Administrative warrants for health and safety inspections.

Seven warrants for qualitative health sociology.

The biomedical and public health sciences have established a clear warrant for their existence. A warrant is a broadly shared justification for a research-based discipline (Katz, 1997). From the post World War II WHO proclamation aiming for “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being” to a recent reconceptualization of health as “the ability to adapt and self-manage” (Huber et ...

Meeting Targets for Health and Safety: Analysis of Administrative and Survey Data

In the document Revitalising Health and Safety Strategy Statement (DETR, 2000), the government set out national targets for health and safety. Included within these targets is to achieve a 10% reduction in the rate of fatal and major injury accidents by 2010. Initial assessments indicate that no discernible improvement in this indicator has occurred since the baseline year. The aim of this pape...

Redefining Workplace Safety and Health

Redefining Workplace Safety and Health

Implementing Road Safety Inspections in Ireland and Initial Results

1. ABSTRACT This paper will focus on changes to the implementation of road safety inspections in Ireland following the requirement, under EU Directive 2008/96/EC on Road Infrastructure Safety Management (2008), for the establishment of periodic road safety inspections (RSI) of existing roads, along with safety impact assessments, high accident concentration ranking and road safety audits (RSA)....