Industrial relations, occupational health and safety

The practice of consultation between senior managers and employee representatives has a long history in British employment relations yet has often been overshadowed by discussions on collective bargaining.

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the globe.

Members of the community who serve on LEPC s are on the frontlines when it comes to responding effectively to incidents that may occur in local facilities handling hazardous materials.

Successful businesses have spent the past two decades retooling and rethinking how to manage their people better.

By examining the history of the legal regulation of union actions, this fascinating book offers a new interpretation of American labor-law policy-and its harmful impact on workers today.

Analysis of Cosmetic Products advises the reader from an analytical chemistry perspective on the choice of suitable analytical methods for production monitoring and quality control of cosmetic products.

Risk, Surprises and Black Swans provides an in depth analysis of the risk concept with a focus on the critical link to knowledge; and the lack of knowledge, that risk and probability judgements are based on.

One of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's proudest accomplishments is his expansion of the Work Experience Program, which uses welfare recipients to do routine work once done by unionized city workers.

Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes a deep-rooted analysis of construction industry harms that originate from corporate-industrialstate processes.

Written with corporate regulatory compliance officers, health and safety managers, loss control managers, and human resource specialists in mind, this book offers workplace-tested strategies for meeting the health and safety needs of a modern corporation.

It has long been accepted that the social and cultural meanings of the car far exceed the practical need for mobility.

En collaboration avec Hélène Bois, Jean-Paul Rouleau, Gilles Routhier et Jean SextonLes combats de Gérard Dion pour la démocratisation de notre société et la modernisation du Québec feront de ce pionnier des relations du travail l’un des grands artisans de la Révolution tranquille : à preuve, son engagement en faveur de la déconfessionalisation de la CTCC (future CSN), de la réforme de notre système scolaire, de l’obtention du Code du travail en 1964, du droit de grève dans le secteur public et de la défense des intérêts du Québec.

A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the United States, marriage followed by the deaths of her husband and four children from yellow fever, and the destruction of her dressmaking business in the great Chicago fire of 1871--forged the stalwart labor organizer Mary Harris "e;Mother"e; Jones into a force to be reckoned with.

Understanding the evolution and advances of energy conversion is critical to meet today's energy demands while lowering emissions in the fight against climate change.

This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination.

This book provides a summary of the main obstacles for creating and maintaining high standards of health and safety in higher education and research organisations.

For decades, researchers have examined the job stressors and their outcomes for individuals and organizations.

This book covers system safety methods related to occupational health and safety.

"e;Uberization,"e; "e;digitalization,"e; "e;platform economy,"e; "e;gig economy,"e; and "e;sharing economy"e; are some of the buzzwords that characterize the current intense discussions about the development of the economy and work around the world, among both experts and laypersons.

In the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife.

The only book to not only discuss the technicalities of the European REACH chemicals registration process, but also to directly address the resulting business risks and business solutions.

From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate.

We are experiencing the greatest global shift in the world of work for a century.

Functional safety is the task of developing and implementing automatic safety systems used to manage risks in many industries where hazardous processes and machinery are used.

In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the growth of urban manufacturing was transforming the contours of women's wage work and stimulating significant public debate, new legislation, educational reform, and social movements directed at women workers.

Housing is a social determinant of health and this book aims to provide a concise source of the theory and evidence on safe and healthy housing to inform students, academics, public and environmental health practitioners, and policy-makers, nationally and internationally.

The classic text on resolving workplace conflicts, fully revised and updated Resolving Conflicts at Work is a guide for preventing and resolving conflicts, miscommunications, and misunderstandings at work, including dozens of techniques for revealing how the inevitable disputes and divisions in the workplace are actually opportunities for greater creativity, productivity, enhanced morale, and personal growth.

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

This book will offer companies in the food industry a comprehensive guide to preparing for a British Retail Consortium Standard evaluation (Issue 6).

FROM THE PREFACEThis book brings together (in one text) all of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's regulatory requirements for making safe and proper confined space entries.

Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible for a wide range of harmful social and environmental impacts.

Risk science is becoming increasingly important as businesses, policymakers and public sector leaders are tasked with decision-making and investment using varying levels of knowledge and information.

James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle.

Burnout is a common metaphor for a state of extreme psychophysical exhaustion, usually work-related.

The repair of deteriorated, damaged and substandard civil infrastructures has become one of the most important issues for the civil engineer worldwide.

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

One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "e;reform and openness"e; will lead to political liberalization.

'A breath of fresh air' - Norman FinklesteinWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world.

Closing Sysco presents a history of deindustrialization and working-class resistance in the Cape Breton steel industry between 1945 and 2001.

Jane Collins explores a phenomenon of growing importance in developing nations--the labor scarcity that emerges as farmers in Latin America and elsewhere are forced by economic necessity to seek seasonal work away from their home communities.

In the last 15 years, the field of fire and gas mapping has grown extensively, yet very little is published on the subject.

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.

This book covers fire and extinguishing theory and reliability theory and how to validate any survey within the field of engineering.

The latest edition of Protecting Personnel at Hazardous Waste Sites brings together a wide range of occupational safety and health recommendations and practices directly applying to hazardous waste site cleanups.