Dissertations / Theses: 'Occupational health Law'

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Dhillon, Balinder Singh. "The State's role in occupational health and safety administration /." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56897.

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In the following thesis the administrative strategies in occupational health and safety regulation form the primary focus of discussion.
The initial approach for ensuring acceptable work conditions had been through direct state intervention and the use of coercive power. In view of the limitations of this approach, over time, state regulation was replaced by the "self-regulation" or "internal-responsibility system" under which participants at the workplace were given an enhanced say in the regulatory process. Recent trends have continued to favour this shift towards deregulation of the state's administrative structures.
The self-regulation strategy, however, also has limited applicability and can only prove effective if applied in combination with the state's enforcement strategies. The two approaches need to be viewed as being complimentary to one another and not mutually exclusive. This being the case the state's role in the regulatory process would require re-examination and alteration to ensure an effective and efficient regulatory structure.

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Salmons, Ilona. "Best Practices for Managing Burnout in Attorneys." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606092.

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Attorneys in the United States suffer from higher-than-average rates of depression, substance abuse, and suicidal ideation. Although these facts are widely accepted, at the time of the study, there was no consensus in the legal or research communities as to the cause of these alarming statistics. The combination of behavioral and psychological distress experienced by attorneys may suggest that burnout is a contributing factor. This study examined the relationship between workplace stressors and professional burnout. The literature review summarized recent and landmark studies in the field, as well as explored characteristics unique to the legal profession that were putting attorneys at risk. In an effort to understand the best practices that reduced instances of burnout in practicing attorneys, the phenomenological study asked participants about their experiences as an attorney, as well as the practices they employed to mitigate professional stress. The research findings supported the literature review and resulted in important implications for law firms, bar associations, law schools, and practitioners.

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Beck, Annie Q. "RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHYSICAL FITNESS MEASURES AND OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICAL ABILITY IN UNIVERSITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/khp_etds/9.

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Law enforcement on academic campuses can be a physically demanding profession. Law enforcement officers (LEOs) may be required to perform a variety of physical tasks. Identifying which physical fitness characteristics are associated with these tasks will guide the development of appropriate and effective exercise programs. Therefore the purpose of this study was to identify physical fitness and demographic characteristics associated with the occupational physical ability of university LEOs. Sixteen male LEOs (age: 33.1±8.7 yr.; body mass: 87.2±11.2 kg; height: 178.9±7.9 cm) performed an officer physical ability test (OPAT) that simulated a foot chase of a suspect. In addition, the officers completed a battery of physical fitness tests that assessed aerobic and anaerobic capacity, muscular endurance, strength, power, flexibility, agility, and body composition. The OPAT was correlated with agility, upper body muscular endurance and strength, torso endurance, lower body power, aerobic endurance, and relative body composition (p<0.05). In addition, the OPAT was correlated with the following demographic and anthropometric variables: age, work experience, and waist and abdominal circumferences (p<0.05). In conclusion, tactical strength and conditioning professionals must design exercise programs for university LEOs to improve multiple components of physical fitness and focus on weight management.

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Regensberg, Deborah Jean. "The implications of legislative changes on bargaining councils and occupational health services : a management consulting case study." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5040.

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Thesis (MBA (Business Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 1999.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As part of South Africa's transformation, legislative changes have been introduced to support the Constitutional rights of the people, including the right of access to health care. In restructuring the health services, the redistribution of resources between the private and public sector is addressed through a long-term vision which includes a Social Health Insurance scheme. The focus has been shifted to primary health and prevention, with community based services at the centre. Various Acts and regulations have been introduced to give substance to the transformation, including the Acts affecting medical schemes and the pharmaceutical services, labour legislation, education and training. The Bargaining Councils and Occupational health services have been extended to include primary health care, and in many cases this is extended to the dependents of the workers, bringing them into the ambit of the private sector. The proposed redistribution of resources into the public sector has placed the low-wage earner at risk as the cost of private health care increases. The legislation controlling medical schemes and pharmaceutical services are a threat to the viability of the Health Care Funds, particularly in the short-term until the Social Health Insurance has been established. The restrictions placed on dispensing and the measures which are intended to make drugs more affordable also provide a challenge to the low-cost medical funds. The relevant legislation is being subjected to judicial challenges, and the replacement legislation promulgated prematurely, resulting in confusion and uncertainty. It is within this context that the Funds must prepare for the changes ahead. A management consulting case study is presented using the Clothing Industry Bargaining Council of the Western Cape with the Clothing Industry Health Care Fund which provides comprehensive primary health services in Fund owned clinics, factories and through panel doctors. Because of the complexity of the organisation and the issues surrounding the implementation of changes to the pharmaceutical services, Yolles' viable approach to management systems has been used as a framework for the consultancy intervention. This is a newly published approach grounded in chaos theory, which directs the nature of inquiry according to form and the behaviour of the situation, aiming to maintain viability and adaptability. This case study examines the impact of the legislative changes on the health services which are accessed through the workplace, and tests the applicability of the viable approach to management systems.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: As deel van Suid-Afrika se transformasie is veranderings aangebring aan die wetgewing om die Konstitusionele regte van die mense te ondersteun, insluitend die reg van toegang tot gesondheidsorg. Met die herstrukturering van die gesondheidsdienste, word die verdeling van bronne tussen die privaat en publieke sektor aangespreek deur middel van 'n lang-tenmyn visie wat 'n gemeenskapsgesondheidsversekering insluit. Die lokus het herskuil na primêre gesondheid en voorkoming, met gemeenskapsdienste as sentrum. Verskeie wette en regulasies is voorgestel om as kern van die verandering te dien, insluitende wette wat die mediese skemas en farmaseutiese dienste, asook die werknemer, opleiding en opvoeding beinvloed. Die gesondheidsdienste van die Onderhandelingsrade en die Beroepsgesondheiddienste is uitgebrei om primêre sorg in te sluit. Dit sal ook die afhanklikes van die werkers dek en hulle sodoende binne die privaatsektor betrek. Die voorgestelde herverdeling van bronne in die publieke sekdor veroorsaak dat daar 'n risiko is vir die werker met 'n lae inkomste as gevolg van die stygende koste van gesondheidsorg. Die wetgewing wat mediese skemas en farmaseutiese dienste beheer veroorsaak ook dat die Siekefonds se lewensvatbaarheid bedreig word, veral in die korttenmyn tot tyd en wyl die gemeenskapsgesondheidsversekering gestig word. Die beperkings wat op reseptering geplaas word en die metodes wat beplan word om medisyne meer bekostigbaar te maak, veroorsaak ook 'n uitdaging vir die inkomste mediese fondse. Die relevante wetgewing word tans in die hof betwis, en die plaasvervangende wetgewing is voortydig gepromulgeer, wat verwarring en onsekerheid veroorsaak. Die siekefondse moet hulle binne die konteks voorberei vir die veranderinge wat voorlê. 'n Bestuurskonsultasie gevallestudie is voorgelê, met die hulp van die Klerasienywerheid Gesondheidsorgfonds (Weskaap), wie se siekefonds omvattende primêre gesondheidsdienste lewer binne klinieke, fabrieke en deur gemeenskapsgeneeskundiges. Omdat die organisasie en die omstandighede rondom die veranderings aan die farmaseutiese dienste kompleks is, word Yolles se lewensvatbare benadering (viable approach) as 'n raamwerk gebruik vir die konsultasie. Die model is nuut gepubliseer, en is gebaseer op chaos teorie, wat rigting gee aan die aard van die ondersoek volgens die vorm en die gedrag wat die situasie aanneem. Dit is daarop gemik om lewensvatbaarheid en aanpassingsvermoë te ondersteun. Daar word 'n studie gemaak van die impak wat die veranderings tot wetgewing op gesondheidsdienste wat deur middel van die werksplek bereik word mag hê, en toets die toepaslikheid van Yolles se model in die konteks van bestuurskonsultasie.

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Hebert, Jasmine. "Homicide Waiting to Happen: Sacrifice and Corporate Manslaughter Law in the UK." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37298.

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The original purpose or motive of the sacrifice, rooted in ceremonious or religious acts, was as a gift to a centralized power that ensured a common good or prosperity. In modern capitalist society, sacrifice is about “a willingness to sacrifice short-term gains for long-term gains” (Keenan 2005: 11) of freedom and fortune. What is concealed in this propaganda is that true freedom and prosperity is mostly restricted to a few exceedingly privileged and powerful individuals – and every year, these ‘short-term’ sacrifices include the millions of lives of the disciplined and altruistic workers that the system supposedly admires. Within this context, in recent years a growing recognition of the social and economic harms that corporations are capable of causing, specifically against workers and members of the public, led to the development of laws in several countries aimed at corporate manslaughter and corporate criminal liability. However, despite these legal advancements, the law continues to fail at protecting the victims of corporate harm and wrongdoing, and to adequately hold corporations and their actors accountable for their crimes. This research asks the following question: what role does corporate manslaughter law play in the reproduction of sacrifice and, in the process, violence and capitalist hegemony? This is done by interrogating the introduction and enforcement of corporate manslaughter law in the United Kingdom and the struggle for corporate criminal accountability from the socio-historical perspective of advanced neoliberal capitalism. Employing a theoretical lens that draws together literatures on sacrifice, law, and violence, this research shows that the law (re)produces particular understandings of sacrifice and violence that benefit the powerful, therein normalizing death and dying at work as the natural and largely unavoidable costs of modern employment relations. The research concludes that, to better address the systemic violence faced by workers, we must consider a restructuring of the legal enterprise and the ‘common sense’ understandings of sacrifice, violence, and harm that accompany it.

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Kappler, Rachele Marie. "Changes in physical activity with the use of motivational interviewing in law enforcement officers: a case study." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1492103825352752.

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Morrell, Catherine M. "Salivary Cortisol, Rank, and Perceived Control Among Law Enforcement Personnel." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1322838902.

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Domingos, Anacleto Gaspar. "A critical analysis of the Angolan Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) law and the protection it offers to employees of the oil and gas industry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13186.

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This study is specifically concerned with the effect of occupational health and safety (hereafter OHS) law in Angola and the protection it offers to employees in the oil and gas industry. The current Angolan OHS legislation continues to be characterised by the pre-independence legal system inherited from the colonial era, which creates a crisis of legitimacy and justice. This crisis may be resolved through the ratification of the International Labour Organisation OHS conventions. This dissertation examines workplace health and safety in Angola from a legal perspective in detail, and explores international instruments that are used to protect employees from unhealthy and unsafe conditions. An analysis of the relevant source materials reveals a disjunction between the international standards and the laws as implemented in Angola. It is a fact that the law is expected to offer as far as is possible reasonable health and safety protection to employees. Evidence demonstrates, however, that these laws have largely failed to meet expectations. The problem is not only the fragmentation and inconsistency of the OHS laws, but also that the framework is in need of revision and a dedicated plan to resolve the gaps in the existing legislation. The study thus explores the discontinuities and deficiencies of the regulatory framework as well as of the enforcement mechanisms. Similarly, it proposes an extensive shift of emphasis away from the current legal debate to focus on the relevant issues that will offer substantive protection to the health and safety of employees, as well as justice in law reform. Various steps need to be taken to ratify the OHS conventions in order to improve the deficient framework of OHS legislation in Angola.

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Savarese, Josephine. "The gifts of the chip? : the regulation of occupational health and safety in the post-industrial age." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30324.

