
Title:
Occupational injury : risk, prevention, and intervention
Author:
Feyer, Anne-Marie.
ISBN:
9780203212493
9781135739102
9781135739140
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages)
Contents:
chapter PART ONE The data speak but what do they tell us? -- chapter 1 National occupational injury statistics: what can the data tell us? / chapter 2 Analysis of narrative text fields in occupational injury data / chapter 3 Using injury data to identify industry research priorities / chapter PART TWO Errors, mistakes and behaviour -- chapter 4 The role of accident experiences on subsequent accident events / chapter 5 Time-to-contact / chapter 6 The use of human error data as indicators of changes in work performance / chapter PART THREE The role of risk in safety -- chapter 7 Is risk perception one of the dimensions of safety climate? / chapter 8 The concept of target risk and its implications for accident prevention strategies / chapter 9 Minimizing the risk of occupationally acquired HIV/AIDS: universal precautions and health-care workers / chapter PART FOUR Organizations, management, culture and safety -- chapter 10 People make accidents but organizations cause them / chapter 11 Management and culture: the third age of safety. A review of approaches to organizational aspects of safety, health and environment / chapter PART FIVE Safety interventions -- chapter 12 Workplace organizational factors and occupational accidents / chapter 13 Safety interventions: international perspectives / chapter 14 Before it is too late: evaluating the effectiveness of interventions / chapter 15 A three-dimensional model relating intervention and cooperation to injury prevention: background, description and application / chapter PART SIX Rules or trust: ensuring compliance -- chapter 16 Prevention of chemical injury: an unconventional view / chapter 17 The case for regulating compliance: a unionist's view / chapter 18 The case for industry self-regulation: introducing an alternative compliance system in the long distance road transport industry -- chapter The compensation system in Australia: help or hindrance? -- chapter 19 Workers compensation and common law: how the civil legal system discourages occupational injury prevention / chapter 20 Does compensation have a role in injury prevention?
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