Business management, health and safety, and environmental quality

1996 ◽  
pp. 263-275
Author(s):  
Paul A. Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Health And Safety

The Snow Festival: what went wrong?

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Pajaree Ackaradejruangsri
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
International Business ◽  
Potential Problem ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Content Type

Subject area Strategic and Business Management. Study level/applicability Sophomore level. Case overview This case is about unexpected incident at a Snow Festival, Plearn Park Thailand. Despite a great number of visitors, many serious concerns were raised, particularly the health and safety of people and the environmental impact of the fake snow. Mr Sun and his team tried their very best to address and solve the concerns. But no matter what actions were taken, the concerns and anxieties still remained. As the founder of Plearn Park, Sun decided to end the event. But still he could not get over it. He thought over and over, “what really went wrong with the Snow Festival?” Expected learning outcomes This case offers a rich context for examining the situation, analyzing the cause of the problem, evaluating the decision and exploring the potential problem with an aim to enhance students’ skills in problem-solving and decision-making through an actual incident in a larger environment. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 5: International Business.

REFERENCE DEPENDENCE AND OTHER BEHAVIORAL FINDINGS: THE LIKELIHOOD OF SERIOUS EVALUATION AND POLICY BIASES

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (03) ◽  
pp. 1640014
Author(s):  
JACK L. KNETSCH
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Additional Assumption ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Reference Dependence ◽  
Welfare Change ◽  
Empirical Tests ◽  
Policy Guidance ◽  
Benefit Cost

Standard economic theory correctly prescribes willingnes-to-pay (WTP) to most accurately assess the welfare change of gains and WTA to measure the welfare change of losses, and, in recognition of reference dependence, reductions of losses. However, its additional assumption of near equivalence between the measures, used to justify the current practice of using WTP for essentially all analyses, has been contradicted by numerous empirical tests. For many areas, and especially environmental quality and health and safety, this institutionally encouraged continuing reliance on presumption over evidence likely leads to serious bias in benefit-cost and related analyses and distortions in policy guidance.

scholarly journals Creating Participation of Employees in Improving Work Safety in Enterprise

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 689-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Gembalska-Kwiecień ◽  
Bożena Skotnicka-Zasadzień ◽  
Radosław Wolniak ◽  
Marián Bujna
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Management System ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Passive Attitude

Abstract The article deals with the issue of employees' participation in the security management system in an enterprise. The issue of participation was presented as well as empirical studies illustrating the problem of the study. The benefits from the creative participation of employees in a safety management system were also shown. It was stated that an employee’s participation in specific areas of business management is important and that it is a desirable direction in the development of the employees' staff and displaying joint responsibility for the workplace. The research was carried out in five enterprises engaged in the business of construction and renovation activities. The surveyed employees were employed in various positions and at various organizational levels, they took part in the survey and in individual interviews. Questions from the first part of the questionnaire generally concerned issues related to occupational health and safety. The second part concerned issues directly related to the safety management system as well as the creativity and participation of employees in improving work safety in the surveyed enterprise. Empirical studies have shown that some of the surveyed employees have a rather passive attitude towards systemic issues. The article uses the approach that puts human events in the epicenter as one of the most important drivers of changes taking place in enterprises. In order to further improve the functioning of the implemented and maintained systems, enterprises have created their own set of practiced forms of employee participation.

Model for Forecasting the Exposure Risk of Workers to Hand-Arm Occupational Vibrations

2013 ◽  
Vol 430 ◽  
pp. 276-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Dragos Vasilescu ◽  
Emilian Ghicioi ◽  
Sorin Simion ◽  
Vlad Pasculescu
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Exposure Risk ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Paper Work

This paper work presents the model for forecasting the exposure risk of workers to hand-arm occupational vibrations, which has been achieved in the PN 07 45 01 18 Project from within the framework of the NUCLEU/2012-2013 Program.This project is of national and European interest, in order to increase occupational health and safety level and to ensure sustainable environmental quality and comfort at work.

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