occupational health and safety Articles
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Translating ideologically based concerns: how civil society organisations use the financial market to protect human rights
Civil society organisations are increasingly using the financial market to put pressure on corporations regarding issues such as environmental protection, occupational health and safety and respect for human rights. The purpose of this paper is to explore and explain how this is done and how agreement can be reached despite the often-times differing world-views, ideologies and agendas between ...
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Is job insecurity a risk factor in occupational health and safety?
The main aim of the present study was to examine how job insecurity influences job satisfaction as well as on-the-job risk behaviour. An additional aim was to analyse how risk perception affects the associations between job insecurity, job dissatisfaction and behaviour. The results of the study are based on a self-completion questionnaire survey carried out among employees experiencing ...
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Which risk approach to protect occupational health and safety? Evidence from Italian regulations
Occupational accidents are one of the greatest causes of death and injury. Each year, more than 2.3 million people die from accidents at work and approximately 317 million people are victims of non–fatal occupational diseases. The magnitude of the problem has inspired the introduction, at both international and national level, of legal rules to protect health and safety at work. This paper ...
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A public arena for sustainable health and safety innovation: guidelines for research and practice
Evaluations of science parks show limited results, despite huge investments in staff and technology, i.e. a low level of sustainability. We present an innovation service and arena with a significant higher outcome of innovations. The arena is based on experiences mainly from three serially related action–studies on innovation in health and safety, and the assumption that all ideas in innovation ...
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Work and eco-efficiency: opportunities and limitations
In industrial ecology, the interaction of industrial and ecological systems has been approached mainly with concepts of metabolism, material flows and ecological metaphors. Less attention has been paid to the concept of work. In this article I study the contribution of eco-efficiency to social and ecological sustainability from the perspective of human work, work performed by technology and work ...
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Rapid assessment of occupational health and safety measures for personnel handling healthcare waste in the Gaza Strip, Palestine
Proper healthcare waste (HCW) management practices and precautions are crucial to avoid occupational and environmental health problems amongst healthcare workers. This study aims to assess the occupational health and safety of healthcare workers involved in medical waste handling in two hospitals in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. This study was cross–sectional in design, and a simple random sampling ...
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Intelex Blog: The Best of Intelex Friday Safety Facts
Many of the statistics on safety are staggering, but valuable lessons can be learned from every single one of them. In this compilation of Intelex's popular "Friday Safety Facts," we cover a wide variety of topics: from hazards and risk to OSHA and regulations, use these clever visual aids as reminders to stay safe in the workplace. The safety facts depicted in these mini infographics come from ...
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Protecting the environment with help from CCOHS
Winnipeg, MB.: Environment Canada’s mandate is to preserve and enhance the quality of the natural environment, including water, air and soil quality. Its vision is to see a Canada where responsible decisions about the environment are made for the benefit of present and future generations. Harvey Pukin is Technical Advisor for Health and Safety for the Meteorological Service of Canada, ...
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5 of the most inspiring people in occupational health and safety
Thoughts, theories and practices: personal role models At Quentic, we recently published our Safety Management Trend Report for 2020. In the last chapter, our experts shared the innovators and trailblazers of the occupational health and safety field. Whether you are a safety specialist, student, manager or CEO with an awareness of health & safety – anyone can benefit from browsing ...
By Quentic GmbH
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To influence corporate OH&S performance through the financial market
The systematic management of work environment and occupational risks was investigated with the help of a desktop audit to the 150 largest companies on the Australian stock market. The aim of this was to rate companies on their safety management system and to choose those best-of-sector to be included in a OH&S-screened share investment portfolio. The results of the screening, and the indicated ...
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Worker fall from mobile scaffold
In this study, the head injury of a worker, who had fallen from a mobile scaffold, where the employers alleged that the fall was entirely due to the unsafe actions of the victim and his co–workers, was investigated. Although the case involved a number of unsafe work conditions presented by the employers, defence attorneys wanted scientific validation of the author's contention that the fall ...
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The Detection of Nonconformances in Real Time
Introduction Many businesses now use systems that work in real time for acquiring, storing, analyzing and issuing data in all their plants in an efficient manner. These real time archiving systems enable you to obtain data with the aid of sensors and electronic control panels directly and quickly. These real-time acquisition systems store crucial data on operations carried out within the company ...
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Online tool highlights the scale of work-related accidents in Brazil
In Brazil, an occupational health & safety accident happens every 47 seconds. 3.3 million notifications of work-related accidents were registered with the authorities in the period between 2012 and 2016. 12,423 deaths due to work-related accidents were reported in the country in that same period of time. This data is based on the analysis produced by the Digital Observatory of Health and ...
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Safety Revolution: How I2P2 Will Reshape Your Business
There’s a big change on the horizon in American workplace health and safety and it will affect every business across the U.S. in every sector. It’s called I2P2 , the Injury and Illness Protection Program, and it’s in everyone’s interest to get to know it better, because it’s going to reshape the occupational health and safety landscape – permanently. If you ...
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How the Inertial Labs Kernel Tilt Sensors are Shaping Construction Safety
The Price of Safety As of today, the leading cause of fatalities and injury in the construction industry is due to a falling related incident. Data that was gathered by the United States Department of Labor and published by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) found that in 2017, falling incidents alone contributed to 39.2% of the total construction tragedies. But how do ...
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Plug Sliding Issue Solved by PlugCo
Smart Plug by PlugCo Is Solving Plug Sliding Problem In The Pipeline Industry. An Innovative Product Is On The Way To Change Testing! For the pipe plug industry, it has always been problematic to calculate the real back pressure during a project implementation. This has led to many problems for the end-users in terms of occupational health and safety. PlugCo supplied equipment for an ...
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NOSHCON is proud to have Mr Jim Harris as Environmental Speaker
NOSHCON, Nosa"s annual international Conference on Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Management welcomes Jim Harris, environmental guru and Number 1 best seller at their event. For more information, contact the NOSHCON office: noshcon@nosa.co.za ...
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Global Database on Occupational Safety and Health Legislation
The ILO Global Database on Occupational Safety and Health Legislation (LEGOSH) provides a picture of the regulatory framework of the main elements of OSH legislation, including OSH management and administration, employers’ duties and obligations, workers’ rights and duties, OSH inspection and enforcement, among others. LEGOSH classification structure is based on a comprehensive set of ...
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Recent federal developments in chemical regulation, pesticides, occupational health and safety and related areas
On January 22, 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report adding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) to a list of federal programs, policies, and operations that are at a “high risk” for waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. The report claims that the EPA program was added to the list because IRIS is at risk of ...
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What is a Thermal Robot Protection Cover?
Automation has been a key performance driver in virtually all industries. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the construction line where complex yet repetitive assembly tasks have been delegated to robotic systems. You can largely trace the genesis of industrial robots to the 1960s and the early days of Silicon Valley; when high-performance semiconductors and the birth of the integrated ...
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