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In the face of the extensive changes resulting from the Post-Industrial Age, many are questioning "the gifts of the chip," or, more specifically, the ability of computer technologies to deliver the comfort predicted. The objective of this thesis is to examine the law's response to computer technology concerning occupational health and safety. This inquiry is necessary due to the dramatic changes that have occurred in the workforce, altering the profile of workplace health.
The thesis begins with a reference to The Gift of Stones, a fictional account of the difficulties that stone workers experienced when the Bronze Age arrived. Modern labourers face parallel struggles due to the arrival of the Post-Industrial Age characterized by technological innovation and restructuring. The legitimacy and effectiveness of occupational health and safety law is challenged by changes to social institutions and by computer related work injuries.
In many jurisdictions, the state has responded to these changes by enacting ergonomic standards that seek to minimize the harmful effects of computer use. The thesis examines the trend towards ergonomic standards with particular focus on Canadian initiatives. In conclusion, it argues that ergonomic regulations are an important means of promoting safer computer practices. Additionally, ergonomic standards provide a mechanism for continued state regulation of occupational health and safety. The challenge for rule makers is ensuring that the standards are a component of comprehensive legal reforms.

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Kula, Sedat. "Occupational stress and work-related wellbeing of Turkish National Police (TNP) members." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4957.

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Previous studies suggest that the organizational dynamics of police organizations and the nature of police work contribute to law enforcement stress, which in turn reduces job satisfaction and increases burnout. It is also well documented that undesirable organizational factors are more hazardous to the well-being of employees than are the stressors due to nature of police work. The present study examines whether, and to what degree, organizational and operational stresses in law enforcement are associated with job satisfaction, work-related burnout, and supervisor support, holding the effects of age, rank, education, gender, tenure, and shift type constant in the analysis. A total of 538 Turkish National Police (TNP) employees from seven cities in Turkey, comprising 407 regular police officers and 131 ranked police officers, completed the study survey. The influence of organizational and operational stresses on the work-related well-being of TNP employees as measured by job satisfaction and work-related burnout was analyzed by structural equation modeling (SEM) under the theoretical framework of Kahn and Byosiere's (1992) causal theory. The results of the study indicate that TNP employees' perceived organizational stress has a statistically significant positive effect on work-related burnout and a negative effect on job satisfaction. The more TNP employees experience their organization as stress inducing, the lower their job satisfaction levels and the higher their burnout levels. Perceived operational stress of TNP employees was found to be significantly associated with their work-related burnout, but not with their job satisfaction. This study suggests that there is an indirect causal effect of both organizational and operational stresses on job satisfaction via supervisor support as mediator.; Supervisor support fully mediates the relationship between operational stress and job satisfaction, and partially mediates the relationship between organizational stress and job satisfaction. After controlling the influence of several demographic variables, job satisfaction made a statistically significant contribution to predicting work-related burnout. This finding suggests that as job satisfaction of TNP employee increases, their work-related burnout decreases. The findings of the study revealed that among the six demographic variables, only education level of TNP employees and rank make statistically significant contribution to their job satisfaction levels. As rank and education level of TNP employees increase, their job satisfaction also increases. The predictor variables of organizational stress, operational stress, and supervisor support, along with education and rank collectively, explain 56% of the total variation in job satisfaction. On the other hand, organizational stress, operational stress, job satisfaction, and supervisor support together account for 34% of the total variance in work-related burnout. Overall, the findings of this study illustrate a need for internal policy reform and managerial change in how the executives of TNP organize their agencies and policies, since organizational stressors are the most prevalent factors determining the work-related well-being of TNP employees.
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Bronkhorst, Johannes Petrus. "Herstrukturering van persentasie gehoorverlies bepaling." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/789.

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Thesis (MTech (Omgewingsgesondheid))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011.
Occupational related diseases (ORD) which result in permanent disability are compensable in South Africa. During the 2005/6 – 2007/8 financial years compensation for ORD’s totalled approximately R200 million per annum of which this study indicated, R92 milllion on average possibly related to hearing loss. This expense must surely result in negative financial consequences for both the South African government and employers. The manner in which compensation for hearing loss relating to the work place, is to be determined, was changed by Instruction 171 published in the Government Gazette dated 16 November 2001. A baseline audiogram is required for every employee who enters a noise zone during the course of employ and Instruction 171 specified that the percentage hearing loss has to be used to determine this baseline audiogram. A baseline audiogram, which is valid for the total working career of an employee, is used to monitor the hearing status of employees for purposes of possible future compensation. It consequently serves as a reference point from which hearing threshold shifts (HTS) are determined. The significance of the accuracy of this test is thus evident.Prior to the implementation of Instruction 171, various audiometric measuring tools were, in accordance with South African Standards, used in industry for purposes of hearing conservation. These measuring tools referred to above were used for various purposes which included, the determination of; compensable HL, the need for diagnostic procedures, when HL had to be reported to the Department of Labour as “an incident” and the efficiency of a hearing conservation program. With implementation of Instruction 171, these various measuring tools were reduced to a single tool namely the PLH.Naturally the accuracy of PLH determination is also important to employees as it may affect possible compensation of an individual’s hearing loss. Considering the significance of baseline audiograms for purposes of compensation, the following questions arose in this study; (i) does PLH, in its current format, measure the hearing threshold (HT) sufficiently accurately to (a) establish the baseline audiogram, (b) monitor HL for purposes of compensation, and (ii) is the PLH, as currently determined, suitable to identify further diagnostic procedures for purposes of hearing conservation?A more accurate PHL calculation procedure would be to the advantage of all parties concerned. A database which included baseline audiograms of 1101 respondents was studied to determine if the PLH, in its current format, was suitable to comply with the needs pertaining to industrial audiometry. The respondents were employees working in noise zones at various industries, located in the Western Cape and were all tested in accordance with South African audiometry standards.The current PLH determination procedure was studied and current audiometry baseline test results were reconstructed in a manner to calculate an alternative PLH. This reconstructed PLH was consequently used to determine a new B-baseline audiogram. StatSoft Statistica, software was used to statistically compare the current baseline audiogram with the B-baseline audiogram. The study revealed that the B-baseline audiogram succeeded to on average produce a 17% improvement (more accurate) in the determination of the PLH. The PLH of the B-baseline audiogram can thus be regarded as more representative of the true HT of employees.Based on the results of this study it is recommended that the current determination of the PLH used to establish the baseline, be amended. The proposed amendment (B-baseline audiogram) still uses the HT of the two tests done in accordance with Instruction 171 and no amendment of the test procedure is thus required. As the PLH of the baseline and the diagnostic baseline audiogram is currently used for compensation purposes, it is recommended that the B-baseline method be used for both the baseline and diagnostic baseline audiograms.

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Pringle, Jessica Samantha. "The role and efficacy of management in influencing the implementation of an occupational health and safety policy : a case study of DaimlerChrysler South Africa East London." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007589.

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The existence of an occupational health and safety policy is believed to be evidence of management accepting their occupational health and safety role in terms of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. It is accepted that this results in management ensuring the provision of a safe workplace. Despite the emphasis in legislation (the Occupational Health and Safety Act) on the need for management to implement comprehensive occupational health and safety policies, there is a lack of research on the implementation and efficacy of occupational health and safety policies in the workplace. This study investigates the efficacy with which management carries out their occupational health and safety duties and responsibilities when implementing the provisions of an occupational health and safety policy in the workplace. A number of factors are essential to the efficient performance of management in this regard. These factors include managerial commitment, practices and strategies; communication practices and structures; training initiatives and information; the extent of employee and trade union involvement; and the infrastructure of the organisation. This research study is primarily qualitative in nature. Semi-structured interviews were the primary tool used by the researcher to collect the data. The case-study research method was employed to assist the researcher in collecting the data. The participants involved in the research were selected using the principles of strategic informant sampling and expert choice sampling. The participants consisted of a sample of management, employees and shop stewards. The research findings indicate that firstly, the presence of occupational health and safety policies, practices, strategies and systems in the workplace do not automatically result in reduced hazards, accidents or deaths in the workplace. Secondly, the participation schemes and the communication practices put in place by management are weak. The reason for their weakness is their ineffective implementation by management and use by employees and the trade union. Thirdly, management has a definite impact on the involvement, attitudes and actions of the employees and the trade union in occupational health and safety issues. Fourthly, there is an unequal partnership between management and employees as a result of the educational differences regarding occupational health and safety between them. The outcome is that management and employees are faced with numerous challenges in relation to occupational health and safety. Contributing to this challenge is a lack of sufficient resources allocated to training, resulting ultimately in the ineffective monitoring of occupational health and safety in the workplace. The existence of occupational health and safety structures and systems does not provide the essential evidence to suggest that their mere presence makes a difference to the workplace safety level. However, through more co-operation and participation by all the parties, these structures and systems have the potential to be effective.
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McKee, Herbert G. Jr. "Wellness programs in police departments and how they effect workers' compensation claims." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/873.

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Missal, Stefan. "Betriebliches Eingliederungsmanagement in KMU." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät IV, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16880.

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Die Forschungsarbeit hat das Betriebliche Eingliederungsmanagement (im Folgenden BEM) in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (im Folgenden KMU) zum Gegenstand. Einerseits wird die Rechtsnorm gem. § 84 Abs. 2 SGB IX aus arbeits- und sozialpolitischer Sicht in Form und Funktion aufgearbeitet. Andererseits wird eine manuale Strategie zur Umsetzung des BEM entwickelt, mittels derer 42 BEM-Fälle in 10 KMU begleitet werden. Nach Diskussion der theoriegeleiteten Erkenntnisse und empirischen Ergebnisse folgt ein Ausblick. Es werden Anregungen zur weiterführenden Forschung gegeben, aber auch Forderungen an die Politik formuliert, die im Handlungsfeld der Präventionsnorm bestehenden und durch die Forschungsarbeit aufgedeckten Problempunkte aufzulösen und somit einen wirksamen Praxistransfer des BEM zu ermöglichen.
The research paper concentrates on Corporate Integration Management (CIM) in small and medium companies (SME). On the one hand the task consists in reviewing the form and function of the legal norm under Section 84 Subsection 2 of Book IX of the German Social Code (SGB) in terms of labour and social policies. On the other hand a manual-based strategy for implementing CIM shall be developed. Following the integration of the legally valid CIM concept with the appropriately adapted framework the manual is subjected to an empirical review. By accompanying 42 CIM cases in 10 SMEs it has been possible to show on the basis of partly standardized and open guided interviews with company experts that the introduction and implementation of CIM is markedly enhanced by means of this manual. The discussion of the theory-guided findings and the empirical results is followed by an outlook. Suggestions for further research are made while the political establishment is called upon to resolve the challenges existing within the scope of the prevention norm and revealed in the research paper thus facilitating an effective transfer of the CIM theory into the practice field.

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Jacobs, Olivia. "The Simple Truths of Safety at Sea for Alaskan Tender Vessels: Feasible Regulatory Changes to Prevent Vessel Casualties in the 17th Coast Guard District Tender Fleet." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/908.

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Tender vessels in the United States will soon need to comply with new safety regulations as mandated by the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010. This thesis focuses specifically on assisting in the formation of an Alternative Safety Compliance Program (ASCP) for the unique tender vessel fleet and seeks to understand why tender vessels experience fatalities and vessel casualties. By analyzing data of tendermen fatalities and tender vessel casualties between 2000 and 2012, the report sheds light on the realities of these incidents. Among other findings, the data show that the most common cause of vessel casualty was striking rocks or the ocean floor, and the most common human error was falling asleep at the helm. This thesis then proposes potential regulations that would be economically feasible and realistic for tenders by comparing the casualty data to the reported financial realities of current tender vessels. Notably, the analysis indicates that applying the current Alternative Compliance and Safety Agreement (ACSA) to tenders would not be beneficial. Ultimately, the proposed regulations herein should act as a foundation for a discussion regarding an alternative compliance agreement, as the final agreement will be reached through a much greater dialogue between many involved parties, including tendermen, regulators, safety compliance experts, and others.

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Holmberg, Sofia. "Den psykosociala arbetsmiljöregleringen : Med inriktning på arbetsrelaterad stress." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-33440.

