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Volberg, Vitaly, Tiffani Fordyce, Megan Leonhard, Gabor Mezei, Ximena Vergara, and Lovely Krishen. "Injuries among electric power industry workers, 1995–2013." Journal of Safety Research 60 (February 2017): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2016.11.001.
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Sebok, Angelia, Rita Mann, Terence Andre, Anders Gronstedt, Kerri Chik, Ian Cooley, Dustin Shell, and Heather Anderson. "Augmented Reality Applications in Support of Electrical Utility Operations." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 64, no. 1 (December 2020): 1323–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181320641316.
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The electric utilities industry is facing a potential crisis. As experienced workers are preparing to retire, new employees are being hired to take their place. These new workers lack the training and experience of the retiring workforce. This paper describes the potential use of Augmented Reality (AR) to address the challenges posed by this loss of expertise. The research effort investigated opportunities to use AR to improve knowledge transfer in the electric utilities industry.
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Verwoert, Liesl. "Long-distance commuter workforce." APPEA Journal 53, no. 2 (2013): 467. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj12078.
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Australia’s resources industry has experienced record growth and a strong demand for labour during the past decade. Much of this demand is occurring in remote parts of Australia and is met by population growth of resident and non-resident long-distance-commuter (LDC) workers. LDC workers are defined as those who travel significant distances between where they usually live and work, and include fly-in/fly-out and drive-in/drive-out workers. While the LDC workforce is not new, the scale of this phenomenon and the shift in commuting patterns among this workforce to meet Australia’s evolving labour demands is unprecedented. KPMG have quantified the size and distribution of the LDC workforce by industry and region across Australia. This was part of a ground-breaking workforce mobility study commissioned by the Minerals Council of Australia (in conjunction with APPEA and Skills DMC). Findings from this study answer the following questions: To what extent has the size of the LDC workforce increased in the past five years up to 2011? How does the prevalence of long-distance commuting in the oil and gas industry compare with other industries? What are the top three resource regions that attract LDC workers and what do the commuter routes look like? This extended abstract contributes to our knowledge base about the geographic mobility of the Australian workforce. It reveals the LDC workforce facts and thereby helps guide industry and government policy to ensure the economic and social prosperity of Australia’s resource regions and their residents and workers.
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McKenna, Bernard. "Workers’ Capital: Industry Funds and the Fight for Universal Superannuation in Australia." Australian Journal of Politics & History 64, no. 1 (March 2018): 147–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12435.
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Ville, Simon. "Workers’ Capital: Industry Funds and the Fight for Universal Superannuation in Australia." Australian Historical Studies 48, no. 4 (October 2, 2017): 607–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2017.1380501.
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Williams, Claire. "Occupational Health and Safety in Australia." Australian Journal of Primary Health 5, no. 1 (1999): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py99010.
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The book is dedicated to the estimated 2900 Australian workers who die each year from work-related injuries and death. The authors do not accept the double standard which surrounds workplace-related deaths that somehow they are the legitimate cost of industry. These deaths tend to be glossed over in a way that does not occur in relation to any other deaths in the community.
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Kondratiev, V. B. "Australian Mining Industry: Positions and Perspectives." Mining Industry Journal (Gornay Promishlennost), no. 1/2022 (March 15, 2022): 91–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.30686/1609-9192-2022-1-91-102.
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Australia has a world-leading mining industry as a producer for some 16 commodities including gold, bauxite, iron ore, rare earths, zinc, nickel and coal. In 2021, Australia’s mineral exports (excluding petroleum products) amounted to $200 billion which was 58% of all good’s export and 46% of all exported goods and services. In 2021, mining accounted for more than 10% of gross national product. In addition, the mining industry employed some 240 000 people, with many more employed by related industries. Australia is richly endowed with many minerals, that are regarded as critical, or strategic, minerals by many trading partners. Growing markets for these commodities, particularly for those associated with emerging technologies such as battery storage, renewable energy and electric vehicles have stimulated exploration and resource delineation in Australia in recent years
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Thompson, Herb, and Julie Tracy. "Woodchipping and Conservation: A Case for Timber Workers." Economic and Labour Relations Review 6, no. 2 (December 1995): 180–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103530469500600202.
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This paper examines the predicament of timber workers in the woodchipping industry, with particular reference to Western Australia, but existent throughout Australia. Of distinctive interest is the conflictual situation, and on occasion violent confrontation, which has arisen between timber workers and conservationists. It is concluded that continuing conflict between timber workers and conservationists will, at best, simply displace the environmental problem of logging old-growth forests by the creation of another problem of inequitably distributed resources. Resolution of the conflict requires these two main players to achieve empathetic communication and a negotiated settlement - if, given their very different world views, it is feasible.
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Coombs, Carolyn. "The Sociological Implications of Voluntary Redundancy: The South Australian Experience." Australian Journal of Primary Health 4, no. 1 (1998): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py98003.
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The experience of voluntary redundancy on the current scale is fairly new in Australia and its impact on workers and society is only just beginning to be observed and interpreted. Under the economic rationalist policies of successive federal governments which promoted a free market economy driven by privatisation, deregulation and de-institutionalisation, Australia has undergone considerable structural change in the 1990s. This change has been marked by government-supported labour restructuring, within both the private and public sectors of industry. The purpose of the study was to explore the concept of voluntary redundancy, whether mature-aged workers were being targeted, and the sociological implications of voluntary redundancy for workers in South Australia.
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Kalnysh, Valentyn, Roksolana Stasyshyn, and Marianna Oliskevych. "Depletion of occupational performance effectiveness in electric power engineering industry: psychophysiological factors and risk evaluation." International Journal of Advances in Medicine 6, no. 2 (March 25, 2019): 502. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-3933.ijam20191166.
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Background: The modern society cause the increase of workload and impact of environment factors on performance efficiency of occupational duties and health safety of workers. Emergencies and expert mistakes often arise not so much from rules ignorance of object management, but due to insufficient development of worker’s own psychophysiological qualities. The goal of our investigation is to develop the estimation technique for evaluation the risk of depletion in efficiency performance of occupational duties for operative service workers in electric power engineering industry.Methods: In our investigation, we examined the materials of psychophysiological survey by the multivariate statistics, dispersion analysis and regression binary choice models. The study is based on workers’ survey, encompassed exogenous psychophysiological indicators that included the observation of 466 operative service workers of in electric power engineering industry in Ukraine.Results: We determined seven psychophysiological indicators that are significant important risk cause of critical depletion in worker’s occupational efficiency. We estimated the multivariate regression logit model that evaluate the impact of each factor taking into account the age of worker.Conclusions: For workers with high values of average reaction time, regardless of the age group, we predict a high risk of occupational effective performance loss. The analysis showed that for workers with average values of other factors, the increase of adaptability and variability lead to decrease in risk of occupational professional efficiency depletion. Based on developed approach, we estimated that, in electric power engineering industry in Ukraine, the risk of effectiveness loss is less than 0.5 for 84% of workers.
