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Improving occupational health and safety information to immigrant workers in NSW
Alcorso, Caroline (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Why do unionized workers have more nonfatal occupational injuries?
Donado Gomez, Alejandro - 2013
Most empirical studies have estimated a positive union-nonunion "injury gap," suggesting that unionized workers are more likely to have a nonfatal occupational injury than their nonunion counterparts. Using individual-level panel data for the first time, I study several explanations for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234213
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Design of an indicator for health and safety governance
Minguillón, Roberto F.; Yacuzzi, Enrique - 2009
Occupational Health and Safety Governance (OHSG) is a branch of Corporate Governance by which the board directs and controls labor risks created by their own enterprise. The OHSG concept is relatively new; unlike Occupational Health and Safety Management, which is mostly related to the work of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003875195
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Occupational health and safety in the Federal Republic of Germany - a case study on co-determination and health politics
Hauss, Friedrich; Rosenbrock, Rolf - 1982
nicht der vielfach geäußerten Einschatzung entspricht. Vielmehr besteht im Arbeitsschutz-Systern eher weniger Mitbestimmung … betrieblichen Arbeitsschutz-Systern werden, da sie von diesem gar nicht erfaßt werden können. Die einzig sinnvolle Möglichkeit zur … bei der Bewältigung von Arbeitsbelastungen zum integralen Bestandteil des professionellen Arbeitsschutz- Systems zu machen …
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Estimating the relationship between resource intensity and occupational health and safety in Kazakhstan
Li, Natalia - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact of resource intensity on occupational health in Kazakhstan, exploiting official statistical data on injury rates, mining production and employment, income and inequality measurements across 16 regions for period from 2001 to 2014. The injury and the fatality rates...
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OSH and the COVID-19 pandemic : a legal analysis
Cooney, Sean; De Quintana Figueiredo Pasqualeto, Olivia; … - 2023
This study provides an analysis of how occupational safety and health (OSH) regulation responded to the circumstances of key workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explains the objectives of OSH regulation, including its main elements and how it has evolved over time. It draws from national...
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Occupational safety and health, frontline workers, and the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.
Spieler, Emily A. - 2023
This Report on the U.S. occupational safety and health response to the pandemic was prepared as part of the ILO World Economic and Social Outlook (WESO) project that included a review of the protections provided to critical workers on the frontline of the pandemic in multiple countries. The...
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Climate change and occupational health : are there limits to our ability to adapt?
Dillender, Marcus - 2019
This study considers the relationship between temperature and occupational health. The results indicate that both high and low temperatures increase injury rates and that high temperatures have more severe adverse effects in warmer climates, which suggests that avoiding the adverse effects of...
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A (time) series of unfortunate events : structural change, globalization, and the rise of occupational injuries
Chari, Amalavoyal - 2023
There is a dearth of evidence on the evolution of occupational health in the developing world and on the extent to which it has been influenced by (1) the pattern of structural transformation in these economies and (2) integration with global markets. In this study, I compile a rich database on...
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