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This essay focus on work related stress and psychosocial enviroment in working life. The purpose of this study is to present a detailed description of regulation of the the Occupational Safety and Health Act and investigate how well employees are being protected by the law. I will also explain with the help of statistic which employees that most often suffer from work related stress and the results is discussed from a gender perspective. Work related phycosocial health is a big issue in todays workplaces, and people who suffers from stress are supposed to be protecteded by the the Occupational Safety and Health Act, but is that really the truth? The Occupational Safety and Health Act is a frame law, meaning the law is general and needs binding regulations to define the rules, and there is no such act about work related stress at the moment. No employer has ever been convicted for work related stress. At the same time the Occupational Safety and Health Act explains that the employer has a responsibility to take arrangement to prevent mental illness in working life. It’s mostly women who suffer from work related stress. The most common reason for sick leave among women is caused by their mental health, and it often caused by organizational elements like a heavy work load or a minor self-monitoring. These elements commonly appear in occupations where the employee works with people. The fact that there is no binding regulation about work related stress can create problems, especially for women. The problems and effects that can occur will be treated and analyzed in this essay. Finally there will be a reflection about how binding regulations in the aspect of work related stress may help women get a better protection in the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

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Bouldi, Nadia. "Le droit de la prévention à l'aune des sciences du travail : droit et régulation du travail réel." Thesis, Université de Lille (2022-....), 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022ULILD002.

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Notre thèse présente un caractère interdisciplinaire : son assise se situe dans le champ du droit, tout en s’inscrivant dans celui de l’ergonomie. Cette recherche met en lumière les contours du droit de la prévention de la santé au travail. Cette matière se développe parallèlement et consubstantiellement à la précision des faits scientifiques, en particulier ceux forgés par l’ergonomie de l’activité, discipline qui se fonde sur le principe de l’adaptation du travail à l’Homme, par le développement des personnes et des organisations. Aussi, le droit de la prévention définit un ensemble d’espaces d’expression et de délibération sur le travail, articulés avec des temps de prises de décision. L’usage de ces ressources porte le potentiel d’un réel processus démocratique pour la prise de décision, régulant les contours de l’organisation, à l’échelle la plus idoine dans l’entreprise ou la branche. En cela, ce droit invite à dépasser la relation de subordination caractérisant la relation de travail, et ce, en se donnant comme objectif le développement des personnes et des organisations. Pour un usage efficient de ces ressources, accompagner les acteurs de la prévention ‒ sans les déposséder de leurs rôles ‒ relève souvent d’un enjeu. L’expertise fondée sur l’intervention capacitante présente un intérêt pour cette mise en place. Par ailleurs, le droit de la prévention se rénove grâce, au moins, à trois vecteurs : le débat doctrinal véhiculant les différentes approches scientifiques, la jurisprudence qui adapte le prescrit du droit en fonction des rappels du réel, et le processus de prélégislation qui s’inspire des usages réels
Our thesis is interdisciplinary: it is based on both fields of Law and ergonomics. This research outlines the prevention Law for labor health. This legal field has been developed in parallel and consubstantially while taking into account the scientific facts, in particular those designed by occupational ergonomics, a discipline which is based on the principle of adapting work to the worker (fitting work to the human), by developing individuals, collectives, and organizations. Also, prevention Law defines a set of spaces concerning expression on work, articulated with spaces for decision-making time. The use of these resources carries the potential of a real democratic process for decision-making, regulating the organization, at the most appropriate scale in company or branch. In this, this right allows to go beyond the relationship of subordination characterizing the working relationship, and this, by giving the development of workers and organizations as an objective. For an efficient use of these resources, supporting the actors of prevention – without dispossessing them of their roles – is often a challenge. The expertise based on the enabling intervention is of interest for this implementation. In addition, prevention law is being renovated thanks to at least three paths: the doctrinal debate conveying the different scientific approaches, case law which adapts the prescribed law according to reminders of reality, and the process of pre-legislation which is inspired by real uses

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Herold, Stefan. "Betriebliches Eingliederungsmanagement in KMU." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät IV, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16881.

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Die Forschungsarbeit hat das Betriebliche Eingliederungsmanagement (im Folgenden BEM) in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (im Folgenden KMU) zum Gegenstand. Einerseits wird die Rechtsnorm gem. § 84 Abs. 2 SGB IX aus arbeits- und sozialpolitischer Sicht in Form und Funktion aufgearbeitet. Andererseits wird eine manuale Strategie zur Umsetzung des BEM entwickelt, mittels derer 42 BEM-Fälle in 10 KMU begleitet werden. Nach Diskussion der theoriegeleiteten Erkenntnisse und empirischen Ergebnisse folgt ein Ausblick. Es werden Anregungen zur weiterführenden Forschung gegeben, aber auch Forderungen an die Politik formuliert, die im Handlungsfeld der Präventionsnorm bestehenden und durch die Forschungsarbeit aufgedeckten Problempunkte aufzulösen und somit einen wirksamen Praxistransfer des BEM zu ermöglichen.
The research paper concentrates on Corporate Integration Management (CIM) in small and medium companies (SME). On the one hand the task consists in reviewing the form and function of the legal norm under Section 84 Subsection 2 of Book IX of the German Social Code (SGB) in terms of labour and social policies. On the other hand a manual-based strategy for implementing CIM shall be developed. Following the integration of the legally valid CIM concept with the appropriately adapted framework the manual is subjected to an empirical review. By accompanying 42 CIM cases in 10 SMEs it has been possible to show on the basis of partly standardized and open guided interviews with company experts that the introduction and implementation of CIM is markedly enhanced by means of this manual. The discussion of the theory-guided findings and the empirical results is followed by an outlook. Suggestions for further research are made while the political establishment is called upon to resolve the challenges existing within the scope of the prevention norm and revealed in the research paper thus facilitating an effective transfer of the CIM theory into the practice field.

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Franco, Joan. "Organización preventiva en la empresa: análisis jurídico-psicosocial." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/424844.

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Esta investigación explora, desde una perspectiva jurídica y psicosocial, la organización de la prevención de riesgos laborales en la empresa, estableciendo como referencia el sector sanitario. Se trata de una tesis doctoral que, más allá de la relevancia de la dimensión individualsubjetiva, se centra en la vertiente organizativa de los contextos laborales y en su vinculación con los factores psicosociales en el trabajo. Aunque presenta aportaciones cuantitativas, desde el carácter exploratorio del estudio prima el análisis cualitativo. Los resultados revelan la importancia de una correcta organización del trabajo y la relacionan con la salud de las personas trabajadoras y de las organizaciones laborales (personas sanas en organizaciones saludables), defendiéndose la conveniencia de superar la tradicional visión preventiva (negativa, centrada en el riesgo), contemplándose también, mediante visión holística, una más moderna (positiva, centrada en el bienestar), así como mejorar el habitual enfoque técnico-evaluativo (centrado en el puesto de trabajo), incluyéndose otros aspectos como el sexo de la persona, al demostrarse empíricamente –mediante pase de cuestionario RED de Want- Prevención psicosococial en muestra heterogénea y posterior análisis de varianza múltiple– diferencias significativas entre hombres y mujeres en la percepción de demandas y falta de recursos en el trabajo, abogándose finalmente por el sistema de prevención propio o interno cada vez que resulte viable, al soler aportar mayor eficacia preventiva general y psicosocial en particular, históricamente infravalorada frente al riesgo físico.
This research explores, from a legal and psychosocial perspective, the organization of occupational risk prevention in the company, establishing as a reference the health sector. This is a doctoral thesis that, beyond the relevance of the individual-subjective dimension, focuses on the organizational side of the work contexts and its link with the psychosocial factors at work. Although it presents quantitative contributions, from the exploratory nature of the study the qualitative analysis excels. The results show the importance of a proper organization of work and relate it to the health of employees and organizations (healthy people in healthy organizations), defending the convenience of overcoming the traditional preventive perspective (negative, risk-centered), with a more holistic vision (positive, well-centered) approach, as well as improving the usual technical-evaluative approach (centered on the workplace), including other aspects such as gender, demonstrated empirically using a Multiple Variance analysis, significant differences between men and women in an heterogeneous sample in the perception of demands and lack of resources at work, supporting the use of a self-prevention system whenever it is feasible, being more effective for preventing any kind of risk in general, and psychosocial risks in particular.

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Thompson, Toni. "Community Living Integration Club for Women in Recovery from Sex Trafficking." NSUWorks, 2017. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_ot_student_dissertations/47.

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Sex trafficking is one form of human trafficking, a heinous human rights violation that transcends international borders. People who have been trafficked often present with complex neurobehavioral, psychological, emotional, physiological, sensory, and developmental difficulties. The United Nations developed the international 3 p protocol to guide governmental agencies, non-governmental groups, and individuals in developing programs and legal actions of trafficking prevention, protection, and prosecution. Protection encompasses the recovery of trafficking survivors and community integration has been identified as an essential foundation for successful recovery. Measurable components of community integration include safe housing, stable employment, and vocation-focused education. This Capstone describes the organization, implementation, and results of a six-week community integration group experience for five women in a sex trafficking residential recovery program. Key words: Human trafficking, sex trafficking, recovery, trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, occupational therapy, childhood sex abuse, protection, protection, prosecution, 3P Paradigm,

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Keim-Bagot, Morane. "De l'accident du travail à la maladie : la métamorphose du risque professionnel : enjeux et perspectives." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2013. http://buadistant.univ-angers.fr/login?url=https://www.dalloz-bibliotheque.fr/pvurl.php?r=http%3A%2F%2Fdallozbndpro-pvgpsla.dalloz-bibliotheque.fr%2Ffr%2Fpvpage2.asp%3Fpuc%3D5442%26nu%3D150.

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La métamorphose du risque professionnel puise ses sources dans la mutation de la représentation du risque professionnel factuel qui a permis la consécration de la notion de maladie professionnelle. Substituée à l’accident du travail comme centre de gravité du droit des risques professionnels, elle devient le point d’impulsion d’une réflexion nouvelle du concept juridique de risque professionnel entraînant la mutation du risque professionnel pris en charge. Cette métamorphose, dans le droit de la Sécurité sociale, permet la réactivation de l’obligation de sécurité de l’employeur qui irradie le droit du travail et entraîne l’affirmation du droit à la santé et à la sécurité des travailleurs. Partant, la réparation des atteintes à la santé du travailleur est considérablement étendue. Néanmoins, cette construction se heurte à des obstacles de taille, et s’accompagne d’incohérences, qu’il faut dépasser
The metamorphosis of occupational hazard has its sources in the mutation of the representation of factual occupational hazard that led to the consecration of the notion of occupational disease. Substituted for the occupational accident as the centre of gravity of the occupational hazards law, it becomes the impetus for a new reflection about the legal concept of occupational hazard causing the mutation of occupational hazard taken charge of. This metamorphosis in the Social Security law, allows the reactivation of the employer's duty to ensure security that radiates labour law and causes the assertion of the workers’ right to health and safety. Therefore, the compensation of damages to workers’ health is considerably extended. However, this construction is fraught with obstacles, and is accompanied by inconsistencies that must be overcome

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Fernández, Martínez Mª José. "La obligación preventiva de coordinación de actividades empresariales. Técnicas de gestión para un cumplimiento optimizado." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669123.

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Las dificultades en la aplicación de la legislación en materia de seguridad y salud -en las cada vez más frecuentes situaciones de concurrencia empresarial- requiere la adopción de nuevos métodos y técnicas que faciliten un cumplimiento optimizado de las obligaciones empresariales, en este campo preventivo tan relevante para combatir la siniestralidad laboral. El estudio llevado a cabo con esta tesis doctoral de la evolución a nivel legislativo y judicial de la coordinación de actividades empresariales, y su repercusión en la negociación colectiva, ha permitido determinar: el nivel de desarrollo legislativo de las obligaciones empresariales en esta materia, verificar la implantación de la legislación en las empresas y determinar los principales incumplimientos o deficiencias en la aplicación efectiva de la preceptiva coordinación de actividades preventivas. En base a este análisis se plantea una metodología para la implantación de un sistema de gestión global en materia de coordinación preventiva, que permita a las empresas -y de forma especial a las PYME- disponer de los instrumentos de gestión adecuados para la aplicación de una coordinación preventiva efectiva y eficaz.