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Xiang, Jianjun, Murthy Mittinty, Michael Xiaoliang Tong, Dino Pisaniello, and Peng Bi. "Characterising the Burden of Work-Related Injuries in South Australia: A 15-Year Data Analysis." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 6 (March 18, 2020): 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17062015.
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To characterise the burden of work-related injuries in South Australia, workers’ compensation claim data were obtained from SafeWork South Australia between 2000 and 2014. Descriptive analyses were performed to investigate the burden of work-related injuries by age, gender, occupation, industry, and nature and mechanism of injury. Dunn’s test was used to compare the injury costs and working days lost by industry and occupation. Ordinary linear regression was used to investigate the age-injury cost association. A total of 464,139 workers’ compensation claims were reported during the 15-year period in South Australia, with an overall rate of 4.6 claims per 100 employees, resulting in a total of 20,861,001 working days lost and AU$14.9 billion dollars of compensation payment. Between 2000 to 2014, the annual claim rates, compensation payments, working days lost, and number of work-related death reduced by 59.3, 73.8, 87.1, and 78.6 percent, respectively, while the median compensation payment increased by 67.3% from AU$968 to AU$1620. A 1-year increase in age was associated with a 2.1% (Rate Ratio, RR = 1.021, 95% CI: 1.020–1.022) increase in compensation costs and a 1.3% (RR = 1.013, 95% CI: 1.012–1.020) increase in working days lost. Work-related injury rates are declining in most sectors, however some workers, especially young male technicians and labourers in the community services industry, remain at higher risk. Challenges for workers’ health and safety include the aging labour force, vehicle incidents, and severe injuries among new and foreign-born workers.
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Short, J. R. "Construction Workers and the City: 1. Analysis." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 20, no. 6 (June 1988): 719–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a200719.
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The aim in this paper is to highlight the importance of construction workers in the making of the built environment. After a discussion about the general nature of capital—labour relations in the construction industry, an example is taken of the recent history of the Builders' Labourers Federation of New South Wales, Australia. The impact of the union during the Sydney property boom of the 1970s is examined.
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Seib, Charrlotte, Jane Fischer, and Jackob M. Najman. "The health of female sex workers from three industry sectors in Queensland, Australia." Social Science & Medicine 68, no. 3 (February 2009): 473–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.10.024.
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Martínez, Julia. "The End of Indenture? Asian workers in the Australian Pearling Industry, 1901–1972." International Labor and Working-Class History 67 (April 2005): 125–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547905000116.
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The historical circumstances which led to the end of the indentured labor trade suggest that its abolition was only partially the result of humanitarian concern for the welfare of workers. It was the development of nationalism, both in sending and receiving countries, that prompted a rethinking of the racialized labor organization of indenture. In Australia, the introduction of the White Australia policy in 1901, with its restrictions on non-white immigration and employment, is usually thought to coincide with the abolition of the indentured labor trade. But the Australian pearl-shelling industry continued to employ indentured Asian workers up until the 1970s. This case study extends the historical analysis of indenture well beyond its supposed international abolition. In doing so, it demonstrates a degree of continuity of colonial thought and practice which persisted in the face of global decolonization.
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Affeldt, Stefanie. "The Burden of ‘White’ Sugar: Producing and Consuming Whiteness in Australia." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 52, no. 4 (December 20, 2017): 439–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2017-0020.
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Abstract This article investigates the history of the Queensland cane sugar industry and its cultural and political relations. It explores the way the sugar industry was transformed from an enterprise drawing on the traditional plantation crop cultivated by an unfree labour force and employing workers into an industry that was an important, symbolical element of ‘White Australia’ that was firmly grounded in the cultural, political, nationalist, and racist reasoning of the day. The demographic and social changes drew their incitement and legitimation from the ‘White Australia’ culture that was represented in all social strata. Australia was geographically remote but culturally close to the mother country and was assigned a special position as a lone outpost of Western culture. This was aggravated by scenarios of allegedly imminent invasions by the surrounding Asian powers, which further urged cane sugar’s transformation from a ‘black’ to a ‘white man’s industry’. As a result, during the sugar strikes of the early 20th century, the white Australian sugar workers were able to emphasize their ‘whiteness’ to press for improvements in wages and working conditions. Despite being a matter of constant discussion, the public acceptance of the ‘white sugar campaign’ was reflected by the high consumption of sugar. Moreover, the industry was lauded for its global uniqueness and its significance to the Australian nation. Eventually, the ‘burden’ of ‘white sugar’ was a monetary, but even more so moral support of an industry that was supposed to provide a solution to population politics, support the national defence, and symbolize the technological advancement and durability of the ‘white race’ in a time of crisis.
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Hosseini, M. Reza, Nicholas Chileshe, and George Zillante. "Investigating the Factors Associated with Job Satisfaction of Construction Workers in South Australia." Construction Economics and Building 14, no. 3 (September 13, 2014): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v14i3.4154.
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The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, its aim is to ascertain the major aspects of job satisfaction for South Australian construction workers including the main ramifications of job satisfaction in the working environment. Secondly, it investigates the influence of key age-related factors i.e. chronological age, organisational age and length of service on major aspects of job satisfaction. The collected data for this study comprised 72 questionnaires completed by construction practitioners working at operational levels in the South Australian construction industry. Based on the responses from the target group, this study deduced that job dissatisfaction was predominantly related to the adverse impact on personal health and quality of life. In addition, indifference and the perception of dejection in the workplace are the main consequences of low levels of job satisfaction. Inferential analyses revealed that none of the age-related factors could significantly affect the major aspects of job satisfaction of construction workers in the South Australian context. The study concludes with providing practical suggestions for redesigning human resources practices for increasing the level of job satisfaction within the South Australian construction industry.Keywords: Job satisfaction, workers, age, construction industry, South Australia
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Ham, Julie, and Fairleigh Gilmour. "‘We all have one’: exit plans as a professional strategy in sex work." Work, Employment and Society 31, no. 5 (September 1, 2016): 748–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017016666198.
