scholarly journals Workplace Accidents and Workplace Safety: On Under-reporting and Temporary Jobs

Labour ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Palali ◽  
Jan C. van Ours
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Workplace Accidents

Governing workplace safety through apparatuses: A historical study of the French construction industry in the 20th century

Organization ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 737-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibault Daudigeos ◽  
Stéphane Jaumier ◽  
Amélie Boutinot
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
Critical Management ◽  
Composite Nature ◽  
Power Arrangements ◽  
Critical Management Studies

Critical management studies have largely failed to offer a comprehensive understanding of the devising and implementation of workplace-safety policies and of the complex power arrangements these may imply. By primarily studying forms of control in relative isolation, these studies have instead produced various puzzles, namely, the persistence of a disciplinary treatment of workplace safety within the current neo-liberal era and the paucity of resistance to this. Drawing on the Foucauldian concept of apparatus and related analytical framework, we propose to remedy this through analysing the successive arrangements governing workplace accidents in the French construction industry during the 20th century. We evidence three successive regimes of control in which distinct apparatuses interact in various ways across different settings. Our study testifies to the composite nature of regimes of control governing workplace safety, and shows how it may impinge upon power relations, ultimately allowing more relevant struggles for a safer workplace to be envisaged. Additionally, by proposing an operationalization of the so-far-overlooked concept of apparatus, our study elaborates on the relevance of the governmentalist tradition for critical management studies.

scholarly journals Safety at work and immigration

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-221
Author(s):  
Cristina Bellés-Obrero ◽  
Nicolau Martin Bassols ◽  
Judit Vall Castello
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Instrumental Variables ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Administrative Dataset ◽  
Native Workers ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
Immigration Debate ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
The Universe

Abstract This paper examines the effect of immigration on workplace safety, an understudied outcome in the literature. We use a novel administrative dataset of the universe of workplace accidents reported in Spain from 2003 to 2015 and follow an instrumental variables (IV) strategy based on the distribution of early migrants across provinces. Our results show that the massive inflow of immigrants between 2003 and 2009 reduced the number of workplace accidents by 10,980 for native workers (7% of the overall reduction during that period). This decline in workplace accidents is driven by Spanish-born workers shifting away from manual occupations to occupations involving more interpersonal interactions. Immigrant flows during the economic crisis (2010–2015) had no impact on natives’ workplace safety. The scarcity of jobs during that period may have prevented shifts between occupations. Finally, we find no effects of immigration on the workplace safety of immigrants. These results add a previously unexplored dimension to the immigration debate that should be taken into account when evaluating the costs and benefits of migration flows.

Health Economics of the Workplace: Workplace Accidents and Effects of Job Loss and Retirement

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan C. van Ours
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
Negative Effect

There are three main topics in research on the effects of work on health. The first topic is workplace accidents where the main issues are reporting behavior and workplace safety policies. A worker seems to be less inclined to report a workplace accident for fear of job loss when unemployment is high or when the worker has a temporary contract that may not be renewed. Workplace safety legislation has intended to reduce the incidence and severity of workplace accidents but empirical evidence on this result is unclear. The second topic is employment and health where the focus is on how job characteristics and job loss affect health, in particular mental health. Physically demanding jobs have negative health effects. The effects of working hours vary and the effects of job loss on physical and mental health are not uniform. Job loss seems to increase mortality. The third topic concerns retirement and health. Retirement seems to have a negative effect on cognitive skills and short-term positive effects on overall health. Other than that, the effects are very inconsistent, that is, even with as clear a measure as mortality, it is not clear whether life expectancy goes up, goes down, or remains constant due to retirement.