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Li, Wai Kei. "A study of adopting alternative dispute resolution in occupational safety and health in Hong Kong." access abstract and table of contents access full-text, 2005. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/dissert.pl?ma-slw-b20833817a.pdf.

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Cummings, Devon Leeann. "Using Social Cognitive Career Theory to Conceptualize and Develop a Measure of the Barriers to Career Choice for Individuals Who Have Criminal Records." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1226532928.

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Jubert, Lucie. "L’organisation du travail et la prévention des risques professionnels." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100121.

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Devant les transformations des organisations productives et les dangers nouveaux qu’elles créent pour la santé physique et mentale, la prévention des risques professionnels est en pleine mutation. Son analyse nécessite un instrument permettant de saisir les rapports entre la variété des risques physiques et psychosociaux et les multiples aspects de l’activité de travail subordonnée. La catégorie d’organisation du travail est proposée pour sa capacité à désigner autant la dimension technique de l’activité de travail que la dimension sociale et hiérarchique du pouvoir de direction de l’employeur. Fort de cet instrument, la thèse vise d’abord à éclairer comment le droit tisse les liens entre les catégories juridiques de risque professionnel et d’organisation du travail. Construite autour des notions de causalité et d’imputation, la reconnaissance de ces liens se dévoile comme un lieu d’observation privilégié des rapports entre le droit et la science. La recherche, ensuite, tâche d’expliquer comment le droit agit sur les liens entre les catégories d’organisation du travail et de risque professionnel en vue de prévenir la réalisation de ces derniers. Attaché aux composantes structurantes de l’organisation du travail, le droit de la santé et de la sécurité au travail se révèle un espace où l’agencement juridique des choses et travailleur et en pleine évolution
Faced with transformations of productive organizations and new dangers they create for physical and mental health, the prevention of occupational risks is changing. Its analysis requires an instrument to grasp the relationships between the variety of physical and psychosocial risks and the multiple aspects of subordinate work activity. The category of work organization is proposed for its ability to designate as much the technical dimension of the work activity as the social and hierarchical dimension of the management power of the employer. With this instrument, the thesis aims first of all to shed light on how the legal order weaves links between the categories of occupational risk and work organization. Built around notions of causality and imputation, the recognition of these links is revealed as a place of privileged observation of the relationships between law and science. The research, then, tries to explain how law acts on the links between the categories of work organization and occupational risk in order to prevent the realization of these. Attached to the structuring components of work organization, the law of health and safety at work is a space where the legal arrangement of things and worker and evolving

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Cortobius, Fredriksson Moa. "ProBenefit : Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Ecuadorian Amazon." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Life Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-2771.

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Legislation on benefit sharing dates back to 1992 and the commandment of the UNConvention on Biological Diversity, hence implementation still has few cases to fall back on(CBD, 1992). The case study of the project ProBenefit presented by the thesis highlights howlack of deliberation can undermine a democratic process. The objective of the thesis is thatProBenefit’s attempt to implement the standards of the CBD on access and benefit sharingwill highlight not only problems met by this specific project, but difficulties that generallymeet democratic processes in contexts of high inequality. To define if the project ProBenefitsucceeded in carrying out a deliberative process the project will be analyzed by the criteria:access to information, representation, legitimacy and involvement.The population in the project area of ProBenefit had a long history of social marginalization,which made it hard for foreign projects to gain legitimacy. The lack of independentorganizations and the late establishment of the project, which resulted in time shortage, madeit impossible to prevent the distrust of the local population. The failure of the projectcoordinators to ensure active participation of all stakeholders resulted in a late and lowinvolvement of the local participants. The absence of independent organization also madedemocratic legitimacy of the process questionable. Even if ProBenefit had a vision ofdemocratic deliberation the project was unable to break down the prevailing unequal powerdistribution which resulted in an unsustainable process and failure. The conclusion of thethesis is that the attainment of deliberation foremost depends on how a project deals with theexisting distribution of power and how it succeeds in involving all stakeholders.

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López, Ruiz María 1982. "Empleo informal y salud en Centroamérica : una aproximación desde las desigualdades de género." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/396613.

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El empleo informal es un importante pero poco estudiado determinante social de la salud que afecta a un gran número de personas trabajadoras alrededor del mundo. Las mujeres constituyen una parte importante de la economía informal y, entre otras razones, han utilizado este tipo de empleo como forma de insertarse en el mercado laboral debido a las mejores posibilidades para combinar el empleo y el trabajo doméstico y de cuidados no remunerado. El objetivo principal de esta tesis ha sido valorar la relación entre el estado de salud y la informalidad o formalidad del empleo entre la población trabajadora no agrícola centroamericana. A través de dos estudios empíricos realizados con la I Encuesta Centroamericana de Condiciones de Trabajo y Salud de 2011 y sobre una muestra de 8.823 personas trabajadoras no agrícolas, hemos obtenido los siguientes resultados principales. Tanto mujeres como hombres con empleos informales tuvieron peor estado de salud en comparación con el perfil más formal de empleo (personas asalariadas con cobertura a la seguridad social y contrato escrito). La falta de cobertura a la seguridad social es un elemento clave del empleo informal, y el predictor más fuerte de mala salud. Asimismo, la asociación entre mal estado de salud y la combinación de empleo y responsabilidades de cuidados se limitó básicamente a las mujeres con empleos informales. Estos resultados muestran cómo el empleo informal no agrícola es un factor significativo en las desigualdades en salud entre la población trabajadora centroamericana. Además, también ponen en evidencia desigualdades en salud en relación con el trabajo no remunerado de cuidados, que depende de la interacción entre el género y el empleo informal. Por tanto, dada la estrecha relación entre las esferas del mercado laboral y de los cuidados, para reducir todas las desigualdades encontradas sería necesario implementar políticas enfocadas a ambas esferas.
Informal employment is an important but seldom studied social determinant of health, affecting a large number of workers around the world. Women make up a major portion of the informal economy and they have used such employment as a way to enter the labor market because of the greater possibilities of combining employment and unpaid domestic and care work, among other reasons,. The main objective of this dissertation has been to assess the relationship between health status and different patterns of informal and formal employment among non-agricultural workers in Central America. Through two empirical studies conducted with the I Central American Survey of Working Conditions and Health of 2011 and on a sample of 8,823 non-agricultural workers, we have obtained the following main results. Both women and men in informal employment had poorer health compared to the most formal employment profile (employees covered by social security and a written contract). A lack of social security coverage is a key issue of informal employment and the strongest predictor of poor health status. Furthermore, the association between poor health and the combination of employment and care responsibilities is basically limited to women in informal employment. These results show that informal employment is a significant factor in social health inequalities among Central American non-agricultural workers. In addition, they also reveal health inequalities related to unpaid care work, which depends on the interaction between gender and informal employment. Therefore, and given the close relationship between the spheres of labor market and care, the implementation of polices focused on both spheres would be needed to act in order to reduce the inequalities found.

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Sabadell, Bosch Mar. "El teletrebajo, una nueva comprensión del trabajo. El encaje de la deuda de seguridad y salud en una sociedad digital." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672953.

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El objetivo de la investigación es estudiar el teletrabajo, su aparición y desarrollo, para la comprensión de la transformación que introduce en la idea de trabajar, y analizar el marco normativo como determinante de este recorrido. Desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria, se analiza cómo las acciones y comportamientos organizativos, influidos por los avances tecnológicos y las tendencias económicas, interactúan con la estructura normativa y las decisiones jurídico-políticas reguladoras. La globalización y digitalización de las economías, y el avance hacia una actividad de servicios, manifiestan una transición progresiva de la organización laboral, relativamente estandarizada, hacia estructuras en red diversificadas y asimétricas, donde la hiperconectividad impulsa un desbordamiento de lo que conocemos como entorno de trabajo. Con este escenario económico, y revisando el contexto de la crisis derivada del virus SARS-CoV-2, la tesis propone una reflexión acerca de la transferibilidad del modelo de derecho del trabajo, y sus escollos, a la praxis del teletrabajo.
L'objectiu de la recerca és estudiar el teletreball, la seva aparició i desenvolupament, per comprendre la transformació que introdueix en la idea de treballar, i analitzar el marc normatiu com a determinant d'aquest recorregut. Des d'una perspectiva interdisciplinària, s'analitza com les accions i els comportaments organitzatius, influïts pels avanços tecnològics i les tendències econòmiques, interactuen amb l'estructura normativa i les decisions juridicopolítiques reguladores. La globalització i digitalització de les economies, i l'avançament cap a una activitat de serveis, manifesten una transició progressiva de l'organització laboral, relativament estandarditzada, cap a estructures en xarxa diversificades i asimètriques, on la hiperconnectivitat impulsa un desbordament del que coneixem com a entorn de treball. Amb aquest escenari econòmic, i revisant el context de la crisi derivada del virus SARS-CoV-2, la tesi proposa una reflexió sobre la transferibilitat del model de dret del treball, i els seus esculls, a la praxi del teletreball.
The aim of the research is to study telework and its emergence and development in order to understand how it transforms the concept of working and to analyse the regulatory framework as a determinant of this path. From an interdisciplinary perspective, we analyse how organizational actions and behaviours, influenced by technological advances and economic trends, interact with the regulatory structure and legal-political decisions. The globalization and digitalization of economies, in addition to the advance towards a service activity, manifest a progressive transition from the relatively standardized labour organization towards diversified and asymmetric network structures, where hyperconnectivity drives an overflow of what we know as the work environment. With this economic scenario and reviewing the context of the crisis arising from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the thesis proposes a reflection on the transferability of the model of labour law, and its pitfalls, to the praxis of telework.
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Tarhouny, Nina. "Les risques psychosociaux au travail : Droit et prévention d’une problématique de santé publique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCD067.

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Les mal-nommés risques psychosociaux au travail traduisent l’expression du mépris de la norme fondamentale absolue et matrice des droits de l’Homme : la dignité de l’être humain. Figure de la souffrance au travail, les conditions et les organisations du travail indécentes (au sens de l’ONU) conduisent à la réification du genre humain considéré comme un moyen de production au détriment de ses droits fondamentaux, tels que le droit à la santé au travail. Menaces à la santé publique s’affranchissant des règles de droit fondant l’ordre social,les risques psychosociaux au travail, dont les conséquences des atteintes à la santé physique et mentale des travailleurs se répercutent sur la société tout entière, brisent le contrat social liant les individus à l’État. Les obligations juridiques posées par les textes internationaux, européens et français, imposent à l’État et aux entreprises d’exercer une prévention active et pas seulement réactive. L’État, garant et protecteur du respect de la dignité et des droits humains, peut utiliser ses prérogatives de puissance publique pour mieux protéger la santé des travailleurs.La sociovigilance s’impose alors comme une nouvelle vigilance issue de la sécurité sanitaire du travail. Conjuguée à la création d’une autorité indépendante en charge des questions de santé au travail, la sociovigilance s’accompagne d’une nouvelle proposition d’organisation de la prévention des risques professionnels en France
The misnamed psychosocial risks at work reflect the expression of contempt for the absolute fundamental norm and matrix of human rights : the dignity of the human being. As a manifestation of suffering at work, indecent working conditions and organizations (as defined by the UN) lead to the commodification of humankind as a means of productionat the expense of worker’s fundamental rights, such as the right to health at work. Psychosocial risks at work, which are threats to public health, exempting them from the rule of law on which social order is based, and whose consequences of damage to the physical and mental health of workers affect society as a whole, break the social contract between individuals and the State. The legal obligations laid down by international, European and French texts, require the State and companies to exercise active and not only reactive prevention. The State, as guarantor and protector of respect for dignity and human rights, can use its prerogatives as a public authority to better protect workers’ health.Sociovigilance is then required as a new vigilance resulting from occupational health safety. Combined with the creation of an independent authority in charge of occupational health issues, sociovigilance is accompanied by a new proposal for the organisation of occupational risk prevention in France

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Salako, Abiodun. "The impact of state nurse practitioner scope-of-practice regulations on access to primary care in health professional shortage areas." Diss., University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/7025.