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The idea of ‘exiting’ the sex industry plays a powerful symbolic role in the feminist debates around the morality, legitimacy and regulation of sex work. Drawing on interviews with 39 women sex workers in Australia and Canada, we explore three key contrasts between dominant narratives and interventions that frame ‘exiting’ as escape from trauma or exploitation, and sex workers’ assessments of ‘exiting’ as a personal or professional strategy. First, we explore sex workers’ perceptions of sex work as temporary work. Second, we analyse the symbiosis between exit plans and current work practices. Third, we examine workers’ assessment of the value of ‘exiting’ sex work in the context of changing market forces within the sex industry, the ‘square’ labour market (or non-sex work sectors) and exiting interventions (i.e. programmes to assist workers in leaving sex work).
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Bennett, Laura. "Women, Exploitation and the Australian Child-Care Industry: Breaking the Vicious Circle." Journal of Industrial Relations 33, no. 1 (March 1991): 20–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218569103300102.
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In Australia in the 1990s, a complex combination of industrial and political factors interact with gender to produce the exploitation of child-care workers. Examination of the industry reveals the crucial role that government funding and policy play in determining working conditions. Analysis of the child-care industry also highlights the extent to which conditions in the industry are determined by a complex regulatory apparatus comprising legislation, regulations and departmental guidelines specific to the industry in addition to awards. Concentration on the characteristics of a distinctly female dominated industry reveals some of the limitations of mainstream industrial relations theory. It is clear that neither industrial relations nor feminism has yet provided the theoretical tools necessary not simply to explain the exploitation of women workers in such industries but also to overcome it.
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Asare, Bernard Yeboah-Asiamah, Elizabeth Thomas, Jacquita S. Affandi, Myles Schammer, Paul Brown, Matthew Pilbeam, Chris Harris, et al. "Mental Well-Being during COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study of Fly-In Fly-Out Workers in the Mining Industry in Australia." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 22 (November 22, 2021): 12264. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212264.
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has devastated the world, and its mental health impact has been recognized in the general population. However, little is known about the mental health impact of COVID-19 on fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers, who are flown to temporarily stay and work in remote areas, during this pandemic. This study examined the mental well-being of FIFO workers in the mining industry during COVID-19 restrictions in Western Australia. An online survey was conducted between May to November 2020 among (N = 842) FIFO workers who underwent COVID-19 screening at a large mining company in Western Australia. The mental well-being score among workers was higher than population norms. One-way ANOVA with Bonferroni post-hoc tests showed significant differences in mental well-being by age, being placed under travel quarantine, undertaking self-isolation, impact of social distance guidelines, and experience of COVID-19 related symptoms. Multiple linear regression analysis showed workers who were younger, placed under travel quarantine and experienced two or more COVID-19 related symptoms were more likely to have worse mental well-being. Acknowledging the negative emotions and distress experiences among the vulnerable groups could help in providing suitable support to help lessen these negative experiences in FIFO workers.
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Velazquez, Luis, Nora Munguia, Andrea Zavala, Javier Esquer, Markus Will, and Bernd Delakowitz. "Cleaner production and pollution prevention at the electronic and electric Mexican maquiladora." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 25, no. 5 (August 5, 2014): 600–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/meq-02-2013-0011.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the deepening understanding of the diverging pollution prevention (PP) and occupational and safety practices undertaken in the Mexican maquiladora industry. Design/methodology/approach – This study was outlined by a modified version of the PP Program based on a continuous improvement cycle, which identifies areas of opportunity and then, proposes ideas for solving problems. This study was carried out based merely on a quantitative approach. However, when this was not possible, parameters were determined under a qualitative or semi-quantitative approach. Findings – Findings in this study have proven that Cleaner Production and Pollution Prevention (CP&PP) programs are successful to obtain not only environmental but also occupational benefits at the same time; therefore, they should not be seem only as an environmental tool but as a sustainability tool that have the potential to make possible the creation of a sustainable production system in the maquiladora industry where products and processes, and operations are designed to be not risky for Mexican workers, communities, and environment. Practical implications – The study revealed empirical environmental and occupational practices that took place in nine maquiladoras located in the Northwest of Mexico and analyzes how these practices affect Mexican workers in this industry and their environment. Originality/value – The study evaluated the feasibility and usefulness of CP&PP programs in the maquiladora industry under an integrative approach that takes into account environmental and occupational aspect in order to understand how this industry is changing their production patterns toward sustainability.
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Thébaud-Mony, Annie. "Principles of Efficiency and Occupational Health: The Case of the Nuclear Industry." NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 9, no. 4 (February 2000): 389–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/vkjl-4300-u68f-xw7v.
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Reducing risks in the nuclear industry necessarily exposes maintenance workers to ionizing radiation. In the early 1980s, the French industry started outsourcing certain work operations, including nearly all maintenance. The goal was seen as one of reducing costs. But an important result is a shift in the category of workers receiving radiation doses. External workers receive 80 percent of annual collective doses recorded at nuclear sites, with average individual monthly dosages in an irradiated area eleven to fifteen times more elevated than those of workers in the French electric company. Nuclear producers strictly observe regulatory exposure limits by managing jobs by doses and externalizing the problem. An employee who reaches the dosage limit is banned from the plant. Qualified permanent employees do not do the work that is most costly in dosage. Outsourcing the risky work prevents challenges from unions and public officials, and firms can claim that radiation exposures are controlled and do not endanger workers' health. The problem, a terrible contradiction at the heart of the industry, has been socially constructed to be invisible.
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Annakis, John, Tony Lobo, and Soma Pillay. "Exploring predictors of job satisfaction in call centres – The case of Australia." Corporate Ownership and Control 8, no. 3 (2011): 376–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv8i3c3p3.
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In this paper we examine predictors of job satisfaction within the call centre industry. Using a qualitative methodology, we investigate the nature and extent of job satisfaction of customer service representatives in two large Australian call centres. The findings from the study confirm that monitoring, personal privacy and flexibility correlate to workers’ wellbeing and job satisfaction
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Korenevskiy, N. A., R. I. Safronov, L. V. Shulga, G. V. Siplivy, and E. V. Krikunova. "An Expert System for Predicting and Diagnosing Occupational Diseases of Electric Power Industry Workers." Biomedical Engineering 55, no. 6 (March 2022): 437–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10527-022-10154-x.
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Maheen, Humaira, Stefanie Dimov, Matthew J. Spittal, and Tania L. King. "Suicide in welfare support workers: a retrospective mortality study in Australia 2001–2016." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 78, no. 5 (February 11, 2021): 336–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2020-106757.
