A labor–management approach to addressing health risks in the unionized construction sector.

2019 ◽  
pp. 179-191
Author(s):  
Jamie F. Becker ◽  
Scott P. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Labor Management

scholarly journals The Development of Absorptive Capacity-Based Innovation in a Construction SME

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney McAdam ◽  
Kristel Miller ◽  
Nora McMacken ◽  
John Davies
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Organizational Setting ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Design Bid Build

Traditionally, construction has been a transaction-oriented industry. However, it is changing from the design–bid–build process into a business based on innovation capability and performance management, in which contracts are awarded on the basis of factors such as knowledge, intellectual capital and skills. This change presents a challenge to construction-sector SMEs with scarce resources, which must find ways to innovate based on those attributes to ensure their future competitiveness. This paper explores how dynamic capability, using an absorptive capacity framework in response to these challenges, has been developed in a construction-based SME. The paper also contributes to the literature on absorptive capacity and innovation by showing how the construct can be operationalized within an organization. The company studied formed a Knowledge Transfer Partnership using action research over a two-year period with a local university. The aim was to increase its absorptive capacity and hence its ability to meet the changing market challenges. The findings show that absorptive capacity can be operationalized into a change management approach for improving capability-based competitiveness. Moreover, it is important for absorptive capacity constructs and language to be contextualized within a given organizational setting (as in the case of the construction-based SME in the present study).

A Labor-Management Approach to Health Care Cost Savings: The Peoria Experience

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Patrick A. Parsons ◽  
Jerry Belcher ◽  
Tom Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Health Care Cost ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Labor Management ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The City ◽  
Care Costs

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.

scholarly journals Work conditions and health risks of persons employed in construction in Latvia

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Tatjana Farbtuha ◽  
Žanna Martinsone ◽  
Ivars Vanadziņš ◽  
Jānis Dundurs ◽  
Inese Mārtiņsone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Employee Health ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Work Condition ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Work Related ◽  
State Revenue

Work conditions and health risks of persons employed in construction in Latvia The health effects of the work condition in construction were the focus for this study. The construction sector involves numerous risk factors, which can essentially endanger employee health and safety by causing accidents, occupational diseases and work-related diseases. The aim of this study was to examine the work condition, identity risk factors in the workplace, analyse the morbidity and accidents in the construction sector. According to the data of the State Revenue Service, the number of persons employed in construction in Latvia is growing each year. In the construction sector the number of accidents per 100 000 employees has tended to fall between 2003 and 2005, but the number of serious accidents has risen 1.3 times. Employees in construction companies are not sufficiently informed about the work environment risk factors and their influence on health and safety.

scholarly journals Salud y riesgos laborales por el manejo de sílice en el proceso de sandblasting./ Health risks and labor management in the process of silica sandblasting

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Jose Del Carmen Jaimes Morales ◽  
Ingrid Daniela Rocha Manjarrez ◽  
Edna Margarita Gómez Bustamante ◽  
Carlos Alberto Severiche Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks ◽  
Labor Management

RESUMEN El proceso de limpieza de superficies mediante el impacto de un chorro de partículas abrasivas se conoce como blasting, cuando el abrasivo utilizado es la arena, se llama sandblasting. La arena contiene sílice, el cual es el segundo mineral más abundante en la naturaleza. La sílice cristalina al ser inhalada, hace que el tejido pulmonar reaccione desarrollando nódulos fibróticos, los cuales afectan la respiración disminuyendo su capacidad de oxigenación. Este tipo de neumoconiosis se conoce como silicosis que puede conllevar a la muerte. El control debe ser permanente y fundamentado en la disminución del factor de riesgo, cómo agente clave de la prevención. En este articulo se hace una revisión bibliográfica exhaustiva sobre la salud y riesgos ocupacionales por el manejo de sílice en el proceso de sandblasting, inicialmente se abordan los usos de la sílice en la industria del sandblasting, seguidamente se presenta la exposición ambiental, ocupacional y los efectos en la salud, además de dar a conocer el mecanismo de toxicidad y la normatividad vigente respecto al uso de este químico, por último se evidencian los retos presentes y futuros para el manejo adecuado y sostenible de la sílice en el ámbito industrial. Palabras Claves: Silicosis, Toxicidad, Prevención, Abrasivo, Normatividad   

scholarly journals Research on Chinese Intelligent Guanglianda in High-rise Construction

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 02044
Author(s):  
Marina Romanovich ◽  
Peiyu Shi ◽  
Ziyue Wang ◽  
Liang Zhao ◽  
Vera Gerasimova
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Labor Management ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Information Construction ◽  
Reform And Opening Up

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.

The Globalization of Health: Risks, Responses, and Alternatives

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 245-269
Author(s):  
Richard L. Harris ◽  
Melinda J. Seid
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks

Health Risks, Outcomes, and Globalization Issues With Women

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (30) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie L. Brooke
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks
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