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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Workplace safety"”.
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POSSIBLE LINKAGES BETWEEN TRADE RESTRICTIONS AND WORKPLACE SAFETY
… possible linkages between trade restrictions and workplace safety. Working conditions in a developing country are often kept poor or inhumane for the purpose of low-cost comparative advantage in low-skilled labor-intensive production. Such conditions which may affect international market access …
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Decentralized and Intelligent Systems to Enhance Workplace Safety
… in general. Despite initiatives to improve workplace safety and legislative efforts, the number of accidents still remains very high, highlighting the fact that relying entirely on manual control by safety managers and on the common sense of workers is not enough. Although several efforts …
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Systems thinking applied to automation and workplace safety
… recommended by industry standards for analyzing safety risks in modern manufacturing workplaces that are increasingly incorporating automated systems. These increasingly complex, modern socio-technical systems are introducing new problems in the manufacturing environment that traditional methods …
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The Economy and Workplace Safety: Evidence from the Macro-Level
Despite industry efforts to improve workplace safety, every year within the United States there remain over three million occupational injuries that occur on the job. To better understand these costly safety outcomes, I utilized a novel stressor, economic stress (Catalano & Dooley, 1983), to …
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From ‘preventing accidents’ to ‘creating safety’: a maverick approach to the challenges of workplace safety
… the dominant perceptions and approaches to workplace safety around the world, and the development of my approach to creating the public works which have encouraged, facilitated and supported changes in public perspectives, influenced the evolution of my profession, and developed my personal …
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Communicating workplace safety and health: Disrupting OSH messaging to embrace diversity via digital media and innovate around the social side of safety
The communication of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) information within the workplace is an essential element for a successful, resilient, and productive OSH system. Organisations are legally obliged to provide information, training and instruction to their employees and contractors, in a way …
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Three Studies on Hedging Activities and Managerial Opportunism
… study explores the impact of share pledging on workplace safety. Using establishment-level data on workplace safety from Occupational Safety and Health Administration, I find that firms with insider share pledging exhibit higher workplace injury/illness. The channel analyses suggest that the …
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Three Studies on Hedging Activities and Managerial Opportunism
… study explores the impact of share pledging on workplace safety. Using establishment-level data on workplace safety from Occupational Safety and Health Administration, I find that firms with insider share pledging exhibit higher workplace injury/illness. The channel analyses suggest that the …
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Empirical Study on the Tradeoffs of Action Recognition Models for Industry
… in the context of construction site analysis and workplace safety. The analyzed pretrained action recognition models were developed in the lab, and encompass a range of popular techniques in the field, each with their own strengths. In addition to developing a general pipeline to train these …
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Economic regulation, work relations, and accident rates in the United States motor carrier industry
… strategies which are inherently threatening to workplace safety. However, the ability to implement such strategies would be limited at firms where union contracts restricted management from modifying work rules. As such, not all motor carriers were expected to exhibit the same relationship …
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Three Essays on Occupational Safety and Labor Market Outcomes
… comprises of three papers on occupational safety and health. Occupational injuries and illnesses are prevalent and costly. To reduce workplace injuries and the associated costs, the government uses workplace inspections and the associated penalties as the primary enforcement tool. This …
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Experiences of employees with chronic health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic
… pandemic has brought new concerns for the workplace safety of these employees. I applied the JD-R model to a sample of 143 workers with chronic conditions, looking at how prevalent demands and resources impacted levels of burnout and emotional well-being. Quantitative analyses supported …
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Personal Protective Clothing: Law Enforcement Officers’ Attitudes and Safety Behavior Assessments Toward High-Visibility Safety Apparel
… related fatalities are one of the most common workplace hazards in the law enforcement community. They accounted for approximately 44% of all fatalities within the law enforcement occupational field between 2002 and 2011. Although many law enforcement officers’ deaths are due to being struck by …
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The Effects of Perceived Organizational Support on Training and Safety in Latino and Non-Latino Construction Workers
Workplace safety, if not managed appropriately, can result in human and economic tolls. The need to establish and maintain a safe working environment has probably never been more important. Despite a mounting emphasis on safe work practices, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported a total of …
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Novel Uses of Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing for Geo-Mechanical Monitoring
… underground excavations is crucial for ensuring workplace safety and efficiency. As mines become deeper and more complex, the need to monitor larger volumes of rock during mining becomes impractical with existing instruments due to high costs. Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing (DOFS) is a …
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Unconventional wisdom from below : understanding social and technical determinants of ergonomic risk in the Indian informal textile and clothing sector
… Despite substantial progress in labor rights and workplace safety regulations, the persistence of hazardous workplace conditions renders such workers vulnerable to potentially disabling forms of 'Repetitive strain injuries'. 'Repetitive strain injuries' frequently result from poor ergonomic design …
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Leveraging Process Mining and Deep Learning to Improve Health and Safety Outcome Predictive Models
… optimization, healthcare, and occupational safety. The first contribution introduces the Adjacency Matrix Deep Learning Prediction (AXDP) Model, which combines graph theory and deep learning to forecast sequential events. AXDP demonstrated superior performance on eight public datasets, …
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Chemical Application of Silicon-Based Resonant Microsensor
… of interest for applications in public health, workplace safety and environmental monitoring. Traditionally, water samples were taken and analyzed in the laboratory using classical laboratory instrumentation. Current trends target real-time measurements using e.g. chemical microsensors built …
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Assessment of Occupational Health and Safety Standards of Employees Working for Water Programme in Tzaneen, Limpopo Province
Occupational health and safety have become a worldwide concern, particularly for those who operate in outdoor settings. Despite global attempts to address workplace safety and health issues, millions of work-related deaths occur yearly. The study assessed the occupational health and safety …
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