Knowledge transfer with children and adolescents in promoting comfort, health, and safety in technology use: Strategies and opportunities

Work ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flora To-Miles ◽  
Lynn Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Health And Safety

scholarly journals The Determinants Of Primary Employment In U.S. States

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Halil Dincer Kaya
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Safety Regulations ◽  
Zoning Regulations ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Main Components ◽  
And Training

We examine the relationship between `primary employment` and `business friendliness` of U.S. states. Do states with a low score in `business friendliness` worry small business owners too much and hence force them to run their business as their primary job? We look at several main components of `business friendliness` including `Ease of start`, `Ease of hire`, `Overall regulations`, and `Training and networking`. We also look at subcomponents including the different types of regulations and technology use. How does each of these factors affect a business owner’s decision to focus mainly on his/her business? We use the `United States Small Business Friendliness Survey` done by Kauffman Foundation and Thumptack.com in 2013 and converted the letter scores ranging from A+ to F in the survey to numerical scores ranging from 12 to 1 (i.e. 1 being the lowest score which corresponds to F). Therefore, after the conversion, each state has a numerical score on each business-friendliness category. The survey also asks business owners if they use the internet when starting a business, when paying their taxes, or when licensing. For each state, we compute the percentage of owners in each state using the internet when starting a business, when paying their taxes, or when licensing. We call these three percentage numbers for each state their `Internetstart`, `Internettax`, and `Internetlicensing` scores. Then, using the mean score for all states for each type of regulation or internet score, we divide the states into two groups: the `high-score states` and the `low-score states`. In our analysis, we use non-parametric tests to compare the `high-score states` to the `low-score states`. Our non-parametric tests show that although none of the main components (i.e. `Ease of start`, `Ease of hire`, `Overall regulations`, and `Training and networking`) seem to affect `primary employment`, the overall business friendliness score of a state significantly affects `primary employment`. When we examine the different types of regulations, we find that `Health and safety regulations`, `Licensing regulations`, and `Zoning regulations` affect `primary employment`. `Employment regulations`, `Tax code`, or `Environmental regulations` does not have a significant impact. These findings may indicate that business owners are more worried with regard to Health and safety regulations, Licensing regulations, and Zoning regulations, therefore more of them choose to take matters into their own hands. Another possible explanation may be the relative complexity of the tasks associated with these regulations. Finally, our results show that technology use in the entrepreneurial process does not affect `Primary employment`.

scholarly journals Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness

2014 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 1232-1237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Chang ◽  
Daniel Aeschbach ◽  
Jeanne F. Duffy ◽  
Charles A. Czeisler
Keyword(s):  
Circadian Clock ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Light Exposure ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Biological Clock ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Circadian Phase ◽  
The Impact

In the past 50 y, there has been a decline in average sleep duration and quality, with adverse consequences on general health. A representative survey of 1,508 American adults recently revealed that 90% of Americans used some type of electronics at least a few nights per week within 1 h before bedtime. Mounting evidence from countries around the world shows the negative impact of such technology use on sleep. This negative impact on sleep may be due to the short-wavelength–enriched light emitted by these electronic devices, given that artificial-light exposure has been shown experimentally to produce alerting effects, suppress melatonin, and phase-shift the biological clock. A few reports have shown that these devices suppress melatonin levels, but little is known about the effects on circadian phase or the following sleep episode, exposing a substantial gap in our knowledge of how this increasingly popular technology affects sleep. Here we compare the biological effects of reading an electronic book on a light-emitting device (LE-eBook) with reading a printed book in the hours before bedtime. Participants reading an LE-eBook took longer to fall asleep and had reduced evening sleepiness, reduced melatonin secretion, later timing of their circadian clock, and reduced next-morning alertness than when reading a printed book. These results demonstrate that evening exposure to an LE-eBook phase-delays the circadian clock, acutely suppresses melatonin, and has important implications for understanding the impact of such technologies on sleep, performance, health, and safety.

Improving the health and safety of 911 emergency call centre agents: an evaluability assessment of a knowledge transfer strategy

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Dagenais ◽  
Laurence Plouffe ◽  
Charles Gagné ◽  
Georges Toulouse ◽  
Andrée-Anne Breault ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Emergency Call ◽  
Call Centre ◽  
Evaluability Assessment ◽  
Emergency Call Centre

scholarly journals Children Working Alone in Alberta: How Child Labour and Working Alone Regulations Interact

Just Labour ◽  
1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Barnetson
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Canadian Province ◽  
Working Alone

The Canadian province of Alberta does not effectively enforce its child labourlaws. This non-enforcement interacts with the working-alone regulations inAlberta’sOccupational Health and Safety Actto deny workers under age 15meaningful solo work protection. As a result, children and adolescents areexposed to the hazards adults face while working alone as well as hazardsunique to children and adolescents working alone. This suggests that failing toenforce child labour laws has both obvious and subtle effects. The subtle effectsare difficult to identify and remediate, in part because of the initial regulatoryfailure is politically difficult to acknowledge.

Transfer mechanisms and strategic knowledge management in health and safety companies

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos M. Zambrano ◽  
Vanessa Pertuz ◽  
Adith Adith Pérez ◽  
Daysi C. Straccia
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Strategic Knowledge ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Experimental Cross ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Strategic Knowledge Management ◽  
Transfer Mechanisms

This paper aims to analyse the knowledge transfer mechanisms and strategic knowledge management inoccupational safety and health (OSH) companies. The main authors consulted for the study were Davenport(6), Molina, and Marsal (8). The research is descriptive, non-experimental, cross-sectional and withfield design. Results indicate that the spontaneous transference is present through personal meetings, andformal transference is mainly characterized by counselling. We found weaknesses in the strategic analysisand objectives definitions for the strategic knowledge management in the studied organizations.

Is the General Medical Council in need of revalidation?

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (12) ◽  
pp. 726-729
Author(s):  
Prasanna de Silva
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
General Medical Council ◽  
Medical Council ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Teaching Standards ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk

The General Medical Council was originally set up to ‘protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public’. In 2012, the Privy Council instructed the General Medical Council to set up and run a licensing and revalidation system for all practicing doctors in the UK, to protect patients from actions of medical staff. Despite this mandate, the General Medical Council has been a bystander in a series of regulatory failures. Without these episodes having been highlighted by family members, public investigations would not have been carried out. The maintenance of medical performance is delegated to NHS employers, which could cause conflicts of interests when employers have to investigate doctors as part of a team. The other responsibility of the General Medical Council is to monitor teaching standards and curricula of medical schools in the UK, which it does by eliciting feedback from students and trainees. The General Medical Council has not responded to ‘new ways of working’ (especially in England) involving non-medical staff undertaking tasks previously carried out by doctors. Furthermore, the General Medical Council has not updated its description of the role of the future doctor in light of increasing use of technology, use or non-use of which could both be considered to be evidence of poor practice.

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