Dewesternizing Precarity in Turkish TV Drama Production through the Body and the Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 152747642110439
Author(s):  
Ergin Bulut
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
The Body ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
Creative Workers

Beneath Turkish TV dramas’ global glamor lie workplace accidents, systemic injuries on workers’ bodies, and deaths. In response, workers seek to impose restraints on what can be done to their bodies by resorting to law and evoking ideals of equality as they struggle for workplace safety, healthcare, and dignity. Drawing on ethnographic research across production sets, industry summits, union meetings and more than fifty interviews since 2015, this article documents drama workers’ bodily vulnerabilities, arguing that precarity in this global media industry is a bodily phenomenon legally sanctioned by the state. I dewesternize the notion of precarity in creative industries by foregrounding the materiality of the body and the regulative power of law as centers of exploitation and resistance. Critical scholars of media production could learn from non-Western contexts in identifying how creative workers do not only demand stable incomes but also legal recognition and protection of their bodies.

scholarly journals Accident Rate as a Measure of Safety Assessment in Polish Civil Engineering

Safety ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Wieslawa Cieslewicz ◽  
Krystyna Araszkiewicz ◽  
Pawel Sikora
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Accident Rate ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
High Volatility ◽  
Accident Rates

Civil engineering is characterised by high volatility with respect to working conditions, which are the source of many threats to worker life and health and contribute to high accident rates. The purpose of this paper is to analyse and evaluate the phenomenon of accidents in Polish civil engineering and define the direction of changes that should occur in the safety area. The studies included in this research covered the years 2004–2018. The following indicators were used to assess the accident rates: (1) The total number of persons injured in workplace accidents and this total divided into fatal, severe, and minor accidents; (2) indicators of frequency of accidents in total and this total divided into minor, severe, and fatal accidents; (3) and an indicator of the severity of accidents. From the analysis of statistical data for the years 200–2018, the changes in accident rate parameters demonstrate the continuous improvement of workplace safety in the Polish civil engineering sector. From the analysed data from the 15 years, a clear decrease in the value of the applied indicators is apparent, including both the number of people involved in accidents and the frequency and severity of accidents.

scholarly journals KAJIAN TERHADAP PENGURUSAN KESELAMATAN PEKERJA DI PERBADANAN STADIUM HANG JEBAT

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-108
Author(s):  
ZULKIFLY BIN TAMBY OMAR ◽  
WIRDATI MOHD RADZI
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Employee Safety ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
Hot Weather

Abstrak  Penekanan terhadap kepentingan keselamatan yang berkesan adalah amat penting untuk kecemerlangan sesebuah organisasi (Overheul, 2001). Pelbagai faktor luaran dan dalaman organisasi yang sering kali berubah mendorong pihak organisasi agar peka dengan ancaman persekitaran. Di tempat kerja, kajian tentang isu keselamatan pekerja menjadi satu perbincangan yang serius dari semasa ke semasa (Cox & Cheyne, 2000). Justeru, kajian ini dilakukan untuk mengenal pasti tahap keselamatan pekerja, faktor dominan yang mempengaruhi pekerja untuk mengabaikan keselamatan dan tahap kesediaan organisasi terhadap sebarang kejadian kemalangan. Kajian ini melibatkan 70 orang responden yang bertugas di bawah Perbadanan Stadium Hang Jebat, Melaka. Bagi memperoleh data kajian, kaedah tinjauan menggunakan borang soal selidik telah diedarkan kepada responden. Data dianalisis menggunakan program IBM Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) statistic versi 24. Kaedah analisis berbentuk deskriptif seperti kekerapan, peratusan dan min digunakan bagi menjawab objektif kajian. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahawa tahap keselamatan di lokasi kajian adalah memuaskan kerana kempen dan aktiviti yang berkaitan dengan keselamatan sentiasa dilaksanakan. Sementara itu, tahap kesediaan organisasi dalam menghadapi kemalangan di tempat kerja berada pada tahap yang baik kerana penggubalan polisi keselamatan berkait rapat dengan suasana kerja. Cuaca panas yang melampau dikenal pasti sebagai salah satu faktor yang menyebabkan para pekerja mengabaikan aspek keselamatan di tempat kerja.  Kata kunci: Keselamatan, tempat kerja, pengurusan, pekerja, amalan. Abstract Emphasizing on effective workplace safety is crucial for organizational excellence (Overheul, 2001). Changes in external and internal factors encourage the organization to be aware of environmental threats. In the workplace, studies on employee safety become a serious discussion across the world (Cox & Cheyne, 2000). Hence, this study is conducted to identify the level of employee’s safety, the dominant factors affecting employees to neglect the safety and the level of organizational readiness against any incidents. This study involved 70 respondents who were under the Stadium Hang Jebat Corporation, Melaka. A questionnaire was distributed to respondents to obtain the data. The data was analysed using the Statistical Package For Social Science (SPSS) Statistic version 24. Descriptive analysis methods such as frequency, percentage and mean were used to answer the objective of the study. The results showed that the safety level was satisfactory and the readiness of the organization to deal with workplace accidents was at a good level. Extreme hot weather has been identified as one of the factors that causes workers to ignore safety at workplace. Keywords: Safety, workplace, management, workers, practice.

