwave

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Acute heat stress reduces cerebral haemodynamics and orthostatic tolerance. However, the haemodynamic response to orthostasis during prolonged heat stress typical of heatwaves is unknown. We hypothesised that thermoregulatory‐induced elevations in peripheral haemodynamics during 3 days of simulated heatwave would exacerbate orthostatic‐induced
Alexander T. Friend   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cancer in Ireland 1994-2015 with estimates for 2015-2017: Annual Report of the National Cancer Registry

open access: yes, 2017
This is the 22nd annual statistical report of the National Cancer Registry. This report summarises cancer incidence, mortality and survival in Ireland for the period 1994-2015, and provides projected estimates for incidence for the most recent three-year
National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI)
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Rethinking Mistrust: Elements Toward a Situated Theory on Immigrant Workers

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores mistrust as a socially situated phenomenon by using the care trajectories of injured immigrant workers in Québec as a conceptual entry point. Rather than focusing on the individual characteristics of trusters, it examines how mistrust emerges from a subjective evaluation of environments perceived as threatening.
Maude Arsenault, Daniel Côté
wiley   +1 more source

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