Occupational Health And Safety International Influences And The "new" Epidemics

Occupational Health and Safety: International Influences and the "New" Epidemics provides a theoretical and empirical approach to investigating the nature of emerging occupational health and safety epidemics across the industrialized world. Each chapter deals with exposure to a particular OHS hazard and examines the epidemic nature of the resulting ill-health or injury, and evaluates the contribution of globalization and neoliberal policies in creating workplace environments that foster new OHS epidemics. The authors are based in a variety of countries and bring a range of disciplinary perspectives to identifying these new OHS epidemics. The chapters span a wide range of OHS issues, including the interrelationships between precarious employment and poorer OHS, OHS problems associated with child and adolescent labor, the incidence and severity of occupational violence and bullying, the disease consequences of exposure to hazards with very long latency (e.g., mesothelioma), the effects of stress, and the role of best-practice models for prevention that can be adopted in dealing with the epidemics. Other specific issues include the OHS consequences of prolonged standing, the development and maintenance of return-to-work programs, and a research framework for investigating OHS epidemics. Finally, the authors develop models to explain the emergence of epidemics and how various business, government, and professional sectors handle them.Peterson, Chris is the author of 'Occupational Health And Safety International Influences And The "new" Epidemics', published 2005 under ISBN 9780895033031 and ISBN 0895033038.