Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

In the process of nation building, the health of the working population becomes a key factor.

In this book, a methodology integrating qualitative reasoning and bond graphs is developed to construct intelligent supervisory control systems.

One critical barrier leading to successful implementation of flexible manufacturing and related automated systems is the ever-increasing complexity of their modeling, analysis, simulation, and control.

This book presents a powerful hybrid intelligent system based on fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms and related intelligent techniques.

Soft computing is a branch of computing which, unlike hard computing, can deal with uncertain, imprecise and inexact data.

Parallel processing is a very important technique for improving the performance of various software development and maintenance activities.

This volume presents recent research in reliability and quality theory and its applications by many leading experts in the field.

Over the past several years, cooperative control and optimization have increasingly played a larger and more important role in many aspects of military sciences, biology, communications, robotics, and decision making.

This review volume is devoted to a discussion of analogies and differences of complex production systems - natural, as in biological cells, or man-made, as in economic systems or industrial production.

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

Since 2012, industrial overcapacity has become an increasingly serious problem in China, against the backdrop of domestic economic slowdown and continued downturn in international markets.

What is the scope and what are the limits of research in industrial relations?

Latest Edition: Textbook of Occupational Medicine Practice (4th Edition)This book provides a link between occupational health and clinical practice.

Safety has become very important because each year a vast number of people die due to workplace and other accidents.

This book takes a very practical approach to radiation protection and presents very readable information for anyone working in the radiation field or with radioactive material.

This book takes a systems-thinking approach to allow readers to understand how Workplace safety and health (WSH) is an integral part of any organisation.

This book contains the 9th Inaugural Lecture Series 2018 of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, delivered by Dafe Otobo on 4 July 2018.

Para la preparación del presente libro se conformaron grupos multidisciplinarios de investigadores provenientes de diferentes instituciones públicas, académicas y científicas.

La presente obra está cimentada en las reflexiones sobre la posible aplicación de los principios del pensamiento complejo en el mundo actual de sector educativo, la salud y los aportes a la salud familiar, comunitaria y territorial en un marco ético vigente; no sin antes considerar los aportes del período antiguo de la humanidad.

Los PGSBC han tenido conceptual y prácticamente un desarrollo que los ha convertido, de ser solo una herramienta de observación y retroalimentación, a ser un componente de los sistemas de gestión con múltiples oportunidades de interactuar con el resto de los componentes de los sistemas, con una potencialidad de involucrar a la gerencia y de construir interacciones entre todos los actores de una organización que faciliten el perfeccionamiento de la cultura de la seguridad de las mismas.

Este libro tiene como objetivo reiterar los conceptos académicos y científicos que han demostrado que la vida es Economía y Salud, y que estas son indisolubles, porque son  una entidad como los bípedos, que necesitan de dos piernas para caminar, o el tren, que requiere de dos rieles para rodar.

El texto que se pone a consideración para los lectores no se constituye en una verdad absoluta sobre los riesgos psicosociales, sino en una serie de elementos que pueden servir como fundamento para el desarrollo de procesos de investigación, reflexión o generación de un nuevo conocimiento que pueda dar respuesta a una serie de problemáticas o dudas por parte de los administradores, psicólogos, profesionales en salud y seguridad en el trabajo, investigadores o personas interesadas en abordar temas relacionados con los riesgos psicosociales de los empleados de cualquier tipo de organización, sea esta pública o privada.

En este libro se acopia la normatividad básica y la Guía Técnica para que cualquier empresa u organización con trabajadores que opere en el territorio colombiano de cumplimiento al mandato legal de aplicar el Sistema de Gestión de la Seguridad y Salud en Trabajo (SGSST) como parte integral del Sistema General de Riesgos Laborales y de la Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo.

Después de muchos años de consultoría y asesoría empresarial en busca de una herramienta para el cambio de los programas de salud en el trabajo, desde el pensamiento lineal al sistémico, nace la obra: Sistema de gestión de riesgos en Seguridad y salud en el trabajo, paso a paso, como una alternativa de solución para encontrar una guía práctica que asegure el éxito de las organizaciones.

Con la aplicación efectiva del manual de calificación de pérdida de capacidad laboral y ocupacional, evidenciamos que es una herramienta de capital importancia para la valoración del daño de la población colombiana.

El estudio del trabajo es una necesidad fundamental para cualquier persona que realice una actividad productiva, pero también es indispensable para las organizaciones de cualquier tipo y, por supuesto, es un factor clave para los emprendedores.

This study explores prospects for inclusive growth in the Central Asia and the South Caucasus region and highlights the central role played by the creation of good jobs.

Across the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), there are over 500 special economic zones (SEZs) and industrial zones located near GMS economic corridors and covering over 50 million people.

All forms of asbestos are considered carcinogenic to humans.

Pacific countries lack workers with construction skills and rely on large firms to import skilled workers for large infrastructure projects.

One worrisome trend in Asia is growing inequality-the rich are getting richer much faster than the poor.

Each year around 1.

Will the extension of trade liberalisation and increases in foreign direct investment accompanying the process of regional integration and globalisation contribute over the long-term to a greater control over migration flows?

The drone industry is one of the most exciting and dynamic sectors in the modern world, growing and developing at an exponential pace.

This report opens with an overview of bilateral agreements and other forms of labour recruitment of foreigners in several OECD countries (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States) as well as in the Philippines and Romania.

This study, part of a series on OECD countries, considers how a tax/benefit and childcare policies and workplace practices help determine parental labour market outcomes and may impinge on family formation in New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland.

Raising children and having a career both rate highly as important life goals for many people.

First experiences on the labour market have a profound influence on later working life.

Whatever the level of qualification, first experiences on the labour market have a profound influence on later working life.

When immigrants arrive in a new country, they are confronted with new labour market requirements such as language proficiency, familiarity with job search procedures and work practices which they are not always able to satisfy.

This book analyses the opportunities and conditions of employment throughout the Black Sea region and Central Asia.

Improving the performance of youth in the labour market is a crucial challenge in OECD countries facing persistent youth unemployment.

Finding a suitable work/family life balance is a challenge that all parents face.

Why is it that health is improving, yet more and more people of working age end up out of the workforce relying on long-term sickness and disability benefits?

With one of the most rapidly ageing populations in the OECD area, over the longer term, Korea faces the possibility of labour force contraction and related economic problems.

This report, part of a series covering around 20 OECD countries, contains a survey of the Italy's main barriers to employment for older workers, an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to overcome these barriers, and a set of policy recommendations to further action by public authorities and social partners.

This book considers how a wide range of policies, including tax/benefit policies, childcare policy, and employment and workplace practices help determine parental labour market outcomes and may impinge on family formation and ultimately the current and future labour supply.

This book presents the results of the project on Young Adults with Low Levels of Education, conducted jointly by the OECD and the Canadian Policy Research Networks.

Accompanying a sustained period of economic growth, the flows of labour migrants between the economies of East and South-east Asia grew considerably prior to the recent crisis.