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Primary care physician (PCP) shortages have been a barrier to accessing care for millions of Americans, particularly those living in areas facing the worst shortages - primary care health professional shortage areas (HPSAs). Increased use of nurse practitioners (NPs) has been proposed as a solution to the shortages as NPs can effectively substitute for PCPs. However, this proposal has been hampered by regulatory restrictions on NP scope-of-practice (SOP) that exist in many states. While some states permit NPs to practice and prescribe medications independent of physicians (NP independence), others require extensive physician supervision that limit NPs ability to provide care and substitute for PCPs. Despite the limitations that restrictive regulations pose to improving access to primary care, research evidence of their effect on access in primary care HPSAs is limited. This dissertation fills this gap in the literature. Using individual-level data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys (1996-2015) and a difference-in-differences approach, I exploit variation in NP independence across states and over time to evaluate the impact of NP independence on access to primary care in HPSAs Further, I examined for heterogeneity in the effect of NP independence between HPSAs and non-HPSAs as well as effect heterogeneity in HPSAs based on individual (age, insurance status, and insurance type) and health system characteristics (availability of primary care facilities and NP Medicaid reimbursement rate) I find that NP independence led to a 5% increase in the number of individuals with a primary care provider and a 2% increase in the use of non-physicians (relative to physicians) as the primary care provider in HPSAs. However, non-HPSAs experienced no significant changes in access to care. Further, I find evidence of heterogeneity in the effect of NP independence in HPSAs for all three individual characteristics but find no significant effect heterogeneity for any of the health system characteristics. Non-elderly individuals experienced greater improvements in access following NP independence compared to their elderly counterparts, and while both insured and uninsured individuals experienced improvements in access to care, uninsured individuals benefitted more from NP independence. Further, I find evidence of greater improvements in access to care among Medicaid beneficiaries relative to their privately insured and Medicare counterparts. These findings imply that removing regulatory restrictions on NP SOP could be an effective policy strategy for mitigating the effects of PCP shortages and improving access to care in HPSAs. Further, they demonstrate that NP independence could be a viable tool for addressing access to care issues in two traditionally underserved populations – the uninsured and Medicaid beneficiaries. Beyond addressing access issues, NP independence could also mitigate rising health care costs. The finding of increased use of lower-cost non-physicians rather than their more costly physician counterparts after NP independence indicates that this policy change could also bring about cost savings for society.

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Hoppe, Kimberly Ann. "Bioaerosol exposure assessment and the Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4858.

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In June 2008, the Cedar River crested flooding more than 5,000 Cedar Rapids homes. Residents whose homes were flooded were invited to participate in this study. We characterized exposures and symptoms experienced by individuals inhabiting 73 flood-damaged homes. Exposures and questionnaire-based health assessments were compared at two levels of remediation, in-progress and completed. Homes with remediation in-progress (n=24), as compared to the completed homes (n=49), had significantly higher airborne concentrations of mold, bacteria, iPM, endotoxin and glucan. Residents of in-progress homes had a significantly higher prevalence of doctor diagnosed allergies (adjusted OR=3.08; 95%CI: 1.05-9.02) and all residents had elevated prevalence of self-reported wheeze (adjusted OR=3.77; 95%CI: 2.06-6.92) and prescription medication use for breathing problems (adjusted OR=1.38; 95%CI: 1.01-1.88) after the flood as compared to before. Proper post-flood remediation led to improved air quality and lower exposures among residents living in flooded homes. Recognition of endotoxin as a proinflammatory ligand for pattern recognition receptors has increased the demand for endotoxin assessment in studies of environmental lung disease. Measurements using the Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) assay of air and reservoir dust samples are routinely incorporated into epidemiologic studies. However, it is unknown if endotoxin reactivity in the LAL assay varies by its physical presentation as aggregates, as membrane components of whole bacteria or as shed membrane blebs or if this parallels differences in the inflammatory potency of endotoxin in vivo. Endotoxins as14C-labeled-lipooligosaccharide (14C-LOS) and 14C- labeled-lipopolysaccharide (14C-LPS) were produced from Neisseria meningitidis and Escherichia coli. The reactivity of the endotoxin presentations was assessed in the LAL assay and in vivo using a murine model. The LAL assay significantly underestimated the quantity of endotoxin in the whole bacteria form whereas there was no significant difference in detecting endotoxin in aggregate and bleb forms. The failure of the LAL assay to equally quantify endotoxin was not mirrored in vivo where all three presentations of endotoxin were equally inflammatory. The inability of the LAL assay to detect the full quantity of endotoxin presented in the whole bacteria form has troubling implications for exposure assessment studies. Various extraction methods were applied to samples of known endotoxin quantity to improve the detection ability of the LAL assay. Extraction using EDTA and Tris/EDTA significantly improved the detection of endotoxin compared to the reference method of extracting in pyrogen-free water. These extraction methods also significantly increased the quantity of endotoxin measured in house and barn dust samples. A higher quantity of endotoxin measured in the LAL assay corresponded to a higher neutrophilic response in vivo. A standardized methodology for endotoxin detection that mimics the in vivo response is necessary for accurate and consistent endotoxin analysis.

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Chavez, Geldres Adriana. "Propuesta de un proceso de gestión de seguridad y salud ocupacional para aumentar la productividad de las mypes esparragueras de la región Ica." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/655442.

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Las micro y pequeñas empresas (mypes) representan el 99.1% del total, conformando el estrato empresarial más grande del Perú, sin embargo, su tiempo de vida es corto ya que presentan factores administrativos, operativos o estratégicos que afectan su productividad, del total de microempresas y pequeñas empresas que se crearon en los últimos 10 años, desaparecieron el 55% y el 42.3%, respectivamente. El sector agropecuario presenta un crecimiento en los últimos años, sin embargo, ocupa el primer lugar en empleo informal. Los productos de exportación como los espárragos destacan en el sector agrícola, según las estadísticas, Ica es la región con una mayor producción de espárragos que equivale a 53% del total. Por ello, este estudio se elabora con la información obtenida de las entrevistas realizadas a las mypes esparragueras de la región Ica, donde se diagnostica que su principal problema es la baja productividad debido a las herramientas en mal estado, inadecuado uso de equipos de protección personal y posturas de trabajo inadecuadas, entre otros. En consecuencia, se plantea un proceso de gestión de seguridad y salud ocupacional acorde a la ley N° 29783 cuyos subprocesos son la evaluación de peligros y riesgos, la ejecución del trabajo, la inspección del trabajo, las capacitaciones y el control documentario, además, se proponen estaciones de trabajo, herramientas y equipos más ergonómicos así como un adecuado uso de los EPP, lo cual tendrá un impacto positivo en la productividad y evitará las multas por no cumplir con la ley.
The micro and small enterprises (MSEs) represent 99.1%, making up the largest business stratum in Peru, however, its life time is short since there are administrative, operational or strategic factors that affect its productivity, of the total of micro and small enterprises that were created in the last 10 years, 55% and 42.3 %, respectively, have already disappeared. The agricultural sector has shown growth in recent years, however, it occupies the first place in informal employment. Export products as asparagus are prominent in the agricultural sector, according to statistics, Ica is the region with the highest production of asparagus, which is equivalent to 53% of the total. For this reason, this study is made with the information obtained from interviews in the asparagus MSEs in Ica region, where it is diagnosed that their main problem is low productivity due to tools in poor condition, inadequate use of personal protective equipment and inappropriate work postures, among others. Consequently, an occupational health and safety management process is proposed in accordance with act 29783 whose sub-processes are the evaluation of hazards and risks, the execution of the work, the labor inspection, the training and the documentary control, in addition, more ergonomic workstations, tools and equipment are proposed as well as proper use of PPE, which will have a positive impact on productivity and avoid payments for not complying with the law.
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Razé, Laetitia. "L'âge en droit social : étude en droit européen, français et allemand." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013REN1G025/document.

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L’allongement de la durée de la vie humaine et le déficit du rapport démographique constituent de véritables défis pour les systèmes sociaux des États membres. Pour y faire face, les législateurs doivent à la fois développer une politique de protection des plus jeunes dans le cadre des relations professionnelles, tout en revisitant les logiques des seuils d’âge notamment au regard de la fin de ces relations. Cette étude a vocation à s’interroger sur l’existence d’un concept de l’âge. Fort d’une histoire culturelle, confortée par une analyse du phénomène physiologique du vieillissement par le législateur, le critère de l’âge entretient des liens particuliers avec les principes généraux du droit de l’Union, tel que le principe de la dignité humaine et le principe de l’égalité de traitement. Malgré tout, le critère de l’âge conserve une ambivalence certaine, mise en exergue à travers le principe général du droit de l’Union de non-discrimination à raison de l’âge. Cette ambivalence se manifeste plus fortement encore à l’issue des relations professionnelles, posant ainsi la question de la place de l’âge à la fin de la vie active. Ce curseur au soutien du pacte intergénérationnel, conditionnant le bénéfice de la liquidation de la pension, connaît actuellement un renouveau, dépassant les frontières des États membres. Une convergence dans le traitement de la vieillesse se crée, tendant au développement de nouvelles solidarités dans le cadre de l’entreprise (régimes professionnels d’entreprise). Il s’agit en outre de favoriser la poursuite de l’activité à un âge élevé (relèvement de l’âge légal de la retraite, décote, surcote, encadrement des régimes dérogatoires, prohibition des ruptures de la relation de travail fondée sur l’âge…) et de repenser les rapports entre les relations de travail et l’âge (cumul emploi - retraite, retraite progressive…). Ce faisant, les législateurs promeuvent un traitement de l’âge qui s’inscrit dans la problématique générale de la longévité humaine en Europe
Dealing with longer life expectancy and demographic deficit is currently a huge challenge for the social system of European member states. To face this challenge, it is necessary for legislators to develop a dedicated protection policy for the young people in a business relationship context and, at the same time, to redefine age limits policy especially in business relationship termination situation.. The presented study focuses on the factuality of the « age » concept. Based on cultural history, confirmed by the legislator analysis of the physiological aging, « age » criterion is closely linked to general principles in E.U. legislation like, for example, the human dignity and the equal treatment. However, the « age » criterion still remains ambivalent which is underlined by the non-discrimination principle. This ambiguity is emphasized in business relationships which leads to the influence of the « age » in an ending working life situation. This intergenerational pact support, which influence the proceed of the pension liquidation, is currently experiencing a revival beyond E.U. member state boundaries. A converging point is achieved in old-age treatment which leads to new solidarity development schemes inside companies (like for example the company occupational scheme). An important objective is to promote the pursuance of a professional activity in order to retire later (increasing in the statutory retirement age, increment or reduce of the retirement pension, restriction of derogations, proscription of business relationship breaches if they are based on age, …) and to redefine the connection between age and business relationships (combined work and retirement, phased retirement, …). By this way, legislators promote a human longevity based age treatment in Europe

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Merino, Salazar Pamela Alexandra 1978. "Trabajo y salud en América Latina y el Caribe a través de las encuestas de condiciones de trabajo, empleo y salud." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/463029.

