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Occupational safety

Nursing Management, 2005
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health runs several training programmes, but its Healthcare: risk and safety management programme is tailored specifically to the needs of healthcare professionals.
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Occupational Safety and Health

NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 2003
The 2002 elections put worker health and safety in a deep hole. The administration's core strategy on safety and health wraps vague, moderate rhetoric around hard-right policies which cater to the most anti-worker factions of the business community.
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Occupational Safety and Health

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1979
Work accidents became a matter of societal concern in the Progressive era of Woodrow Wilson. When other contingencies of modern life were brought under social security in the New Deal reforms of the 1930s, work accident legislation remained separate. One possible reason was that work accidents can be controlled within industrial and chance limits.
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Occupational Safety

2012
AbstractSafety is a growing area of study for organizational scholars and is increasingly becoming more paramount for organizations. In this chapter we present a broad review of occupational safety with particular attention paid to identifying characteristics of individual employees and contextual features that predict safety. This review culminates by
J. Craig Wallace, Jeffrey B. Paul, Ronald S. Landis, Stephen J. Vodanovich   +3 more
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Occupational Safety and Health Standards

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1989
If we are to approach developing a safe and healthful workplace in a more timely fashion, a more generic approach must be considered and applied instead of developing recommendations and standards simply on a substance-by-substance basis, an approach that has been the most prominent.
R A, Lemen, L F, Mazzuckelli, R W, Niemeier, H W, Ahlers   +3 more
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Human strengths and occupational safety

Clinical Biomechanics, 1987
This paper presents a review of relatively recent North American literature concerning human strengths. It briefly covers basic strength definitions, measurement and prediction of strengths, and the role of strengths in employee screening and job matching procedures.
A, Mital, B, Das
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Occupational safety in the construction industry

Work, 2019
BACKGROUND: The paper is a research review focusing on occupational safety in the construction industry. OBJECTIVE: The purpose is to present research that highlights the areas of occupational safety and risks and to identify areas where research is lacking.
Jan, Johansson, Leif, Berglund, Maria, Johansson, Magnus, Nygren, Kjell, Rask, Björn, Samuelson, Magnus, Stenberg   +6 more
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Occupational Safety and Health: An overview

2016 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI), 2016
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) is a multidisciplinary field that comprises the recognition, prevention and control of hazards in the workplace in order to promote worker's health which is one of the millennium development goals. History, importance, challenges, opportunities and research topics are described and analyzed for offering a broad ...
Lourdes Ruiz Salvador, Duong Van Thinh
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Occupational safety

2010
Abstract Any approach to occupational health must acknowledge that accidents in the workplace result in many injuries. Construction, agriculture, and primary extraction are the main causes of fatalities and serious injuries, but many more minor injuries result from all types of work.
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