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ObjectivesEmployees working in the welfare and healthcare industry have poorer mental health than other occupational groups; however, there has been little examination of suicide among this group. In this study, we examined suicide rates among welfare support workers and compared them to other occupations in Australia.MethodsWe used data from the National Coroners Information System to obtain suicide deaths between the years 2001 and 2016. Using the Australian standard population from 2001 and Census data from 2006, 2011 and 2016, we calculated age-standardised suicide rates and rate ratios to compare suicide rates across different occupational groups.ResultsOverall, the age-standardised suicide rate of welfare support workers was 8.6 per 100 000 people. The gender-stratified results show that male welfare support workers have a high suicide rate (23.8 per 100 000 people) which is similar to male social workers and nurses (25.4 per 100 000). After adjusting for age and year of death, both males (rate ratio 1.48, 95% CI 1.23 to 1.78) and female welfare support workers (rate ratio 1.49, 95% CI 1.20 to 1.86) have higher suicide rate ratios compared with the reference group (excluding occupations from the comparison groups).ConclusionThe age-standardised suicide rates of male welfare support workers are comparable to occupations which have been identified as high-risk occupations for suicide. Both female and male welfare support workers are at elevated risk of suicide compared with other occupations. Further research is required to understand the drivers of the elevated risk in this group.
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Lambert, Rob, and Edward Webster. "Searching for Security: Case Studies of the Impact of Work Restructuring on Households in South Korea, South Africa and Australia." Journal of Industrial Relations 52, no. 5 (November 2010): 595–611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022185610381672.
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The reconfiguration of the employment relationship — through the growing intensification, informalization and casualization of work, downsizing and retrenchments — impacts directly on workers’ households and the communities within which they are embedded. To understand these responses, we need to rethink the way we study the changing employment relationship. Employment relations should not only analyse the workplace: we need to research workers in the totality of their lives. To comprehend these processes we surveyed and interviewed workers in the workplace and in their households and communities. Through following workers into their homes and communities in South Africa, Australia and South Korea, the differential impact of the global restructuring of one industry, the white goods industry, on the non-working life of working people emerged. Two types of responses were identified: on the one hand, a retreat from, or an adaptation to, rapid market liberalization; on the other, mobilization to challenge the market. All three research sites evidenced innovative attempts at the local level to search for security. However, these responses lacked an overall vision of alternative possibilities to the realities of the free market paradigm of globalization.
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Hammond, M., and D. C. Sanders. "MAXIMISING INDIGENOUS EMPLOYMENT IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA." APPEA Journal 46, no. 1 (2006): 595. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj05040.
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The skilled labour shortage facing the upstream oil and gas industry is encouraging companies who have already begun to examine ways of increasing the number of indigenous people in their workforce.It is common practice for companies to use fly-in flyout solutions to build a stable workforce in remote areas. While this suits many workers and operations, a simpler solution arguably would be to have a skilled workforce who works in their home region. Many resource companies are now placing a renewed emphasis on training indigenous people to take on roles in the oil and gas industry. A highly skilled local workforce will have benefits for industry with a reduction in logistical costs and an increase in retention rates.This paper describes the challenges facing companies which elect to develop those skills in a largely technically unskilled indigenous community. The paper uses a range of case studies drawn from company experience. It further showcases some success stories and describes where the industry might need to focus its efforts in order to achieve a more equitable training and employment outcome for Australia’s indigenous communities.
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Asare, Bernard Yeboah-Asiamah, Marshall Makate, Daniel Powell, Dominika Kwasnicka, and Suzanne Robinson. "Cost of Health-Related Work Productivity Loss among Fly-In Fly-Out Mining Workers in Australia." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 16 (August 15, 2022): 10056. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610056.
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Sufficient knowledge on the work productivity impact of the health of fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers in the mining sector in Australia is lacking. This study examined the impact of health and lifestyle behaviours on the work productivity of FIFO workers in the mining industry in Australia. FIFO workers completed an online questionnaire on health and work productivity loss measures. Linear regressions were used to model annual work productivity losses through absenteeism, presenteeism and total productivity loss. Workers with a high risk for health conditions were, on average, associated with 3.87% more productivity loss (absenteeism: 1.27% and presenteeism: 2.88%) than those with low risk. Workers who had multiple health risks classified as medium (3–4 health conditions) and high (5 or more health conditions) reported 1.75% and 7.46% more total productivity loss, respectively, than those with fewer multiple health risks (0–2 health conditions). Health conditions were estimated to account for an annual additional productivity cost due to absenteeism of AUD 8.82 million, presenteeism of AUD 14.08 million and a total productivity loss of AUD 20.96 million per 1000 workers. FIFO workers with high health risks experience more absenteeism, presenteeism and overall productivity loss. These measures provide strong economic justifications that could support the need for targeted workplace health interventions.
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Seltzer, Andrew J. "Implicit contracts and acquisitions: An econometric case study of the 19th century Australian banking industry." German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung 31, no. 2 (January 6, 2017): 185–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2397002216682463.
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It has been argued that hostile takeovers redistribute wealth from workers to shareholders by enabling the acquiring firm to revoke implicit contracts. This paper uses micro-data from personnel records to examine the consequences of the Union Bank of Australia’s 1892 takeover of the Bank of South Australia. The evidence confirms that the lifetime earnings of older workers at the BSA declined because of the merger. They faced a high probability of losing their jobs immediately following the merger, lost specific human capital due to the closure of branches, faced a flatter salary profile over the remainder of their career, and received a reduced pension.
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Maher, JaneMaree, Sharon Pickering, and Alison Gerard. "Privileging Work Not Sex: Flexibility and Employment in the Sexual Services Industry." Sociological Review 60, no. 4 (November 2012): 654–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.2012.02128.x.
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We present findings from a study of sex workers recruited in indoor licensed premises in Victoria. While the study addressed regulation, enforcement and working conditions, we focus on the value of flexible well-paid work for two particular groups of female workers (parents and students). We link this issue of flexibility to broader gendered employment conditions in Australia, arguing the lack of comparable employment is crucial to understanding worker decisions about sex work. Debates and regulation focus on gendered inequalities related to heterosexuality much more than they recognize gendered inequalities related to labour market conditions. The focus on criminalization, harm, exploitation and stigma obscures the centrality of work flexibility and conditions to women's decision-making. A more direct focus on the broader employment context may produce better recognition of why women do sex work.