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El objetivo de esta tesis fue analizar las encuestas de condiciones de trabajo, empleo y salud (ECTES) en América Latina, y elaborar una propuesta para mejorar su comparabilidad. Por un lado, se identificaron y examinaron las similitudes y diferencias en la metodología de las ECTES disponibles. Por otro lado, a través de un proceso de consenso, se desarrolló un cuestionario básico y unos criterios metodológicos para futuras ECTES en la región. Además, se analizaron los datos provenientes de estas encuestas en una muestra comparable de personas asalariadas no agrícolas con contrato escrito. Entre los resultados cabe destacar los siguientes: 1) las principales diferencias entre las ECTES son la población de referencia y el lugar de realización de la entrevista, 2) se identificaron algunos patrones de exposición a malas condiciones de empleo, trabajo y estado de salud de la población estudiada y 3) el consenso final incluyó un cuestionario sobre condiciones de trabajo, empleo y salud compuesto por 77 preguntas distribuidas en seis dimensiones; y unas recomendaciones metodológicas mínimas, como por ejemplo, realizar la entrevista en el domicilio de la persona en lugar de en el centro de trabajo. Estos resultados pueden contribuir a mejorar la calidad y comparabilidad de la información en salud laboral en la población trabajadora de América Latina y el Caribe.
This thesis aims to analyze the working conditions surveys (WCSs) in Latin America and to develop a proposal to improve the comparability of future surveys. First, we identified and examined the commonalities and differences in the methodologies of the WCSs available. Next, through a consensus process, a core questionnaire and basic methodological recommendations for future WCSs in the region were developed. In addition, we analyzed data from these surveys in a comparable sample of non-agricultural employees with written contract. Our findings can be summarized as follows: 1) WCSs in Latin America differed mainly in the covered population, the place of interview, and the question wording 2) some patterns of exposure to poor working and employment conditions, and health status were observed in the studied population 3) the final consensus included a core questionnaire for working, employment and health conditions, which comprises 77 questions organized in six dimensions, and main methodological recommendations such as conducting in-home interviews rather than workplace administered interviews. These results may contribute to improve occupational health surveillance in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Abregú, Naveros Wilma, and Condori Cinthia Rusmell Vicente. "La prevención del riesgo laboral y su influencia en el nivel de accidentes de trabajo de las empresas del Sector Textil, Lima Metropolitana 2020." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656670.

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La presente investigación tiene como propósito explicar la influencia de la prevención del riesgo laboral en el nivel de accidentes de trabajo de las empresas del Sector Textil, Lima Metropolitana 2020. El diseño de la investigación es no experimental de tipo transversal, porque se realiza sin manipular deliberadamente las variables y de alcance correlacional causal. Asimismo, la metodología que se aplicó para la recolección de datos en de enfoque cuantitativo. Para medir la opinión de los colaboradores, encargados de seguridad y salud en el trabajo del Sector Textil, en relación con las variables a estudiar y a sus referidas dimensiones, se elaboró un cuestionario tipo Likert. La confiabilidad del mencionado instrumento se determinó mediante el Coeficiente de Alfa de Cronbach (0.759) y su validación se obtuvo mendiante el juicio de expertos. De una población total de 35,739 empresas textiles, se determinó un muestreo aleatorio simple obteniendo 381 empresas. Según el análisis correlacional, existe evidencia estadística para sintetizar que la prevención de riesgo laboral y el nivel de accidentes de trabajo de las empresas del sector Textil en Lima Metropolitana están relacionados.
The purpose of this research is to explain the influence of occupational risk prevention on the level of occupational accidents in companies in the Textile sector, Lima Metropolitana 2020. The research design is non-experimental of a transversal type, because it is carried out without manipulating deliberately variables and causal correlational scope. Likewise, the methodology that was applied for data collection in a quantitative approach. To measure the opinion of the collaborators, those in charge of safety and health at work in the Textile Sector, in relation to the variables to be studied and their referred dimensions, a Likert-type questionnaire was prepared. The reliability of the aforementioned instrument was determined using Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient (0.759) and its validation was obtained through the judgment of experts. From a total population of 35,739 textile companies, a simple random sample was determined obtaining 381 companies. According to the correlational analysis, there is statistical evidence to synthesize that the prevention of occupational risk and the level of accidents at work in the companies of the Textile sector in Metropolitan Lima are related.
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Duignan, Patricia. "Dr. WHO?: The Science and Culture of Medical Wear Design." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3991.

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The multi-million-dollar medical uniform industry has not utilized advancements in garment and textile technology that could positively impact the protection of healthcare professionals and patients. In most cases the uniforms meet basic requirements – they clothe the professional in a recognizable way. Little innovation in design, function and performance, has been applied to these garments. This is particularly evident in the case of the stereotypical white lab coat worn by many physicians, despite evidence indicating that these lab coats may carry contamination and play a role in the spread of deadly bacteria. Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) are among the most serious problems facing modern medical care, costing millions of lives and dollars annually worldwide. This research investigates the design and use of the physician’s lab coat – an immediately recognizable symbol of Western medicine. The research identifies the medical, functional, cultural and symbolic roles of the lab coat within the hospital environment and beyond, to the larger the global society. This thesis examines the extent to which the design of medical wear can impact the effect of hospital-acquired infections, support doctor/patient relationships and enhance the performance and behavior of the healthcare professional by envisioning a future lab coat which offers increased protection for physician and patient, aids in communication and enhances the performance of the doctor by utilizing digital technologies incorporated into the lab coat whereby the lab coat becomes the only tool necessary for the physician.

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Hilleshein, Eunice Fabiani. "Capacidade para o trabalho de enfermeiros de um hospital universitário : interface entre o pessoal, o laboral e a promoção da saúde." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/28457.

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Trata-se de uma pesquisa quantitativa, com delineamento transversal a partir do levantamento de dados survey, que objetivou avaliar a capacidade para o trabalho de enfermeiros do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre RS e suas características laborais, hábitos de vida e as medidas de promoção da capacidade para o trabalho. Definiu-se como população do estudo enfermeiros em atividade no hospital. A amostra foi composta por 195 enfermeiros selecionados aleatoriamente. Foi utilizado o instrumento Índice de Capacidade para o Trabalho, validado no Brasil. A leitura dos dados foi realizada pelo Software Sphinx, sendo os mesmos convertidos para o SPSS, V.15 para análises estatísticas. Foram realizadas análises estatísticas descritivas e analíticas; utilizou-se confiança de 95%, a significância de 5%. Os dados mostram que 94,5% dos enfermeiros do hospital são do sexo feminino; com idade média de 42,6 anos (dp=8,5); 66,5% casados ou com companheiros; 76,7% possuem pós – graduação; 92,8% atuam diretamente na assistência. Quanto ao turno de trabalho 36,0% são da noite; 28,4% da manhã e 20,8% da tarde. Trabalham no hospital em média há 14,0 anos (dp=9,4), e no turno atual, em média, há 9,4 anos (dp=8,7), 87,4% dizem sentir-se satisfeitos freqüentemente, 56,8% sentem se valorizados, 85,2 %, não trabalha em outra instituição e estão 70,0% satisfeitos com o seu salário. O escore médio de ICT dos enfermeiros atingiu 41,8 pontos e houve correlação significativa com a remuneração (p-valor<0,05). Há evidências de diferença estatística do ICT médio relacionado à satisfação com o local de trabalho (p-valor=0,001), sentimento de valorização por parte da instituição (p-valor=0,003), e turno de trabalho (p-valor= 0,032). Os aspectos laborais que apresentaram associação com o ICT médio foram: sobrecarga de trabalho (p-valor=0,001), reconhecimento do trabalho real (p-valor=0,003), reconhecimento profissional (p-valor=0,001), comunicação no ambiente de trabalho (p-valor=0,042), possibilidade de tomar decisões com tempo suficiente (p-valor=0,005), possibilidade de fazer melhorias no esquema de trabalho (p-valor=0,001), e número suficiente de pessoas na escala (p-valor=0,050). Constatou-se diferença significativa para o ICT médio do grupo de enfermeiros que realiza programas e atividades em família (p-valor=0,009). Houve diferença significativa para o ICT médio entre os tipos de doenças digestivas, psiquiátricas e geniturinárias (p-valor<0,05). Em relação às medidas sugeridas para melhorar a capacidade para o trabalho, o grupo de enfermeiros com ICT moderado relatou maior número de medidas quando comparado com o grupo que apresentou escores bom e ótimo. Os grupos com capacidade para o trabalho bom ou ótimo apresentaram semelhanças em relação às medidas relatadas. A população de enfermeiros apresentou perfil sociodemográfico e estilo de vida diferenciado, com elevado padrão de saúde e capacidade para o trabalho.
This is a quantitative research, with a cross-sectional delineation from the compilation of the survey data, which aimed to evaluate the work ability of nurses of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre RS and labor characteristics, lifestyle and promotional measures that promote the capacity to work. The study’s population was the nurses in activity at the hospital. The sample consisted of 195 randomly selected nurses. The study used the Work Ability Index, validated in Brazil. The reading of data was performed by Sphinx Software, and they were converted to SPSS V.15 for statistical analysis. There were made descriptive statistics and analytical analysis, we used 95% confidence, the significance of 5%. The data show that 94.5% of hospital nurses are female, with an average age of 42.6 years (SD = 8.5), 66.5% married or with partners, 76.7% have a post - graduate, 92.8% work directly with assistance. As for the shift work, 36.0% work at night, 28.4% in the morning and 20.8% in the afternoon. Working in the hospital for an average of 14.0 years (SD = 9.4), and the current turn, on average, for 9.4 years (SD = 8.7), 87.4% say they feel pleased often, 56.8% feel valued, 85.2%, does not work at another institution and 70.0% are satisfied with their salary. The average score of WAI of nurses reached 41.8 points and had significant correlation with payment (p <0.05). There are evidences of statistical difference of the medium WAI related to satisfaction with the workplace (p = 0.001), feelings of appreciation from the institution (p = 0.003), and shift work (p = 0.032). The labor aspects that were associated with the WAI average were: work overload (p = 0.001), recognition of the real work (p = 0.003), professional recognition (p = 0.001), communication in the workplace (p-value = 0.042), possibility to make decisions with enough time (p = 0.005), possibility to make improvements to the work scheme (p = 0.001), and enough people working (p-value = 0.050). It was found a significant difference for the medium WAI of the group of nurses who carry out family programs and activities (p = 0.009). There was a significant difference in the medium WAI between types of digestive diseases, psychiatric and genitourinary (p <0.05). Regarding the measures suggested to improve the ability to work, the group of nurses with moderate WAI reported more measures when compared with the group that the scores showed good or excellent. The groups with the ability to work good or excellent had some similarities in the measurements reported. The population of nurses showed a sociodemographic profile and distinctive lifestyle with high standard of health and work ability.
Esta es una encuesta cuantitativa, de corte transversal de los datos de la encuesta, que tiene por objeto evaluar la capacidad para el trabajo de las enfermeras del Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, RS y características del trabajo, estilo de vida y medidas de promoción capacidad de trabajo. Se define como el estudio de las enfermeras de la población en la actividad hospitalaria. La muestra consistió de 195 enfermeras seleccionadas al azar. El estudio utilizó el Índice de la Capacidad de Trabajo(ICT), validado en Brasil. La lectura de los datos se realizó mediante la Esfinge de software, y se convierten en V.15 SPSS para el análisis estadístico. Se analizaron con estadística descriptiva y analítica, que utilizó el 95% de confianza, la significación del 5%. Los datos muestran que el 94,5% de las enfermeras de hospicio son mujeres, con una edad media de 42,6 años (SD= 8,5), el 66,5% casados o con los socios, el 76,7% tenían un post - grado , el 92,8% trabaja directamente con la atención. En cuanto al cambio son 36.0% de la noche, el 28,4% y 20,8% en la tarde por la mañana. Trabajo en el hospital por un promedio de 14,0 años (SD=9,4), y el turno actual, en promedio, 9,4 años (SD=8,7), 87,4% dicen que se sienten felices con frecuencia 56,8% se sienten valorados, el 85,2%, no funciona en otra institución y el 70,0% están satisfechos con su salario. La puntuación media de Lo ICT de las enfermeras alcanzó 41.8 puntos y correlación significativa con goce de sueldo (p <0,05). No hay evidencia de diferencia estadística de ICT decir respecto a la satisfacción con el trabajo (p = 0,001), los sentimientos de aprecio por parte de la institución (p = 0,003), y el trabajo por turnos (p = 0,032) . Los aspectos del mercado de trabajo que se asociaron con la media de los ICT fueron: sobrecarga de trabajo (p = 0,001), el reconocimiento del trabajo real (p = 0,003), el reconocimiento profesional (p = 0,001), la comunicación en el lugar de trabajo (p-valor = 0,042), capacidad de tomar decisiones con suficiente tiempo (p = 0,005), la capacidad de introducir mejoras en el esquema de trabajo (p = 0,001), y bastante gente en la escala (valor de p = 0.050). Se encontró una diferencia significativa para el grupo ICT promedio de enfermeras que lleva a cabo programas y actividades de la familia (p = 0,009). Hubo una diferencia significativa entre los tipos ICT promedio de las enfermedades digestivas, psiquiátricas y genitourinarias (p <0,05). Para las medidas sugeridas para mejorar la capacidad de trabajo, el grupo de enfermeras com ICT informó de las medidas más moderadas en comparación con el grupo que mostró resultados buenos o excelentes. Los grupos con la capacidad de trabajo bueno o muy bueno había algunas similitudes en las mediciones reportadas. La población de enfermeras mostró diferencias sociodemográficas y de estilo de vida con el máximo nivel de capacidad de la salud y el trabajo.

