Occupational Injury: Risk, Prevention And Intervention

✍ Scribed by Anne Marie Feyer, A Williamson

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Forward Page......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Contributors......Page 14
The data speak but what do they tell us?......Page 18
National occupational injury statistics: what can the data tell us?......Page 22
Analysis of narrative text fields in occupational injury data......Page 32
Using injury data to identify industry research priorities......Page 38
Errors, mistakes and behaviour......Page 46
The role of accident experiences on subsequent accident events......Page 50
Time-to-contact......Page 61
The use of human error data as indicators of changes in work performance......Page 76
The role of risk in safety......Page 86
Is risk perception one of the dimensions of safety climate?......Page 90
The concept of target risk and its implications for accident prevention strategies......Page 99
Minimizing the risk of occupationally acquired HIV/AIDS: universal precautions and health-care workers......Page 123
Organizations, management, culture and safety......Page 134
People make accidents but organizations cause them......Page 138
Management and culture: the third age of safety. A review of approaches to organizational aspects of safety, health and environment......Page 146
Safety interventions......Page 184
Workplace organizational factors and occupational accidents......Page 188
Safety interventions: international perspectives......Page 196
Before it is too late: evaluating the effectiveness of interventions......Page 212
A three-dimensional model relating intervention and cooperation to injury prevention: background, description and application......Page 221
Rules or trust: ensuring compliance......Page 232
Prevention of chemical injury: an unconventional view......Page 236
The case for regulating compliance: a unionist's view......Page 247
The case for industry self-regulation: introducing an alternative compliance system in the long distance road transport industry......Page 251
Road-transportation: industry perspective......Page 260
Driving hours regulations: a transport operator's perspective......Page 262
The compensation system in Australia: help or hindrance?......Page 266
Workers' compensation and common law: how the civil legal system discourages occupational injury prevention......Page 270
Does compensation have a role in injury prevention?......Page 280
Index......Page 288