Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to increase our understanding of the relationships between the workplace as a learning environment, strategies for competence development used by SMEs and learning outcomes. Specifically, there is a focus on a distinction between formal and integrated strategies for competence development, the conditions under which these strategies are likely to be used, ...

The Five Ds of the built environment – density, land use diversity, pedestrian oriented design, destination accessibility and distance to transit – are suggested by Ewing and Cervero (2010) as the built environment factors that can reduce car use in favour of public transport, walking and cycling. This paper examines the strength of these effects by analysing whether built environment factors c...

In the context of industrial engineering, the predetermined time systems (PTS) play an important role in workplaces because inefficiencies are found in assembly processes that require manual manipulations. In this study, an approach is proposed with the aim to analyze time and motions in a manual process using a capture motion system embedded to a virtual environment. Capture motion system trac...

There are dozens of software systems classified as knowledge building environments. ‘Knowledge building environment’ has an attractive 21 Century, knowledge society ring to it, but how is a knowledge building environment different from a learning environment and what makes it an environment rather than a tool? This article addresses these questions, providing answers that suggest that a fully-r...

This review deals with three aspects of occupational health practices in Japan, i.e., working environment control, work practice management and health care, with an emphasis upon working environment control. Control of chemical hazards and physical agents in working environment is of prime importance to prevent workers from health impairments due to the hazardous agents. The Japanese legislativ...

This article focuses on the psychosocial work environment of immigrant cleaners at a Danish workplace. Today, many cleaners working in Danish cleaning jobs are women from the established immigrant communities, but also labour migrants from the newer EU member states have found their way to the cleaning industry. Studies have drawn attention to immigrants' low position in the cleaning industry a...

INTRODUCTION This work addresses the problem of helping learners develop concepts and skills needed to be productive in the fast-changing technical workplace. It marries the kind of informal, on-demand learning preferred by workplace professionals and advocated by learning theorists with the support for learning at a distance afforded by networked computing environments (Schlager, Means, O’Day,...

OBJECTIVE To provide a baseline description of psychosocial workplace stressors and supports along with safety, injury, health, and well-being indicators in a sample of utility and construction workers for a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-funded Total Worker Health™ intervention study. METHODS Survey responses and health assessments were collected from a total of 349 em...

Introduction THIS PAPER seeks to demonstrate how case study research (CSR) was used for rigorous enquiry in a study of work placements used by further education (FE) students on a health studies programme in the UK. These students use similar placements to higher education (HE) students on pre-registration nursing programmes in the UK. Consequently, the study offered insight into the student ex...