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Capron, Sophie. "La responsabilité sociale des entreprises à la lumière de la santé et de la sécurité au travail." Thesis, Paris 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA020029.

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La préservation de la santé et de la sécurité du travailleur est aujourd'hui dans le langage de la gestion, du management et progressivement des juristes, liée au concept de « responsabilité sociale d’entreprise ». Les employeurs doivent en tenir compte dans leurs décisions pour tenter de s'assurer l’adhésion des salariés et contribuer à la préservation d’un environnement plus sain. Ces idées, dont les contours manquent parfois de précision, intègrent progressivement le droit positif. Ainsi, à l’aune de son obligation de sécurité de résultat, dont la violation présente le caractère de faute inexcusable, il incombe à l’employeur, en cas de lien du préjudice subi avec le travail, une réparation allant jusqu’à s’étendre aux préjudices jadis exclus par le livre IV du Code de la sécurité sociale. Il est possible de considérer qu'il s'agit d'une rupture de l’équilibre du régime accordant le bénéfice d’une présomption d’imputabilité au salarié, en contrepartie d’une réparation uniquement forfaitaire, avec éventuellement un complément en cas de faute inexcusable. On peut se demander si au-delà des contraintes normatives qui l’y obligent, l’employeur ne doit adopter un «management de la santé » destinée à assurer le fonctionnement immédiat de l'entreprise et à terme la pérennité de son capital humain
To save health and safety at work is today, in the language of the management and step-by-step of lawyers, bound with the notion of “corporate social responsibility”. Beyond legal pressures progressively integrated in the positive law, employers must take care about them in their decisions to have the adhesion of employees and to contribute to the conservation of a healthy environment. Goals are as those including by the “triple bottom line” of Elkington (economic, social and legal), as those corresponding to the logic via media and politicians with the management of the appearance of the firm. In addition, it’s possible to ask you: how long can we continue to have a balance about responsibility and reparation around health and safety? How firms can succeed with taking care about interests of actual and future employees too? The answer ask you to study how France choose a “corporate social responsibility” with an important place for the State in opposition of what could be prefered by some authors. But the problem is that this system can be excessively interpreted by Judges. They often accept the responsibility of the employer in cases while it’s not sure that he (or the activity of the firm) created the risk. In addition, the French “corporate social responsibility” can’t be adapted enough and quickly as it’s necessary concerning health and safety at work. That is why, you must see if other ways can been more satisfying. They can be with the same persons (employers and employees or their representatives) or with others stakeholders. It don’t mean that the State can’t be have a role in the “corporate social responsibility” about health and safety at work. But it’s important to see if it can be interesting to give firms possibilities to act voluntarily and ask you if we have to change the repartition of powers concerning this questions in France. An independent control of results must be planned

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Jackson, Marna. "Strategies for inspection and enforcement of occupational health and safety legislation." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/540.

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Major changes have occurred in the workplace in the past decades. Technology has changed dramatically, innovative ways of utilising nuclear power have been developed, new chemicals have been introduced to the market and the adverse effects of other chemicals on both human health and safety and the environment have been discovered. This has influenced the nature of the workforce itself. Regulators in the different jurisdictions were required to react to the challenges that these changes represent. This thesis explores the responses in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Republic of South Africa by identifying the occupational safety and health (OSH) regulations, administration, enforcement and penalties which have been put in place to address the above mentioned challenges. It is impossible to mention all the changes in the workforce and workplace that have occurred in the recent years, and this thesis therefore focuses on the possibilities that different types of regulation offer to address some of these changes. Alterations to existing approaches are proposed to ensure that enforcement is improved and better targeted. The utilisation of third parties as surrogate regulators is also addressed. The central theme of this thesis is how the law can stimulate self-regulation by adopting a Safety Management System (SMS) within enterprises to encourage “self-critical reflection about their OHS performance”. The purpose of criminal sanctions in occupational safety and health regulation, the role of the prosecution in the enforcement of OSH strategies and the possibility of combining prosecutions of corporations with prosecutions of individual managers and directors who are responsible for non-compliance with OSH standards are also addressed. Although it is most important to ensure that workers are not injured or do not contract occupational diseases, in practice this does unfortunately happen. Therefore this thesis also discusses the compensation of injured workers.
Professor D. S. de Villiers

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Huang, I.-Tung, and 黃奕東. "A Study of Facilities liability in Civil law- Center Around Occupational Safety and Health Act." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84152625667621970692.

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國立臺北大學
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In general, when mentioning facility liability, we’ll connect it with State Compensation Law. State Compensation Law separates the state compensation into two types which are the responsibility of employee of the Government (responsibility of human) and the responsibility of the installation of government-owned public facility(responsibility of things). In contract, facility liability has rarely been mentioned in Civil Law. Nevertheless, facility liability was specially enacted in Chapter two of Occupational Safety and Health Act. Besides, one of the effects of violation of Occupational Safety and Health Act is returning to the claiming of the damage in Civil Law. It is intriguing that how will facility liability display while reflecting it on Civil Law. This research will discuss the contents of facility liability in tort law, contract law and Occupational Safety and Health Act, and discuss the damage of facility liability in the end from the aspects of the facts of the damage from the lacking of protection equipment and the function of Occupational Safety and Health Act in Civil Law. By the opportunity of the amendment of Occupational Safety and Health Act in 2013, this research attempts to wholly examine facility liability from the establishing of facility liability to the scope of damage based on the regulation of Civil Law and makes it a reference to how to deal with the damage from the defects of the facility.

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Giesbrecht, Matthew. "Canadian corporate criminal liability in workplace fatalities: evaluating Bill C-45." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/5240.

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The purpose of this research is to examine the effectiveness of the Bill C-45 amendments to the Criminal Code in addressing workplace fatality incidents. This research involved both qualitative and quantitative research and utilized two research methods. The first method involved a secondary analysis of thirty-eight Incident Investigation Reports completed by WorkSafeBC. These were supplemented with additional case information about these incidents provided via the Freedom of Information offices in British Columbia. The second method utilized nine semi-structured interviews with respondents in the field of occupational health and safety and corporate criminality who were familiar with the Bill C-45 amendments. The study found that employers could be found liable in half of the cases examined; that there appeared to be unique characteristics of British Columbia that effect the use of criminal charges; that the criminal law is not very effective in cases of criminal negligence for workplace fatality; and that improvements could be made to the criminal law.

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Mabapa, Ntshole Hermina Keneilwe. "A critical analysis of legislative and other measures in place to ensure a work environment that is not harmful to the health and wellbeing of employees in South Africa." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/959.

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Thesis (LLM. (Development and Management)) -- University of Limpopo, 2012
Occupational health, safety and wellbeing of employees is an important factor in the socioeconomic development of a country hence the need for South Africa as a developmental state, to give priority to the health and safety of employees in the country as employees are key to socio-economic development. The right to an environment that is not detrimental to the health and wellbeing of employees is also entrenched in the Constitution of the Republic making it a fundamental right which should be enjoyed by all. Laws related to occupational health and safety have been enacted in South Africa with a view to, on the one hand, prevent occupational injuries, diseases or deaths and on the other hand to provide compensation where such occurs. This study seeks to determine which of the laws are applicable, whether they are reasonable when compared to the constitutional requirements and South Africa’s obligations as a member of the international community. Comparisons are also made with other countries and recommendations made for the South African government to adequately ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of employees in the country.

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Maseko, Maud Moditja. "Effects of non-compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act (No. 85 of 1993) among the food and beverage industries in selected provinces of South Africa." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21042.

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It is essential for both employers and employees to know and understand their obligations and rights about occupational health and safety. The study aimed at developing guidelines for the managers of health and safety programmes to promote compliance with OHS Act (No. 85 of 1993) among the food and beverage industry in South Africa. The study sites were from the four selected provinces of South Africa, with twenty three of them located in the Gauteng Province. A quantitative research method which is descriptive in nature was used to obtain in-depth knowledge on compliance to the health and safety legislation. Data was collected from 27 study sites using an inspection checklist and an interview- led questionnaire for the 202 employees. Data was analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21. Most employees on the study sites were young and therefore needed regular supervision, information, instruction and training to promote safe work and reduce injury and diseases. The study sites were male dominated. It emerged that there was general lack of consultation and communication with regards to health and safety matters between the employers and the employees. It was also noted that most study sites did not have a written and conspicuously placed health and safety policy and the OHS Act No. 85 of 1993. Majority of the study sites did not deploy adequate resources to manage problems related to health and safety at work and reduce their incidence. In addition, employees experienced injuries or illnesses at one point or the other as they were exposed to various occupational hazards. Finally, most study sites had poor housekeeping practices. Employers did not have the appropriate control measures, such as baseline risk assessments, in place. This placed employees at an increased risk of injuries and illnesses as well as the possibility of employers facing financial burdens such as higher compensation claims, medical specialist fees, fees involved in the replacement of injured employees or fees for the recruitment and training of new recruits.
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Samuel, Oluranti Sunday. "Environmental and sociological factors as determinants of occupational health and safety of workers in selected small and medium scale enterprises in Lagos State, Nigeria." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22669.

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Work is an essential activity that provides goods or services of value to oneself and others. Paradoxically, in a bid for self-realisation, workers are seriously endangered. Work-related or induced diseases and stresses pose serious threats to workers’ health and the general well-being, hence, the need to seriously consider the issue of occupational health and safety of workers. In terms of safety at work, the experience of small and medium scale enterprises (SMSEs) worldwide is that of neglect. Their incomes are very low and uncertain, coupled with high levels of risk and hazard in their work, with little or no social protection coverage (Chen, 2008). This study therefore examines how environmental and sociological factors determine occupational health and safety of workers in SMSEs in Lagos State, Nigeria. Ulrich Beck “Risk Society” theory, Political Economy of Health framework (PEH) (Minkler et al 1994, Linnan et al, 2001) and Labour Process Theory (LPT) (Braverman, 1974; Marx, 1976; Bottome, 1991) underpinned the study. The study adopts both the qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection. The qualitative method includes field observation of the selected workplaces, six Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and eight In-depth interviews (IDIs). The quantitative involved the use of structured questionnaire. The sample survey involved 180 respondents in a multi-stage sampling technique from purposively selected sawmills, mechanic villages and blacksmith cottages in three Local Government Areas in Lagos State. The quantitative data analysis uses simple percentile and univariate analyses, while the qualitative data are content-analysed, based on the objectives of the study. The findings identified low level of education (60.5%), and poor awareness of OHS in SMSEs (86.1%). It further reveals poor physical (69.5%) and technological environment (70.5%), unavailability of OHS facilities (60.5%) and prevention methods by manager/owners (60.5%), carefree attitudes of workers/managers/owners to OHS (69.5), non-acquaintance of workers to OHS laws (86.1%), workers’ economic incapacitation to deal with issues of occupational hazard (76.1%), lack of enforcement of OHS (88.3%), and transferring knowledge on OHS (82.2%) in the selected SMSEs. The study recommends roles for managers/owners, workers, trade associations, government, non-governmental organisations to promote effective OHS in the selected SMSEs.
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Keim, Morane. "De l'accident du travail à la maladie : la métamorphose du risque professionnel : enjeux et perspectives." Thesis, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013STRAA022.

