Occupational Injury Risk, Prevention And Intervention

Book : Occupational Injury Risk, Prevention And Intervention

Author : * Anne-Marie Feyer * Ann Williamson

Language : English

Library : Health-Safety-Environment

Publish Place : London

ISBN : 0-7484-0647-6

Publish Date : January 1998

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Book Type : Book

Book Number : 856

INDEX

Contents

Forward Pag
Preface
Contributors
PART ONE The data speak but what do they tell us? Introduction
1 National occupational injury statistics: what can the data tell us?
Petra Macaskill and Tim R. Driscoll
2 Analysis of narrative text fields in occupational injury data
Nancy Stout
3 Using injury data to identify industry research priorities
Laurie Stiller, John Sargaison and Thomas Mitchell
PART TWO Errors, mistakes and behaviour Introduction
4 The role of accident experiences on subsequent accident events
Kenneth R. Laughery and Kent P. Vaubel
5 Time-to-contact
Peter A. Hancock and Michael P. Manser
6 The use of human error data as indicators of changes in work performance
Claire M. PollockPART THREE The role of risk in safety Introduction
7 Is risk perception one of the dimensions of safety climate?
Nicole Dedobbeleer and Francois Beland
8 The concept of target risk and its implications for accident prevention strategies
Gerald J.S. Wilde
9 Minimizing the risk of occupationally acquired HlV/AlDS: universal precautions and health-care workers
David M. DeJoy, Robyn R.M. Gershon and Laurence R. Murphy
PART FOUR Organizations, management, culture and safety Introduction
10 People make accidents but organizations cause them
Willem A. Wagenaar
11 Management and culture: the third age of safety. A review of approaches to organizational aspects of safety, health and environment
Andrew R. Hale and Jan Hovden
PART FIVE Safety interventions Introduction
12 Workplace organizational factors and occupational accidents
Harry S. Shannon
13 Safety interventions: international perspectives
Jorma Saari
14 Before it is too late: evaluating the effectiveness of interventions
Andrea Shaw and Verna Blewett
15 A three-dimensional model relating intervention and
cooperation to injury prevention: background, description and application
Ewa Menckel
PART sıx Rules or trust: ensuring compliance Introduction
16 Prevention of chemical injutv: an unconventional view
Richard T. Gun. Sally A Brinkman and Robert Cox17 The case for regulating compliance: a unionist's view
Yossi Berger
18 The case for industry self-regulation: introducing an alternative compliance system in the long distance road transport industry
18.1 New approaches to fatigue management: a regulator's perspective Gary Mahon
18.2 Road-transportation: industry perspective Denis Robertson
18.3 Driving hours regulations: a transport operator's perspective Paul Freestone
PART SEVEN The compensation system in Australia:
help or hindrance?
Introduction
19 Workers' compensation and common law: how the civil legal system discourages occupational injury prevention
James Leigh
20 Does compensation have a role in injury prevention?
Andrew Hopkins