scholarly journals The Use of the Development Index in the Assessment of Occupational Health and Safety Conditions - Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Boháč ◽  
Zygmunt Korban
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Multi Criteria Evaluation

Abstract Both one- and multi-criteria tasks can be distinguished depending on the number of criteria being considered. Illustrated with an example of seven selected underground workplaces, each described by the set of 10 elements, this article discusses the possibilities to use the development index mi for determination of the workplaces which, in the light of the multi-criteria evaluation, are characterised by the worst and most favourable working conditions.

scholarly journals Occupational Health and Safety Management in Terms of Special Employee Needs – Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
Marta Niciejewska
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Sensory Integration ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Employee Needs ◽  
Special Working

Abstract Every employer is responsible for ensuring safe and hygienic working conditions. According to the Labor Code and the relevant regulations, the elements of safe and hygienic working conditions in each enterprise are very similar. Differences arise when a specific industry or special psychophysical needs of an employee are taking into consideration. There is a specific group of employees for whom the working conditions organized by the employer in terms of occupational health and safety differ from the average working conditions. In the paper the needs, limitations and psychophysical possibilities of professionally active employees with sensory integration disorders are analyzed. In this purpose the direct interview with elements of open observation was used as the research method. The results presented in this paper are the small part (initial diagnosis) of the large project. Preliminary conclusions confirm the difficulty of adapting employees with sensory integration disorders to a universal work environment and the great need to organize special working conditions for them.

A Strategic Response to the Occupational Health Establishment

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Sass
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Workplace Hazards ◽  
Strategic Response ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Union Activists ◽  
The Way

The experiences of occupational health and safety “activists” in Canada reveal the limits of achieving reform in working conditions by technical efforts in combination with rank-and-file activation. The author argues that the way union “activists” approach occupational health and safety limits workers in dealing with their actual experiences and understanding about workplace hazards and risk, then discusses the conditions for the awakening of their critical consciousness as a basis of acting on hazardous working conditions. The first movement in the way the worker apprehends the work environment is a movement of negation and is the prior condition to a critical and disclosive discourse about workplace hazards. It is the positive side of “No!” and the taking seriously of workers' rights. It is this negation of the negative that holds out the greatest hope for solidarity and a liberatory community in workplaces, since legislated workers' rights as the basis of protection have become a facade. Workers can respond with the power of saying “No!” in solidarity with suffering workers, and then work through appropriate principles, ends, or strategies avoiding entrapment by a “telos” in the first instance. By laying out these “ends” or a strategic paradigm, one introduces a “conversation stopper” for workers and atrophies their activation.

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