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La métamorphose du risque professionnel puise ses sources dans la mutation de la représentation du risque professionnel factuel qui a permis la consécration de la notion de maladie professionnelle. Substituée à l’accident du travail comme centre de gravité du droit des risques professionnels, elle devient le point d’impulsion d’une réflexion nouvelle du concept juridique de risque professionnel entraînant la mutation du risque professionnel pris en charge. Cette métamorphose, dans le droit de la Sécurité sociale, permet la réactivation de l’obligation de sécurité de l’employeur qui irradie le droit du travail et entraîne l’affirmation du droit à la santé et à la sécurité des travailleurs. Partant, la réparation des atteintes à la santé du travailleur est considérablement étendue. Néanmoins, cette construction se heurte à des obstacles de taille, et s’accompagne d’incohérences, qu’il faut dépasser
The metamorphosis of occupational hazard has its sources in the mutation of the representation of factual occupational hazard that led to the consecration of the notion of occupational disease. Substituted for the occupational accident as the centre of gravity of the occupational hazards law, it becomes the impetus for a new reflection about the legal concept of occupational hazard causing the mutation of occupational hazard taken charge of. This metamorphosis in the Social Security law, allows the reactivation of the employer's duty to ensure security that radiates labour law and causes the assertion of the workers’ right to health and safety. Therefore, the compensation of damages to workers’ health is considerably extended. However, this construction is fraught with obstacles, and is accompanied by inconsistencies that must be overcome

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Kapounová, Gabriela. "Bezpečnost a ochrana zdraví při práci na oddělení intenzivní péče." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-335233.

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The diploma thesis concentrates on the topic of occupational health and safety of healthcare workers in intensive care unit. The main topic of the theoretical part is the definition of the term occupational health and safety, summarization of its contents and clarification of the law regulation concerning subject. The main purpose of the empiric part is to find out whether the healthcare employees that work in intensive care unit follow the principles of occupational health and safety. The research questions are supposed to find out how thoroughly are these principles followed, whether the staff is sufficiently informed about occupational health and safety, what are the most frequent causes of its violation and if the staff knows their risk that come from breaking the rules of health and safety principles. Furthermore these questions should find out, which positive factors influence the following of occupational health and safety on the intensive unit workplace. The questions also research, whether the healthcare management has set good training and inspection of adhering to occupational health and safety rules. The data needed to come up with the previously mentioned results have been processed in the form of qualitative and quantitative research. The statistic evaluation is done though the...

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Mendes, Marlene Alexandra Ferreira. "O risco no âmbito do direito da segurança, higiene e saúde ocupacionais." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/133015.

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Tese com vista à obtenção do grau de Doutora em Direito pela Nova School of Law
A presente dissertação intitulada “O risco no âmbito do Direito da Segurança, Higiene e Saúde Ocupacionais” procura conceptualizar o risco profissional, ao nível do Direito da União Europeia, no seio da disciplina jurídica que visa a melhoria do ambiente de trabalho, a fim de proteger a saúde e a segurança dos trabalhadores no trabalho. No âmbito desta disciplina argumenta-se que não se cuida só de garantir que não ocorram acidentes de trabalho e doenças profissionais mas também de melhorar as condições de trabalho, para evitar circunstâncias que ponham em perigo a saúde da pessoa trabalhadora, e defende-se um direito individual à saúde da pessoa trabalhadora no trabalho que beneficie do regime aplicável aos direitos, liberdades e garantias. Propõe-se a autonomização do Direito da Saúde e da Segurança no Trabalho como um ramo de Direito autónomo constituído pelas múltiplas e diferenciadas normas que regem os riscos profissionais e através do qual se estabelece uma base de regulação comum, de natureza preventiva, sobre os riscos profissionais que tem por objeto a execução de medidas preventivas e protetivas que visem eliminar e/ou reduzir os riscos profissionais e por objetivo a proteção da saúde da pessoa trabalhadora no trabalho, enquanto direito fundamental. No seio do Direito da Saúde e da Segurança no Trabalho, observa-se a tipologia de risco(s) positivados e, numa perspectiva transdisciplinar, analisa-se quais as perspectivas do risco que influenciam o Direito. Reconhece-se uma matriz cientificada e objetivada impressa nos riscos profissionais e subjacente ao Direito (por influência da Ciência) e que a atual Sociedade do Risco Ocupacional induz uma (re)caracterização dos riscos profissionais. Apresenta-se uma proposta de conceptualização do risco profissional e identificam-se os princípios jurídicos à luz dos quais o Direito da Saúde e da Segurança no Trabalho, do século XXI, prosseguirá a regulação dos riscos profissionais (na sua máxima amplitude) e estruturará a prevenção centrada na pessoa humana e na efetiva proteção da saúde da pessoa trabalhadora no trabalho.
The present dissertation “Risk in the Safety and Health at Work Law” intends to conceptualize professional risks, in the European Union Law that regulates work environment with the objective of protecting workers‟ health and safety in the workplace. In this legal framework it is argued that worker´s health at workplace is an individual right and that the aim of the law is to increase work conditions and not only to ensure that work accidents and occupational diseases will not occur. This european law establishes a common and preventive regulatory basis in which various and different legal norms regulate the professional risks. The aim is to protect a fundamental right: the worker‟s health at work, and for that purpose it ensures that preventive and protective measures, through which it is possible to eliminate or to reduce the professional risks, are adopted. In fact, all these legal norms compose an autonomous area/branch of law: the Health and Safety at Work Law. In Health and Safety at Work Law there is not a general definition of risk, but it is possible to observe that there are different types of risks. And so, it is necessary to analyze the concept of risk in other sciences and find in which of them the law has found its basis. As a result it is possible to find a scientific and objective basis in the law and in the regulation of occupational risks (by influence of science) but it is also recognized that the present occupational risk society requires a (re)characterization of occupational risks. As a result it is necessary to conceptualize professional risks in the present and for the future. It is proposed a professional risk conceptualization and a restructured prevention based in the human individual and in the effective protection of worker‟s health at work that should be guaranteed by Health and Safety at Work Law in accordance with its principles.

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Lai, Tzu-Huei, and 賴姿卉. "Comparison study of laws of occupational safety and health between the cross-strait." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14129391304174041288.

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嘉南藥理科技大學
產業安全衛生與防災研究所
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In this research the study focused on the differences of laws of occupational safety and health between the Cross-strait. First, we made the comparison to the safety and health management of government organization by schema aspects. The highest government Department in Taiwan is the executive yuan and in China continental is the State Council. China continental apparently pay the mostly attention on the mine security part, and Taiwan is focused on education and labor safety and health. And the safety and health management system in institutions in Taiwan also more fine than in China continental. The safety and health management system in institutions in Taiwan was divided into three class, first class career of institutions (significantly risk career), second class career of institutions (medium risk career), and third class career of institutions (low risk career), it should set safety and health qualified person according to the provisions of Article. Alternately, in China continental there were only divided into two categories, 300 people above and below. And the certificate licenses system was less perfect than the Taiwan system. In China continental most safety and health management persons are trained by training & education center and getting qualify. It is really different with Taiwan, In China continental the education & training centers are divided into four levels. The last difference of safety and health management education & training system is in Taiwan the education & training institutions is monitored by the Council Of Labor Affairs Executive Yuan, but in China continental was consistent by the State Council, and education & training system is handling by enterprise itself, this species education & training system between enterprise may foster its abilities fulfilled the enterprise’s needs.

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Allen, Danielle. "“For here or to go?” Migrant workers and the enforcement of workplace rights in Canada: temporary foreign workers in the British Columbia hospitality sector." Thesis, 2017. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8575.

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Why do temporary foreign workers employed in the British Columbia hospitality sector have difficulty enforcing their workplace rights? Using the themes of people, place and time, this thesis explores the demand and supply of migrant workers in the British Columbia hospitality sector, and the challenges temporary foreign workers face at the intersection of immigration law, employment law, occupational health and safety law, and workers’ compensation law. The thesis argues that the low-skilled Temporary Foreign Worker Program shifts the negative consequences of unfair working conditions and workplace health and safety risks over people, place and time: from Canadian workers and employers onto temporary foreign workers; from Canada to elsewhere; and from the present into the future. Workplace rights are not enough for hospitality sector workers, what is needed is better tools for the enforcement of those rights.
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Silva, José Diogo Felix da. "A Segurança e Saúde do Trabalhador em tempo de Pandemia: Um olhar sobre a prevenção e responsabilidade na relação laboral." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/97531.

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Dissertação de Mestrado em Direito apresentada à Faculdade de Direito
A presença da Covid-19 veio alterar as circunstâncias normais do mundo que nós conhecemos. De forma a acrescentar noções e instruções importantes sobre as consequências deste vírus e doença contagiosa no seio daquilo que é relação laboral portuguesa, o conteúdo desta dissertação reflete-se sobre a segurança e saúde do trabalhador na prática laboral, bem como a responsabilidade sobre o incumprimento deste direito do subordinado profissional. Partindo da ideia, cada vez mais marcante na relação laboral, dos princípios de prevenção e precaução, destacamos estes conceitos como fatores que se devem sentir, aquando na determinação de medidas e preocupações para a proteção do trabalhador, associado à prevenção dos novos perigos e riscos profissionais, originados pela pandemia. Neste sentido, é nos incumbido um estudo sobre o ordenamento português e a forma como este constitui resposta favoráveis, no sentido de proteger os seus trabalhadores e tecer determinados comentários sobre a criação de novas regras com o prepósito de proteger estes. Deve ser assim, um papel tripartido, entre os sujeitos empregadores, trabalhadores, e Governo, de cooperarem-se entre si, criando normas, respeitando essas, e controlando o cumprimento dessas regras jurídicas, originado as melhores circunstâncias para uma prestação laboral segura e saudável. Apesar de considerámos, uma vez mais, o papel importante do empregador na proteção da segurança e higiene, partindo desta característica preventiva para a proteção, no seu local de trabalho desta doença profissional, terminamos aqui na sua obrigação de reparação dos danos sofridos pelos seus subordinados, que podem ser agravados devido à omissão das condutas previstas na lei, incumprimento do art. 18º da LAT, na orientação de estabelecer esses deveres de cuidado para os subordinados laborais.
Covid-19's presence changed the normal circumstances of the world we know. In order to add important notions and instructions about the consequences of this virus and contagious disease within what is the portuguese employment relationship, the content of this dissertation reflects on the safety and health of the worker in labor practice, as well as the responsibility for non-compliance of this right of the professional subordinate. Based on the idea, increasingly striking in the labor relationship, of the principles of prevention and precaution, we highlight these concepts as factors that should be felt when determining measures and concerns for the protection of the worker, associated with the prevention of new dangers and risks professionals, caused by the pandemic. In this sense, we are in charge of a study on the portuguese legal system and the way in which it constitutes a favorable response, in the sense of protecting its workers and making certain comments about the creation of new rules with the purpose of protecting its workers. It should thus be a tripartite role between employers, workers, and the Government, to cooperate with each other, creating standards, respecting these, and controlling compliance, creating the best circumstances for a safe and healthy labor provision. Although we considered, once again, the important role of the employer in the protection of safety and hygiene, starting from this preventive characteristic to the protection, in their workplace from this occupational disease, we end here with their obligation to repair the damage suffered by their subordinates , which may be aggravated due to the omission of the conduct provided for by law, non-compliance with art. 18 of the LAT, in order to establish these duties of care for labor subordinates.

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