Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methods have dominated most of the fields of applied research and technology over the last twenty years.

A risk conundrum can be viewed as a risk that poses major issues in assessment, and whose management is not easily engaged.

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

Person-centred health care is increasingly endorsed as a key element of high-quality care, yet, in practice, it often means patient-centred health care.

Organise or Die?

Explains the NHS as a political environment, and concentrates on understanding the relationships of power rather than on the role of apparent authority.

From mining to sex work and from the classroom to the docks, violence has always been a part of work.

A Theory of Employment Systems considers why there are such great international differences in the way employment relations are organized within the firm.

An Introduction to Health and Safety Law provides a clear, concise overview of health and safety law in the United Kingdom.

In his visionary analysis, Charles Heckscher argues for "e;associational unionism,"e; a model outside the tradition of American labor law.

Every porn scene is a record of people at work.

Completely revised and updated, Hazardous Materials Compliance for Public Research Organizations: A Case Study, Second Edition presents a case study of one university's policies and practices with regard to the procurement, use, storage and disposal of HAZMAT in the context of a changing internal structure and regulatory environment.

How far would or should you go to feel secure?

Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history.

In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm.

Designing Coffee Shops and Cafes for Community brings together research, theory, and practical applications for designing coffee shops and cafes as places to enhance community connections.

The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 modernised the UK's approach to disaster and emergency management, taking into account the kinds of threats the country faces in the 21st century, including terrorist threats and threats to the environment.

Silver Award Winner, 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Young Adult (YA) Non-FictionMoving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature the voices of the workers themselves.

Planning and Managing the Safety System addresses new regulations and practices to help you achieve safety and health management success.

In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles.

Aimed at political sciences students and teachers, Ferreras presents the new idea of ''economic bicameralism'' to redefine firms as political entities.

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While workers movements have been largely phased out and considered out-dated in most parts of the world during the 1990s, the 21st century has seen a surge in new and unprecedented forms of strikes and workers organisations.

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.

Dictionary & Thesaurus of Environment, Health & Safety is the first and only dictionary/thesaurus to focus on the usage and structure of environment, health, and safety terminology.

Organise or Die?

Despite many advances, 20 American workers die each day as a result of occupational injuries.

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The long decade from the October Revolution to 1930 was the beginning of a great experiment to create a socialist society.

Labor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unions and offers strategies to build a working-class movement.

Most youth workers will admit that they don't spend a lot of time thinking about safety in their youth ministry.

The book demonstrates how Resilient Health Care principles can enable those on the frontline to work more effectively towards interdisciplinary care by gaining a deeper understanding of the boundaries that exist in everyday clinical settings.

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 repeal the CDM Regulations 1994 and the Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996; containing all the legal duties regarding the design and management of a construction project and the safe operating standards expected on a construction site.

In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes.

Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history.

As the ergonomic aspect of many problems facing the industry today attracts more attention from the management, providing scientific knowledge and the know-how to solve such problems is becoming increasingly more important.

To live is to communicate, and to communicate with confidence is a craft that one will do well to master early rather than later in life.

With this important resource, health care leaders from the board room to the point-of-care can learn how to apply the science of safe and best practices from industry to healthcare by changing leadership practices, models of service delivery, and methods of communication.

Disturbing asbestos materials during construction is a serious hazard that all contractors may encounter.

The process of food inspection relies on an inspector's understanding of the intrinsic hazards associated with individual foods.

Other books on industrial hygiene focus more on classroom use than on practical application and are too large and cumbersome to use on the job.

Reworking Japan examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms have challenged Japan's corporate ideologies, gendered relations, and subjectivities of individual employees.

The EU Physical Agents Directive on Noise, which will be implemented into UK law in February 2006, will reduce noise action levels drastically.

Violence is defined by the World Health Organisation as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, or psychological harm.

Fully revised for this second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health provides a concise practice-based guide.

Just how comprehensive is your company's safety plan?

Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II.