Development of Safety Cost on Upper Structure Building Based on Work Breakdown Structure

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 864-873
Author(s):  
Chyntia Christina Darongke ◽  
Yusuf Latief
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
The Other ◽  
Safety Risk ◽  
Work Breakdown Structure ◽  
Structure Building ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
The Cost

Construction as one of the most influencing industry to the country’s economy on the other hand also have the highest number of workplace accidents. Based on the data, 32% of accidental cases in Indonesia happened on constructional sectors. Hazard combine with work environments, workers behavior, organizational factor are the few reasons on the high number of workplace accident. In order to controlling the accidents, the safety risks in the construction industry need to be addressed. This paper aims to developing the standardized work breakdown structure for upper structure in building as a series of task in the form activities and to identify the safety risks in construction project based on work breakdown structure in order to effectively listing the workplace safety risk to maximizing the prevention. The risks listed also following by the prevention needed for controlling the risks, and the prevention would help to develop the component needed for cost of safety. In the end, the component of the cost of safety based on the prevention on the risk for each work breakdown structure will be more detailed and accurate.

Mobilizing for Mass Action

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Lorence
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Mass Action ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
Safety Committee ◽  
Ultimate Result ◽  
The Right ◽  
Ongoing Concern

This chapter examines how an important feature of Jencks' encouragement of rank-and-file engagement in union affairs was an ongoing concern about both worker health issues and workplace safety measures. Under Jencks' leadership the union persistently called upon mining management to meet their obligations to men who had “given their entire working lives” to the corporations. Even more important to Jencks and Local 890 leaders was the issue of safety on the job. He and his comrades were scrupulous about monitoring workplace accidents, which occurred all too frequently. The ultimate result was the creation of a permanent Union Safety Committee, which insisted on the right to have their voices heard and the inclusion of Jencks in all future inspection tours.

scholarly journals The impact of emotional contagion on workplace safety: Investigating the roles of sleep, health, and production pressure

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Petitta ◽  
Tahira M. Probst ◽  
Valerio Ghezzi ◽  
Claudio Barbaranelli
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Disturbances ◽  
Emotional Contagion ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Emotional Demand ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
Conditional Indirect Effects ◽  
Restorative Sleep ◽  
The Impact

AbstractUsing emotional contagion theory and the Job Demands-Resources model as a theoretical foundation, we tested the proposition that higher levels of contagion of anger (i.e., a demand) vs. higher levels of contagion of joy (i.e., a resource) will be associated respectively with more vs. fewer sleep disturbances and health problems, which in turn are related to more workplace accidents and injuries. Moreover, we examined the moderating impact of production pressure (i.e., a contextual demand) on the relationship between emotional contagion and employee poor sleep and health. Data from 1000 employees in Italy showed that the conditional indirect effects of contagion of anger, but not of joy, on accidents and injuries via sleep and health problems were intensified as levels of production pressure increased. Furthermore, contagion of anger was positively associated with both sleep disturbances and health problems whereas contagion of joy was negatively related to only sleep disturbances. These findings suggest that the effect of anger that employees absorb during social interactions at work likely persists when coming at home and represents an emotional demand that impairs the physiological functions that regulate restorative sleep and energies recharging; and, this effect is even stronger among employees who perceived higher levels of organizational production pressure.

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