Lost Manhood

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Auto Workers ◽  
Union Representation ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
And Control

This chapter looks at how the mass-production work regime and the aggressive supervision of work all devalued and undermined an auto worker's sense of dignity and manhood. The brutal technical system established a highly controlled work environment of monotony and degradation. For skilled workers and those who aspired to such positions, the desired autonomy and control so essential for manly independence no longer existed. For others, the vicious speed-up, the endless fatigue, the absence of concern for health and safety, the abusive foremen and supervisors, and an uncivilized work environment all revealed lack of concern for human and manly dignity. Auto workers responded, individually and collectively, positively and negatively, to reframe and to reclaim a sense of their manhood through their sometimes retrograde shop floor behaviors, their efforts to fight back through union representation, and their general devaluation of women at work and in their local communities.

Reclaiming Manhood

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Auto Workers ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Family Wage ◽  
Male Culture

This chapter shows that, after mass production undermined and assailed their manhood, auto workers attempted to reassert or to reclaim it in numerous ways, some positive and some negative. They relied on shop traditions, some old and some new, to regain control over their working lives. They looked to and worked to build unions that would provide dignity, a structure to resist hated changes, and a family wage to enhance their personal and economic situations. They reveled in the sexual dimension of manhood in their ribald conversations on the shop floor and in the commercialized and sexual venues of the bachelor culture. As the Great Depression arrived and deepened, they would return to industrial unionism to mitigate the worst of the managerial abuses and would build a dense white and male culture at the workplace.

The Federal Ergonomic Standard in Brazil: Its Social Historic Process

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thais Helena De Carvalho Barreira ◽  
Mary Lee Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Safety Regulations ◽  
Control Regulation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technical Advances ◽  
Federal Standard ◽  
And Control

Brazil has a Federal Ergonomic Standard [1] enacted in 1990 that attracts the attention of practitioners in occupational health and safety fields because it is viewed symbolically as a political gain and because of its technical advances. The 1990 ergonomic standard modified a former one that was issued within a set of 28 occupational health and safety regulations established in 1978 [2]. This article focuses on the social and historical steps in a persistent workers' struggle for a healthier work environment in the late 1980s that resulted in this federal standard as a “command-and-control” regulation pioneering a wide tripartite process of policy-making in Brazil.

scholarly journals Reaching the summit of discharge summaries: a quality improvement project

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. e001142
Author(s):  
Richard Thomas Richmond ◽  
Isobel Joy McFadzean ◽  
Pramodh Vallabhaneni
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Improve Patient Care ◽  
Discharge Summary ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Improvement Project ◽  
Step Model ◽  
Assessment Unit ◽  
Discharge Summaries

BackgroundDischarge summaries need to be completed in a timely manner, to improve communication between primary and secondary care, and evidence suggests that delays in discharge summary completion can lead to patient harm.Following a hospital health and safety review due to the sheer backlog of notes in the doctor’s room and wards, urgent action had to be undertaken to improve the discharge summary completion process at our hospital’s paediatric assessment unit. It was felt that the process would best be carried out within a quality improvement (QI) project.MethodsKotter’s ‘eight-step model for change’ was implemented in this QI project with the aim to clear the existing backlog of pending discharge summaries and improve the timeliness of discharge summary completion from the hospital’s paediatric assessment unit. A minimum target of 10% improvement in the completion rate of discharge summaries was set as the primary goal of the project.ResultsFollowing the implementation of the QI processes, we were able to clear the backlog of discharge summaries within 9 months. We improved completion within 24 hours, from <10% to 84%, within 2 months. The success of our project lies in the sustainability of the change process; to date we have consistently achieved the target completion rates since the inception of the project. As a result of the project, we were able to modify the junior doctor rota to remove discharge summary duty slots and bolster workforce on the shop floor. This is still evident in November 2020, with consistently improved discharge summary rates.ConclusionQI projects when conducted successfully can be used to improve patient care, as well as reduce administrative burden on junior doctors. Our QI project is an example of how Kotter’s eight-step model for change can be applied to clinical practice.

scholarly journals DISIPLIN KERJA, KESEHATAN DAN KESELAMATAN KERJA BERPENGARUH TERHADAP PRODUKTIVITAS KERJA KARYAWAN SARIASIH GARMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 2107
Author(s):  
Briyan Artha Ginting ◽  
I Wayan Suana
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Work Productivity ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Safe Work ◽  
Work Health ◽  
Saturated Sample ◽  
Maximum Work ◽  
Sample Method