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Enya, Andrew, Shane Dempsey, and Manikam Pillay. "A Study Investigating How the Characteristics of High Reliability Organisations Can Be Measured in the Construction Industry in Australia." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 21 (November 9, 2020): 8273. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218273.
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Construction activities involve a lot of risk as workers are exposed to a wide range of job hazards, such as working at height, moving vehicles, toxic substances, and confined spaces. The hazards related to a construction project are mostly unpredictable because construction projects move quickly due to project deadlines, and changing work environments. As a result of this, the industry accounts for one of the highest numbers of work-related claims, and the fourth highest incidence rate of serious claims in Australia. This research investigates how key safety management factors can measure the characteristics of high reliability organisations (HROs) in the construction industry in New South Wales Australia. To address the problem, a model is presented that can predict characteristics of HRO in construction (CHC). Using structural equation modeling (SEM), and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), the model and measurement instruments are tested and validated from data collected from construction workers. The results identified the factors that effectively measure CHC, and the findings can also be used as a safety management strategy and will contribute to the body of knowledge in research.
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O’Neill, Shirley, and Anikó Hatoss. "Harnessing a Nation’s linguistic competence." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 26, no. 2 (January 1, 2003): 31–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.26.2.03one.
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This paper reports the findings of a research project aimed to (a) identify the foreign language and cross-cultural skill needs of workers in the tourism and hospitality industry in Australia, and to (b) develop foreign language competencies for use in industry training packages. A representative sample of work sites was visited to develop a detailed profile of the language and cross-cultural skills/levels and job requirements. The resulting competency standards were subsequently included in the industry training packages (Tourism Training Australia, 2002). This paper gives empirical evidence for the need for foreign language skills in the industry and gives account of the methodology used for identifying these needs and translating them into foreign language competencies. The outcomes of this research, the competency standards, bear twofold significance. On the one hand, they provide a tool for recognising the existing linguistic and cultural skills of those Australians who work in the industry (these are mainly Australians from non-English speaking background, NESB), on the other hand they provide a tool for motivating foreign language learning by those who seek a career in the industry, by giving recognition for their foreign language skills as part of the wider training program. This research was commissioned by Tourism Training Australia, Sydney and funded by the Department of Industry, Science & Resources.
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Carrington, Kerry, Russell Hogg, and Alison McIntosh. "The resource boom's underbelly: Criminological impacts of mining development." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 44, no. 3 (December 2011): 335–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865811419068.
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Australia is currently in the midst of a major resources boom. Resultant growing demands for labour in regional and remote areas have accelerated the recruitment of non-resident workers, mostly contractors, who work extended block rosters of 12-hour shifts and are accommodated in work camps, often adjacent to established mining towns. Serious social impacts of these practices, including violence and crime, have generally escaped industry, government and academic scrutiny. This paper highlights some of these impacts on affected regional communities and workers and argues that post-industrial mining regimes serve to mask and privatize these harms and risks, shifting them on to workers, families and communities.
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Seib, Charrlotte, Joseph Debattista, Jane Fischer, Michael Dunne, and Jackob M. Najman. "Sexually transmissible infections among sex workers and their clients: variation in prevalence between sectors of the industry." Sexual Health 6, no. 1 (2009): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh08038.
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Objectives: The risk of sexually transmissible infection (STI) among sex workers and their clients may be higher than the general population. However, many studies have categorised workers or clients into homogenous groups for the purposes of analysis. The aim of the present study was to assess variations in self-reported STI rates among licenced brothel, private and illegal sex workers and their clients. Methods: In 2003, self-report data were collected from female sex workers and their male commercial clients residing in the state of Queensland, Australia. Overall, 247 sex workers (aged 19–57 years) and 185 of their respective clients (aged between 19 and 72 years) completed anonymous questionnaires. Results: There was little variation in self-reported lifetime STI prevalence of licenced brothel, private and illegal (predominantly street-based) sex workers, although licenced brothel workers were less likely to report ever being diagnosed with gonorrhoea or pubic lice in the past (P = 0.035 and 0.004 respectively). In contrast, clients accessing illegal services reported higher lifetime STI (36.0%, 95% confidence interval (CI) 20.2–55.6) than men recruited through private sex workers (20.0%, 95% CI 11.4–32.5) and clients from licenced brothels (7.6%, 95% CI 3.7–14.5). Conclusions: This study found high self-reported lifetime prevalence of infection among sex workers and their clients. It is notable, however, that lower STI rates were reported by clients and sex workers from licenced brothels. This would suggest that risk of infection is not equivalent across industry sectors and highlights some of the inherent risks associated with generalisation across the sex industry.
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Мarchyshyna, Y. I., М. S. Gruntkovskyi, V. M. Poliakovskyi, and V. M. Mykhalska. "The working conditions and analysis of occupational hazards in workers of poultry industry." Sučasne ptahìvnictvo, no. 1-2 (April 15, 2021): 24–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31548/poultry2021.01-02.024.
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It is noted that there are many serious risks to the safety and health of workers at poultry farms in Ukraine. These hazards include exposure to high levels of noise, dust, hazardous equipment, slippery floors, musculoskeletal disorders, hazardous chemicals and biological hazards. Studies show that prolonged exposure to high noise levels leads to noise hearing loss in workers of all ages. When performing work on catching, transplanting, transporting poultry, taking blood for chemical and serological tests, the noise level in the poultry house reaches 8690 dB. It is noted that during the repair and maintenance of machinery and equipment there is a risk of injury due to heat, electric shock, burns, cuts, tears, amputation or fractures of body parts. Poultry workers are the most vulnerable occupational group in terms of the risk of developing respiratory diseases. It has been established that 8-hour inhalation of dust in a concentration exceeding 4 mg/m3 is especially dangerous. The highest level of respiratory diseases was in 45-55-year-old workers. It is noted that poultry workers are exposed to ergonomic risks, which can cause injuries to the musculoskeletal system. The researchers found that 81% of poultry processing jobs have an increased level of repetitive hand movements and exertion. Workers complained of pain, numbness, burning, tingling in the hands or wrists. It is noted that new technologies will be able to reduce some types of ergonomic injuries. A significant danger for poultry workers is the risk of catching avian influenza. It is noted that workers have the right to healthy and safe working conditions, the development of special programs to protect them from industrial hazards. To protect workers, it is necessary to implement engineering and control measures and provide appropriate personal protective equipment.
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Liu, Q. J., Y. B. Feng, K. London, and P. Zhang. "Stressors in the multicultural construction working environment." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1101, no. 4 (November 1, 2022): 042010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/4/042010.
