Musculoskeletal disorders among clerical workers in Los Angeles: A labor management approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (9) ◽  
pp. 1072-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Delp ◽  
Pin-Chieh Wang
2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 413-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Seto ◽  
Kristen Mathias ◽  
Nicole Zagelbaum Ward ◽  
Richard S. Panush

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Patrick A. Parsons ◽  
Jerry Belcher ◽  
Tom Jackson

Health care costs and the nature of the benefits package are an issue that plagues most jurisdictions. Written in a cooperative effort to reflect the perspectives of the labor and management co-chairs, Peoria's story is an example of the cooperation that has developed in that city. In addition to describing a remarkable city-wide effort to reduce health care costs and maintain an attractive benefit package, the article shows how success on a topic of importance to the parties and the community can sow the seeds of a broader cooperative relationship that improves services, quality of work life and the nature of the labor-management relationship. By agreement, the city and labor unions took the health care plan off the bargaining table, and instead, gave it to a city-wide joint committee, which solved the crisis and manages this difficult issue. Among other advances that mark a change from the past, the positive effects from the dramatic success in health care has contributed to a first-ever, five-year negotiated settlement between the city and the firefighters. Read about how Peoria accomplished this change by bold risk taking and by carefully nurturing the effort.


1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-132
Author(s):  
Archie Kleingartner ◽  
Kenneth Lloyd

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2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pin-Chieh Wang ◽  
David M. Rempel ◽  
Eric L. Hurwitz ◽  
Robert J. Harrison ◽  
Ira Janowitz ◽  
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Author(s):  
Kristin E. Larsen

This chapter focuses on Clarence Samuel Stein's contributions as a houser lending consistent support for a government role in order to more effectively engage the private sector while charting his transition to promoting investment housing as a preferable alternative to public housing. Stein and his colleagues enthusiastically welcomed the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as an unprecedented opportunity to advance regionalism, new town planning, and worker housing. As a community architect, Stein favored a particular type of assisted housing—“investment housing”—a comprehensive design, development, and management approach to ensure the project's ongoing sustainability at affordable rates. This chapter first considers Stein's Hillside Homes project in New York before discussing the Resettlement Administration's Greenbelt Town program. It also examines Stein's role as consulting architect for the Baldwin Hills Village in Los Angeles.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 02044
Author(s):  
Marina Romanovich ◽  
Peiyu Shi ◽  
Ziyue Wang ◽  
Liang Zhao ◽  
Vera Gerasimova

Since the reform and opening up in China, the rapid development of China's construction industry, especially after 2011, BIM technology in China has a rapid development and depth of application. This article mainly discusses the process of development of China's construction industry management and the process of development of BIM technology in China and, the use of software in China, the main use of revit in 3D modeling (design stage), the use of Guanglianda in the whole process of construction management. This article researches on Guanglianda and the applications were described, for example, in the integrated project of management information, labor management information, construction video surveillance, material management, material site acceptance. This paper also elaborates on the cooperation of Revit and Guanglianda in different stages. This paper also elaborates on a construction case in China, and makes a description of the problems of crane, facts and time, and then explores the reasons behind the rapid construction of China. And the feasibility of China's construction management approach to the introduction of Russia.


2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Rosifah ◽  
Susy Susmartini ◽  
Irwan Iftadi

<p><em>Observations made at work stations </em><em>of </em><em> batik cap</em><em> production,</em><em> there are still some working conditions that are not appropriate on the</em><em>ir</em><em> worker, one of which is unnatural posture. Unusual work postures that can trigger the occurrence of pain complaints such as musculoskeletal disorders (musculoskeletal disorders). Often unwittingly</em><em>,</em><em> batik workers work with positions or postures that have health risks such as musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Based on the observation seen that at the work station batik production there are </em><em>some </em><em>problems related work methods. Therefore, to improve which work station needs to be repaired, it is necessary to do risk assessment of batik production station work posture using Visual Management approach.</em></p><p><em>                    </em><em>The Visual Management approach in this study uses the ergonomic analysis method for the whole body of REBA (Rapid Entire Body Assessment) and OWAS (Ovako Working Posture Analysis System), upper limb RULA (Rapid Upper limb Assessment) and OCRA checklist and by adding some aspects Associated with overload and repetitiveness in the OCRA checklist and OWAS.</em></p><em>                Based on the assessment of work posture by visual management method, the result of OES value shows 3 processes with OES value ≤ 0.4 with accepted operational status and 2 process with OES value is in the range 0.4 &lt;OES ≤ 0.5, with operational status becomes' necessary further investigation, Changes may be required</em>


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