| Description |
1 online resource (294 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Forward Page -- Preface -- Contributors -- The data speak but what do they tell us? -- National occupational injury statistics: what can the data tell us? -- Analysis of narrative text fields in occupational injury data -- Using injury data to identify industry research priorities -- Errors, mistakes and behaviour -- The role of accident experiences on subsequent accident events -- Time-to-contact -- The use of human error data as indicators of changes in work performance -- The role of risk in safety -- Is risk perception one of the dimensions of safety climate? -- The concept of target risk and its implications for accident prevention strategies -- Minimizing the risk of occupationally acquired HIV/AIDS: universal precautions and health-care workers -- Organizations, management, culture and safety -- People make accidents but organizations cause them -- Management and culture: the third age of safety. A review of approaches to organizational aspects of safety, health and environment -- Safety interventions -- Workplace organizational factors and occupational accidents -- Safety interventions: international perspectives -- Before it is too late: evaluating the effectiveness of interventions -- A three-dimensional model relating intervention and cooperation to injury prevention: background, description and application -- Rules or trust: ensuring compliance -- Prevention of chemical injury: an unconventional view -- The case for regulating compliance: a unionist's view -- The case for industry self-regulation: introducing an alternative compliance system in the long distance road transport industry -- Road-transportation: industry perspective -- Driving hours regulations: a transport operator's perspective -- The compensation system in Australia: help or hindrance? |
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Workers' compensation and common law: how the civil legal system discourages occupational injury prevention -- Does compensation have a role in injury prevention? -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Industrial accidents.
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Industrial accidents
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williamson, A
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| ISBN |
9780203212493 |
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0203212495 |
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9781135739157 |
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1135739153 |
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