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Abstract Due to the dynamic and complex nature of the construction industry, construction workers are often exposed to a range of stressors which are causative factors for mental health problems. Simultaneously, intercultural contact between workers in a multicultural working environment may aggravate mental health issues. A better understanding of stressors can contribute to the development of targeted measures for mental health prevention and promotion. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the correlation between stressors and mental health for construction workers in a culturally diverse working environment. Data were collected using questionnaires from 252 construction workers in Australia. The Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyse the collected data. The results revealed the significant correlations between stressors and mental health outcomes and indicated the most significant stressors from work, personal and cultural domains. The findings provide valuable insights for practitioners and policymakers on the development of mental health interventions for construction workforce in a multicultural context. Researchers could also benefit from an in-depth comprehension on the causative factors of psychological issues in the construction industry.
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Macioti, P. G., Eurydice Aroney, Calum Bennachie, Anne E. Fehrenbacher, Calogero Giametta, Heidi Hoefinger, Nicola Mai, and Jennifer Musto. "Framing the Mother Tac: The Racialised, Sexualised and Gendered Politics of Modern Slavery in Australia." Social Sciences 9, no. 11 (October 28, 2020): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci9110192.
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Centred on the slavery trial “Crown vs. Rungnapha Kanbut” heard in Sydney, New South Wales, between 10 April and 15 May 2019, this article seeks to frame the figure of the “Mother Tac” or the “mother of contract”, also called “mama tac” or “mae tac”—a term used amongst Thai migrants to describe a woman who hosts, collects debts from, and organises work for Thai migrant sex workers in their destination country. It proposes that this largely unexplored figure has come to assume a disproportionate role in the “modern slavery” approach to human trafficking, with its emphasis on absolute victims and individual offenders. The harms suffered by Kanbut’s victims are put into context by referring to existing literature on women accused of trafficking; interviews with Thai migrant sex workers, including Kanbut’s primary victim, and with members from the Australian Federal Police Human Trafficking Unit; and ethnographic field notes. The article unveils how constructions of both victim and offender, as well as definitions of slavery, are racialised, gendered, and sexualised and rely on the victims’ subjective accounts of bounded exploitation. By documenting these and other limitations involved in a criminal justice approach, the authors reveal its shortfalls. For instance, while harsh sentences are meant as a deterrence to others, the complex and structural roots of migrant labour exploitation remain unaffected. This research finds that improved legal migration pathways, the decriminalisation of the sex industry, and improved access to information and support for migrant sex workers are key to reducing heavier forms of labour exploitation, including human trafficking, in the Australian sex industry.
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Howe, John, and Sara Charlesworth. "The Enforcement of Employment Standards in Australia: Successes and Challenges in Aged Care." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 34, Issue 2 (May 1, 2018): 111–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2018005.
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The enforcement of minimum labour standards in Australia has undergone a significant transformation over the last decade with the Fair Work Ombudsman’s (FWO’s) adoption of a ‘strategic’ enforcement model. Nevertheless, there are areas of the labour market where both employment standards and their enforcement are inadequate, particularly for precarious or vulnerable workers. This paper explores the challenges to effective employment standard enforcement in aged care, a gendered industry characterized by restricted government funding, low wages, non-standard employment and low unionization. There has been some limited enforcement activity by both unions and the FWO, mainly in residential aged care. However, the gendered nature of the work in an industry in which the government is in effect the lead organization coupled with the invisibility of home-based aged care present significant enforcement challenges.
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Newman, Freya, and Elizabeth Humphrys. "Construction Workers in a Climate Precarious World." Critical Sociology 46, no. 4-5 (November 13, 2019): 557–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920519880951.
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This paper examines climatic heat stress as a question of workplace health and safety in relation to at-risk and precarious labour. First, we argue that precarity is usefully understood as a phenomenon that is both generalised (all work is precarious given the function of labour under capitalism) and differentiated (experienced differently across geography, labour process and employment status). We frame climate change and labour relations as internally related and argue that climate change needs to be incorporated into the notion of precarity. Second, we explore the experience of construction workers in New South Wales, Australia, and consider the industry as a potential site of organising over both labour conditions and global warming. We conclude that climate change exacerbates precariousness, disrupting all work and intensifying and extending individual risk in various ways. Further, these experiences present a potential site to simultaneously act on both global warming and labour conditions.
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Jeremijenko, Andrew. "Viral mutations, vaccine effectiveness and rapid tests – COVID-19 risk management in the two largest LNG producing countries, Qatar and Australia." APPEA Journal 62, no. 2 (May 13, 2022): S291—S294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj21059.
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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic created challenges for the oil and gas industry. Qatar experienced three significant waves during the pandemic that disproportionately affected the workers in shared accommodation. In Australia, the public health measures limited the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the industry until the Omicron wave. Anti-SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity was assessed in five oil and gas subcontractors and five hospital subcontractors in Qatar between 21 June and 9 September 2020. Vaccine effectiveness was assessed in Qatar. Vaccine effectiveness in an LNG tanker crew off Gladstone was calculated. The initial study in Qatar included 4970 craft manual workers (CMWs) who were mostly men (95.0%). Infection positivity (antibody and/or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive) ranged from 62.5% (95% CI: 58.3–66.7%) to 83.8% (95% CI: 79.1–87.7%). Only five infections were severe and one was critical – an infection severity rate of 0.2% (95% CI: 0.1–0.4%). Rapid antibody tests (RATs) were effective in diagnosis of the SARS-CoV-2 virus infections. Vaccine effectiveness against severe, critical or fatal infections were above 90% in both the Qatar and Australian studies, but protection against infection waned significantly after 6 months. In Qatar and Australia, the industry implemented effective control measures including the use of RATs, PCR tests, test, trace, isolation, quarantine (TTIQ) and vaccination. In both countries, the LNG industry collaborated with public health experts and other experts and was involved in research to assess and manage the risk of COVID-19. Production of LNG was not affected. Participation in public health research in both countries contributed to important scientific publications and protected the industry. COVID-19 may become endemic.
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Shnukal, Anna. "A Failed Experiment: Okinawan Indents and the Postwar Torres Strait Pearlshelling Industry, 1958–1963." International Labor and Working-Class History 99 (2021): 122–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547920000307.