Productivity is the ability to achieve certain tasks in accordance with predetermined standards. Companies must create safe work environment to motivate employees so that they can increase overall company productivity. Purpose of the study is to explain the effect of work discipline, occupational health and safety on the work productivity of Sariasih Garment employees with 51 people as samples, using saturated sample method. Data collected through observation, interviews and questionnaires and analyzed by multiple linear regression. Based on the results, work discipline, occupational health and work safety have  positive and significant effect on employee work productivity. It is expected that company pays attention to employees' compliance with regulations in doing their jobs and the company is able to create a safe, comfortable and clean work environment. Employees have enthusiasm and protection while working so that employees are able to increase work productivity in order to create maximum work results. Keywords: work productivity, work discipline, work health and safety

scholarly journals Interoperability in Smart Manufacturing: Research Challenges

Machines ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abe Zeid ◽  
Sarvesh Sundaram ◽  
Mohsen Moghaddam ◽  
Sagar Kamarthi ◽  
Tucker Marion
Keyword(s):  
Data Exchange ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Smart Manufacturing ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Integrated Networks ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
Industrial Internet ◽  
Logical Semantics ◽  
And Control

Recent advances in manufacturing technology, such as cyber–physical systems, industrial Internet, AI (Artificial Intelligence), and machine learning have driven the evolution of manufacturing architectures into integrated networks of automation devices, services, and enterprises. One of the resulting challenges of this evolution is the increased need for interoperability at different levels of the manufacturing ecosystem. The scope ranges from shop–floor software, devices, and control systems to Internet-based cloud-platforms, providing various services on-demand. Successful implementation of interoperability in smart manufacturing would, thus, result in effective communication and error-prone data-exchange between machines, sensors, actuators, users, systems, and platforms. A significant challenge to this is the architecture and the platforms that are used by machines and software packages. A better understanding of the subject can be achieved by studying industry-specific communication protocols and their respective logical semantics. A review of research conducted in this area is provided in this article to gain perspective on the various dimensions and types of interoperability. This article provides a multi-faceted approach to the research area of interoperability by reviewing key concepts and existing research efforts in the domain, as well as by discussing challenges and solutions.

Asymptotic Behavior in Slumping From a Cylindrical Tank

1984 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Bai ◽  
W. Johnson ◽  
R. G. M. Low ◽  
S. K. Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Transition Period ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Hazardous Substance ◽  
Substance Flows ◽  
Linear Relationships ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
And Control ◽  
Future Work

When an oil tank collapses or ruptures any contained hazardous substance flows outwards and can damage nearby plant or people as well as lead to pollution of the local environment. In recent years, this and similar subjects have given rise to a new kind of engineering—spill prevention and control. However, theoretical background, backed by experiment, is lacking to work out reliable regulations. An intermediate-asymptotic analysis for late-stage spreading is carried out in this paper. This analysis reveals several characteristic features of the spill wave such as transition period and linear relationships between spreading area and time, and wave front velocity and the inverse of zone radius. Most of the latter results have been verified by model experiment. This paper also discusses the discrepancies between observations and the theory suggested in a recent UK Health and Safety Executive report. Finally, the present paper puts forward proper modeling rules for future work.

Product-Quality Based Scheduling of Automated Food Processing

2014 ◽  
Vol 1018 ◽  
pp. 563-570
Author(s):  
Marcel Wagner ◽  
Tim Schleimer ◽  
Tobias Seeberger ◽  
Gunther Reinhart
Keyword(s):  
Product Quality ◽  
Production Planning ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Classical Field ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Production Planning And Control ◽  
Optimization Criteria ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
And Control

Production Planning and Control (PPC) does not only play an important role in the classical field of production. Concerning a trend to more customer related products and a so called buyers market, also the not yet strongly automated businesses have to think about topics like PPC. By forming a new automated shop floor in a commercial kitchen for example, new optimization criteria in the PPC play a crucial role. Especially in the manner of scheduling jobs different constraints concerning the handled products come up. This paper demonstrates a possibility to extend the criteria of PPC with the subjective parameter of product quality. This approach allows influencing an oven-control to reach the best product quality in its processing.

META ANALYSIS METHOD OVERVIEW OF MODELS USED IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY TRAININGS

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (15) ◽  
pp. 482-490
Author(s):  
Filiz ARICAK ◽  
Evren ÇAĞLARER
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Training Models ◽  
Safety Procedures

In this study, an analysis of independent studies dealing with occupational safety training in different learning environments, in which various learning materials are used, was carried out. As a method, meta-analysis method was used. For this purpose, databases were used to collect national and international articles and papers suitable for the purpose of the study. Studies that did not mention the tools, equipment and environment used in education in the collected studies were excluded from the research, and 18 studies were included in the meta-analysis. The data obtained studies are categorized according to the education models, the sectors in which the education is applied and the characteristics of the participants in the education. As it is known, occupational health and safety procedures aim at a healthy and reliable working environment for its employees. However, the ultimate goal is to raise not only employees but also future generations with this awareness. The most important instrument of this is undoubtedly education. For this reason, it is necessary to develop training models suitable for the work environment, age, gender and every conceivable situation.

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