Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Making Sense of Construction Improvement provides a critical evaluation of the construction improvement debate from the end of the Second World War through to the modern era.

A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques.

Most people spend at least 40 hours a week in the office, and constant deadlines, heavy workloads, and daily dilemmas can make working a stressful experience.

Roadwork: Theory and Practice, now in its sixth edition, gives the essential information needed by every road worker, highway technician, incorporated, graduate or chartered engineer, not only by explaining the theory of road construction and its associated activities, but by illustrating its application with practical working methods that are in use in everyday engineering practice.

According to 2011 Census of India, out of 1.

(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance.

This book comprehensively reviews the considerations of nanotechnology elaborated in philosophy, ethics, and the social sciences and systematizes and develops them further.

In industrialised countries, musculo-skeletrical disorders of the upper limbs represent one of the commonest work-related diseases.

Once Upon a Car is the brilliantly reported inside-the-boardrooms-and-factories story of Detroit’s fight for survival, going beyond the headlines to chronicle how the country’s Big Three auto companies—General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler—teetered on the brink of collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.

Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles.

This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail.

With definitions from areas such as toxicology, industrial hygiene, environmental compliance, environmental engineering, and occupational medicine the Lewis Dictionary of Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health contains THE MOST definitions for the words, related phrases, and terms encountered in these fields.

The Blame Machine describes how disasters and serious accidents result from recurring, but potentially avoidable, human errors.

This pathbreaking study examines the radical Left in Puerto Rico from the final years of Spanish colonial rule into the 1920s.

Corporate social responsibility has gained substantial traction in recent decades but many still struggle with conveying the importance of integrating ethics and environmental and social values within the demands of a business world understandably concerned with making profit.

This highly-readable account of the nature of the hazards presented by ionizing radiation and the methods of protection is an ideal introductory text for those new to the field, and for the non-specialist.

In this new work, political theorist Michael J.

Some 70,000 hazardous materials are in various workplaces across the country.

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history.

Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia's contentious twentieth-century history.

This book explores the representation of women and their interests in the world of work across four trade unions in France and the UK.

In All I Want Is a Job!

This book describes psychosocial working conditions that negatively impact the mental and physical well-being of employees of various "e;assistance-related"e; professional groups, as well as individuals whose work is related to contact with demanding clients.

What do seat belts, life jackets and anti-jack knife technology have in common?

In 2009, cabin crew in the BASSA union embarked on a historic, two-year battle against British Airways which was seeking to impose reduced crew levels and to transform working conditions.

The 2000 edition of this long running and highly respected series, contains the best papers from the Ergonomics Society Annual Conference in 2000.

Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered.

Molten Salt Reactors and Thorium Energy, Second Edition is a fully updated comprehensive reference on the latest advances in MSR research and technology.

There have been numerous accounts exploring the relationship between institutions and firm practices.

This book addresses the reliability, risk, and safety issues of real industrial systems with application of the latest reliability and risk-based modeling.

The #1 Guide to Flight Physiology_Now Updated and Expanded with the Latest INSIGHTS for ENHANCING AIRCREW SAFE PERFORMANCE!

Fast Reactors: A Solution to Fight Against Global Warming presents the current status of fast-reactor nuclear generation technology, with a focus on ecology and sustainability benefits for the future.

Most scholarship on corporate governance in the last two decades has focused on the relationships between shareholders and managers or directors.

Common safety paradigms, the author argues, hamper the progress of safety in the workplace, contributing to the more than four million serious injuries Americans suffer at work each year and to the rising work injury rate worldwide.

The rise in standards of living throughout the U.

Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade.

The tenth of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Communications Sector Protection and Homeland Security is an eye-opening account and an important reference source of a complex sector.

As the great American work-benefit experiment erodes, companies are increasingly asking people to take responsibility for managing their own health.

The Handbook of U.

To date, most research on immigrant women and labor forces has focused on the participation of immigrant women on formal labor markets.

In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a blockbuster 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally Field in the title role.

This much anticipated new edition provides employers and employees with a day-to-day guide to reducing accidents and injuries, ensuring compliance, avoiding fines and penalties, and controlling workers' compensation costs.

Workers and their families, employers, and society as a whole benefit when providers deliver the best quality of care to injured workers and when they know how to provide effective services for both prevention and fitness for duty and understand why, instead of just following regulations.

Society at large tends to misunderstand what safety is all about.

Exposure to a wide variety of chemicals and drugs has become common in industrial, laboratory, and even household environments.

The book provides a data-driven approach to real-world crew resource management (CRM) applicable to commercial pilot performance.

First, Canada's primary source for immigrants has shifted dramatically from the United Kingdom and Europe to countries outside Europe.