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AbstractThroughout its European history, Australia has solved recurrent labor shortages by importing workers from overseas. Situated on shipping lanes between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the northern Australian pearlshelling industry became a significant locus of second-wave transnational labor flows (1870–1940) and by the 1880s was dependent on indentured workers from the Pacific and Southeast Asia. Exempted from the racially discriminatory Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, indentured Asian seamen, principally Japanese, maintained the industry until the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941. The Torres Strait pearlshelling industry, centered on Thursday Island in Far North Queensland, resumed in 1946 amid general agreement that the Japanese must not return. Nevertheless, in 1958, 162 Okinawan pearling indents arrived on Thursday Island in a controversial attempt to restore the industry's declining fortunes. This article is intended as a contribution to the history of transnational labor movements. It consults a range of sources to document this “Okinawan experiment,” the last large-scale importation of indentured Asian labor into Australia. It examines Australian Commonwealth-state tensions in formulating and adopting national labor policy; disputes among Queensland policy makers; the social characteristics of the Okinawan cohort; and local Indigenous reactions. Also discussed are the economics of labor in the final years of the Torres Strait pearling industry. This study thus extends our knowledge of transnational labor movements and the intersection of early postwar Australian-Asian relations with Queensland Indigenous labor policy. It also foreshadows contemporary Indigenous demands for control of local marine resources.
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Filimonov, Egor S., Olga Yu Korotenko, Evgeniya V. Ulanova, and Natalia V. Tapeshkina. "Risk factors in the development of cardiovascular diseases in the coal industry workers." Hygiene and sanitation 101, no. 7 (July 31, 2022): 770–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.47470/0016-9900-2022-101-7-770-775.
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Introduction. Obesity and cardiovascular diseases are closely related and have a high prevalence in the global population. Workers of coal mining enterprises have an increased risk of developing these pathological conditions due to working conditions and employment schedules. Social and household factors and an unhealthy lifestyle can have a negative impact on metabolic processes that lead to obesity. In this regard, the search for risk factors for these diseases and the elaboration of a prevention system based on them to preserve the health of working groups of the population are relevant. Materials and methods. The study involved three hundred eighty-five workers of coal enterprises in the South of Kuzbass including 244 miners and 141 coal pit workers. The mean age was 46.35±0.34 and 46.98±0.36 years, respectively, p=0.231. The social and household aspects and lifestyle of the workers were revealed by the questionnaire method. Ultrasound investigation of vessels was performed on the General Electric Vivid E9 system. Results. The prevalence of atherosclerosis in obese workers employed in coal pits was higher than in persons with normal weight: 58.8% vs. 40.0%, p=0.035; no such pattern was found among miners. In coal pit workers with arterial hypertension, abdominal obesity was detected in 90.9% of the cases and in 67.0% (p=0.0004) in underground miners. The studied social and household factors, except for hypodynamia, had no a significant impact on the development of obesity. Limitations. The investigation did not include individuals with proven familial hypercholesterolemia, inflammatory vascular diseases and diabetes mellitus. Conclusion. Constitutional obesity increased the atherosclerosis risk in coal pit workers and did not affect on its prevalence in underground miners. Abdominal obesity did not contribute to an increase in the prevalence of atherosclerosis among the examined subjects, but increased the risk of arterial hypertension. Among the studied social and household factors, a significant role in the development of constitutional obesity in coal pit workers is rendered by hypodynamia during non-working hours.
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Richards, Harriette. "Risk, Reporting and Responsibility: Modern Slavery, Colonial Power and Fashion’s Transparency Industry." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 11, no. 2 (June 3, 2022): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.2378.
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This article investigates the role of the Australian Modern Slavery Act 2018 as a reporting mechanism aimed at preventing the use of forced labour in global supply chains. In the fashion industry, modern slavery legislation pursues the ambitions of activist movements that have long campaigned for increased knowledge about supply chain practices to improve the labour conditions of garment workers, especially for those in the Global South. In recent years, such campaigns against the entrenched opacity of the global fashion system have given rise to a transparency industry built on practices of auditing and supply chain management, including in relation to modern slavery legislation. This article analyses 10 modern slavery statements submitted to the online Modern Slavery Register by fashion brands operating in Australia in the 2019–2020 reporting period to explore how the Modern Slavery Act 2018 participates in colonial relations of power. It focuses on three aspects of the statements: factory reporting and third-party auditing, corporate grievance mechanisms, and risks associated with COVID-19. Finally, the article argues that while improved transparency can generate positive outcomes for workers, the reporting required by modern slavery legislation is often more concerned with providing assurances about labour standards to consumers and stakeholders in the Global North than with the needs or experiences of workers in the Global South.
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Detsimas, Nicole, Vaughan Coffey, Zabihullah Sadiqi, and Mei Li. "Workplace training and generic and technical skill development in the Australian construction industry." Journal of Management Development 35, no. 4 (May 9, 2016): 486–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmd-05-2015-0073.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current skills gap in both generic and skill areas within the construction industry in Queensland, Australia. Design/methodology/approach – An internet-based survey was administered to collect the opinions of construction employees about the workplace-training environment and their perceptions towards training. The survey intended to address the following research questions, specifically in relation to the construction industry. Findings – The survey results reveal that whilst overall participation in workplace training is high, the current workplace training environments do not foster balanced skill development. The study reveals that in the current absence of a formal and well-balanced training mechanism, construction workers generally resort to their own informal self-development initiatives to develop the needed role-specific theoretical knowledge. Research limitations/implications – The findings of the research are based on the data primarily collected in the construction industry in Queensland, Australia. The data are limited to a single Tier 2 construction company. Practical implications – The findings of this study can be utilised to suggest improvements in the current (or develop new) workplace training initiatives. Social implications – The research suggests that workplace training has positive relationship with career growth. The results suggest that in the construction industry, employees are generally well aware of the importance of workplace training in their career development and they largely appreciate training as being a critical factor for developing their capacity to perform their roles successfully, and to maintain their employability. Originality/value – This paper is unique as it investigates the current skills gap in both generic and skill areas within the construction industry in Queensland, Australia. So far no work has been undertaken to identify and discusses the main method of workplace learning within the Tier 2 industry in the context of Queensland Australia.
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Patmore, Greg. "Bernard Mees and Cathy Brigden, Workers’ Capital: Industry Funds and the Fight for Universal Superannuation in Australia." Journal of Industrial Relations 59, no. 5 (October 31, 2017): 680–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022185617725483.
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Lu, Dan, Changqing Xu, Chuanmin Mi, Yijing Wang, Xiangmin Xu, and Chufan Zhao. "Establishment of a Key Hidden Danger Factor System for Electric Power Personal Casualty Accidents Based on Text Mining." Information 12, no. 6 (June 10, 2021): 243. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info12060243.
