scholarly journals Charting a politics of hope through representation

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Wadick
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
The Body ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Safety Research ◽  
Workplace Health And Safety ◽  
Medical Discourses ◽  
Visibility Politics

Editor’s summary: Phillip Wadick comments ‘I have been forced to insert my body into the frame as I contemplate what facilitates safe bodies’.  His various representational forms support a position towards workplace health and safety research that offers alternatives to dominant structuralist and positivist paradigms that tend to objectify and commodify the body. His ‘wanderings and wonderings’ occur in a field where workers’ are so sceptical of the about ‘visibility politics’ around safety they expose themselves to bodily risks.  The disjunction between the ‘theoretical and impersonal bodies’ of dominant technical and medical discourses of workplace safety and the human encounters and social interactions affecting ’individual and personal bodies’ led him to disrupt ‘old certainties’ and fixed oppositions in favour of poststructuralist thinking and alternative forms of representing knowledge. Hope emerged where workers ‘found energy for change in the space between the arbitrary and unhelpful oppositions’.

scholarly journals DETERMINANT OF SAFETY AND WORKPLACE SAFETY IN WORK ENVIRONMENT PT. PERUSAHAAN LISTRIK NEGARA (PERSERO) SULUTTENGGO AREA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Genita Gracia Lumintang ◽  
Paulus Kindangen ◽  
Adolfina
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Workplace Health And Safety ◽  
Permanent Employees ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of organizational characteristics, and individual characteristics on physical environment component, psychosocial component, and behavior component toward workplace safety and health in PT. PLN (Persero) Suluttenggo area. The object of this research is permanent employees or outsourcing employees in PT. PLN (Persero) Suluttenggo Area. Research Design used in this research is survey research, in which the sample collected by distributing questionnaires to 50 permanent employees and outsourcing employees that already worked as work partner of PT. PLN (Persero) Suluttenggo Area. As for the analysis instrument is using partial least squares (PLS). The result shows that organizational characteristic has a positive influence on the components of work environment, either physically or psychosocially; and on behavior as well as the workplace health and safety. On the other hand, individual characteristic doesn’t have an influence. The result of this research also shows that only the individual behavior that has a positive influence on workplace health and safety, while physical work environment does not, meanwhile psychosocial component has a negative influence on workplace health and safety.

Legislation in Australia: Social Control or Education?

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 115-117
Author(s):  
Tenille Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Or Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Workplace Health And Safety ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

The primary function of legislation in Australia is that of an educative one rather than an enforcement role. An example of legislation the main function of which is to educate is the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1985 (O.H.&S. Act). The main aim of the Act is to legislate for a safe work place, breaches of the Act can induce human suffering, therefore the Act is designed to prevent workplace accidents, not to prosecute.The O.H.&S. Act was introduced after a time of social change. The sixties and seventies were times of protest on matters concerning equality for women and for many underprivileged groups. As a result of this, a demand for the rights of safety within the workplace followed. With the advent of the Act in 1985 came a legitimation to the premises of workplace health and safety. The demands for workplace health and safety were recognised by the government and it accommodated by legislating for a safe workplace. The OH & S Act satisfies a need to educate the public on workplace safety and the right to workplace rehabilitation after a workplace illness, by using many social mechanisms. These mechanisms include the set up of a beaurocratic organisation—Workcover, to administer the Act. Workcover educates the public through the use of training schemes, graphic television commercials and standards as a guide to correct practice. Evolution of the Act to management of safety by employers and employees demonstrated that legislation is a self-referential system that has feedback loops which are the result of the education of society. The mechanisms used in the processes of education are socially constructed. Legislation is therefore used to guide society into acceptance of an ideal/framework.

Roundtable on OSHA at 20: What Now?

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-65
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Workplace Health And Safety ◽  
The Many

ON A WINTRY DAY LAST DECEMBER, nearly 20 years to the day after the nation's lawmakers approved the Occupational Safety and Health Act that aimed to substantially curb the injury, illness and death that are an everyday fact of life in America's workplaces, New Solutions convened a panel of invited guests at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., to gauge just how far we have come. Earlier, in the premiere issue of New Solutions, we had run Charles Noble's analysis of “OSHA at 20.” It gave us starting points for a searching discussion of workplace health and safety in this country from the many perspectives that were represented by our panelists (see box, page 65). All of the opinions and comments made during the discussion represent the participants' own viewpoints and are in no way a reflection of the opinions or views of the agencies or organizations with which they are associated. We asked panelists Charles Noble and Richard Pfeffer to begin the discussion with their analyses of the problems. The talk went on for hours, all of it captured on tape. Insights were plentiful; frustrations were obvious; the suggestions, many. Here is Part 1 of a two-part edited transcript of the Roundtable on OSHA, the agency that is 20 years old this April, and the OSH Act which established it. Part 2 will run in an upcoming issue of this journal. We invite you to join the controversy with your letters and longer comments.

scholarly journals The Interface of Safety and Security; The Workplace

2020 ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
George Boustras
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Psychosocial Issues ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Workplace Health And Safety ◽  
Main Factors

Abstract 9/11 had a great impact on the development and occurrence of high publicity security-related incidents. One of the biggest impacts was that to public health, due to an increase in psychosocial issues. Cybersecurity incidents and processes of radicalization (either due to religious, political, or economic reasons) can have a direct result on the workplace as well as at the organizational level, which in turn can affect the worker. The aim of this chapter is to explain the main factors linking safety and security, creating a new area for workplace health and safety, that of the “interface of safety and security”.

Functionalized nanomaterials and workplace health and safety

2022 ◽  
pp. 393-406
Author(s):  
Vildan Erduran ◽  
Muhammed Bekmezci ◽  
Ramazan Bayat ◽  
Zübeyde Bayer Altuntaş ◽  
Fatih Sen
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Functionalized Nanomaterials ◽  
Workplace Health And Safety

scholarly journals Assessing Workplace Health and Safety Strategies, Trends, and Barriers through a Statewide Worksite Survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (14) ◽  
pp. 2475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ami Sedani ◽  
Derry Stover ◽  
Brian Coyle ◽  
Rajvi J. Wani
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Organizational Safety ◽  
Industry Sector ◽  
Safety Strategies ◽  
Workplace Health And Safety ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Over Time

Chronic diseases have added to the economic burden of the U.S. healthcare system. Most Americans spend most of their waking time at work, thereby, presenting employers with an opportunity to protect and promote health. The purpose of this study was to assess the implementation of workplace health governance and safety strategies among worksites in the State of Nebraska, over time and by industry sector using a randomized survey. Weighted percentages were compared by year, industry sector, and worksite size. Over the three study periods, 4784 responses were collected from worksite representatives. Adoption of workplace health governance and planning strategies increased over time and significantly varied across industry sector groups. Organizational safety policies varied by industry sector and were more commonly reported than workplace health governance and planning strategies. Time constraints were the most common barrier among worksites of all sizes, and stress was reported as the leading employee health issue that negatively impacts business. Results suggest that opportunities exist to integrate workplace health and safety initiatives, especially in blue-collar industry sectors and small businesses.

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