Nate Holdren, Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pages xiii + 292 tables 2. £47.99 hardback. - Volume 36 Issue 2

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...

BACKGROUND To analyse workplace accidents, by considering the risks that provoke such accidents, bearing in mind that the final aim is to establish a classification of priority risks. This information will make it possible to undertake the opportune preventive actions against the most vulnerable risks. MATERIAL AND METHODS A set of statistical-mathematical techniques, essentially based on sta...

Singapore, an island republic of over 5 million inhabitants, has 3.1 million workers. Most are employed in the service, finance and tourist/transport industry. Significant numbers work in manufacturing, construction and heavy industry. Following a series of construction and shipyard accidents with multiple deaths in 2004, the government announced its intention to reduce workplace fatalities fro...

situation awareness is an important factor in the incidence of industrial accidents. improving situation awareness may help to prevent occupational accidents. determination of factors influencing the situation awareness will help to plan and implement the measures for improving working conditions and making a safer workplace. in this study, was examined the role of work overload and sleepiness ...

original article   emotional intelligence (ei) has been subject of significant amounts of literature over the past two decades. however, little has been contributed to how emotional intelligence may be practically applied to enhance both accident prevention program and general health in workplaces. purpose of this paper is to survey relationship among these variables in working society of iran ...