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Based on actual safety management difficulties and needs, this paper aims to screen and extract the key accident potential factors of personal injuries and deaths within the electric power industry to provide a reference for electric power companies’ accident prevention effort. First, this document sorts out and analyzes all of the causes and influencing elements that may lead to the occurrence of electric personal injuries and deaths, based on which rough accident potential factors are initially identified and combined with the definition of accident potentials. Second, this paper mines and analyzes relevant accident report texts using text-mining technologies such as term count, word cloud, and term frequency–inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), and thus a system of key accident potential factors for personal injuries and deaths within the electric power industry, including three key factors (human, material, and management), is finally constructed. Workers’ habitual violation behavior, in particular, has a larger risk than other key accident potential components, implying that additional steps should be made to eradicate this type of critical accident potential in time.
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Morris, Ricardo. "Fiji media regulation: Emerging from ‘worst of times’ to ‘best of times’?" Pacific Journalism Review 21, no. 1 (May 1, 2015): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v21i1.146.
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A tragic result of the repressive media environment in Fiji has been a huge brain drain within the industry. Many of the best and experienced media workers have left or been forced out. In fact, Australia and New Zealand have benefitted by the migration of some of Fiji’s senior media workers from as far back as 1987, the year of the first two military coups by Lieutenant-Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, and more so in the past eight years since the Voreqe Bainimarama coup in December 2006. Those who have remained have either been moved to non-controversial roles or mellowed to the point of silence.
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Asare, Bernard Yeboah-Asiamah, Elizabeth Thomas, Jacquita S. Affandi, Myles Schammer, Chris Harris, Dominika Kwasnicka, Daniel Powell, Christopher M. Reid, and Suzanne Robinson. "Multiple health-related behaviours among Fly-In Fly-Out workers in the mining industry in Australia: A cross-sectional survey during the COVID-19 pandemic." PLOS ONE 17, no. 10 (October 27, 2022): e0275008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275008.
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Background Fly-In-Fly-Out (FIFO) workers travel to work at isolated locations, and rotate continuous workdays with leave periods at home, and such work practice is common in the offshore oil and gas and onshore mining industry worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying public health actions appear to have had a negative impact on several health-related behaviours among the general population. However, little is known about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health behaviours of FIFO workers, who have shown higher pre-pandemic rates of risky behaviours than the general population in Australia. This study examined the health-related behaviours of FIFO workers in the mining industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted. FIFO workers from an Australian mining company who underwent COVID-19 screening between May and November 2020 completed an online survey about their regular health-related behaviours. The independent sample t-test and Pearson’s chi-square test where appropriate were conducted to examine the differences between males and females for the behavioural outcomes. Results A total of 768 FIFO workers (633 males and 135 females) participated in the study. Prevalence of smoking was high (32%). Males smoked more cigarettes per day than females (15.2±7.0 vs 13.1±7.1, p = .174). Most participants (74.7%) drank alcohol on more than two days per week. Compared to females, more males (20.2% vs 8.0%) consumed alcohol at short-term harmful levels (p = .010). About a third (34.4%) of the workers (33.5% of males and 38.5% of females, p = .264) engaged in inadequate moderate-vigorous exercises/physical activity. About a third (33.1%) of workers (33.7% of males and 30.4% of females; p = .699) had multiple risk behaviours. Conclusions Prevalence of multiple risk behaviours was high. Interventions aimed at the prevention of risky health-related behaviours should target the different behavioural patterns and may require emphasis on gender-informed techniques particularly when addressing alcohol consumption.
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Bush, R. D., J. K. House, B. Hamilton, and P. C. Wynn. "A training program to improve milk production in the developing Chinese dairy industry." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 48, no. 7 (2008): 746. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea07409.
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The Chinese government has been concerned about the inability of Holstein heifers imported from Australia to perform to their genetic potential. Therefore, the Australian government initiated an extension program to address the nutritional, environmental and health management of these animals. This involved developing appropriate resources and providing on-site training at workshops in four Chinese provinces (Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and Heilongjiang) that have been the major recipients of Australian cattle and together account for 65% of China’s dairy herd. Training resources were developed in the form of a comprehensive reference manual, a set of 12 applied fact sheets and an interactive DVD. Training has been delivered to over 285 key dairy extension workers and farmers from across China, with over 90% of participants giving a positive appraisal for all workshop sessions. The growth of dairy farming in China is likely to be the key driver of continued demand for dairy heifers from Australia and associated support for training, which must now be the initiative of the Chinese government.
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BROOKE, LIBBY. "Prolonging the careers of older information technology workers: continuity, exit or retirement transitions?" Ageing and Society 29, no. 2 (January 8, 2009): 237–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x0800768x.
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ABSTRACTThe article explores the ways in which older workers' career trajectories influenced their exit from or continuity of employment in the Australian information technology (IT) industry. The data were collected through qualitative interviews with 71 employees of 10 small and medium-sized IT firms as part of the cross-country Workforce Ageing in the New Economy project (WANE), which was conducted in Canada, the United States, Australia and several European Union countries (the United Kingdom, Germany and The Netherlands). The analysis revealed that older IT workers' capacity to envisage careers beyond their fifties was constrained by age-based ‘normative’ capability assumptions that resulted in truncated careers, dissuaded the ambition to continue in work, and induced early retirement. The workers' constricted, age-bound perspectives on their careers were reinforced by the rapid pace of technological and company transformations. A structural incompatibility was found between the exceptional dynamism and competitiveness of the IT industry and the conventional age-staged and extended career. The analysis showed that several drivers of occupational career trajectories besides the well-researched health and financial factors predisposed ‘default transitions’ to exit and retirement. The paper concludes with policy and practice recommendations for the prolongation of IT workers' careers and their improved alignment with the contemporary lifecourse.
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Given, Jock. "Not Being Ernest: Uncovering Competitors in the Foundation of Australian Wireless." Historical Records of Australian Science 18, no. 2 (2007): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr07012.
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Ernest Fisk was the dominant figure in early wireless in Australia. He headed Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), AWA, 1917–44, and was managing director of Electric and Musical Industries (EMI) in London, 1945–51. Arriving in Australia in 1911 at a critical moment in wireless development, Fisk became the main local representative for an industry that was born global. He was not, however, the first, as is often claimed. This article examines his predecessors, whose failures tell a good deal about Fisk's strengths, the good fortune of his timing and the business strategies of early multinational wireless companies.