Occupational Health and Safety (Hardcover)

Contents: Part I Occupational Health and Safety ? Key Issues: Building a safe and healthy workplace, Ronald J. Burke; The business case for occupational safety, health, environment and beyond, Elyce Anne Biddle, Vilma G. Carande-Kulis, Dee Woodhull, Steve Newell and Reepa Shroff; Reporting and investigating accidents: recognizing the tip of the iceberg, Tahira M. Probst and Maja Graso. Part II Individual Factors: Accident proneness: back in vogue?, Sharon Clarke; Injury proneness, Nearkasen Chau. Part III Work Environment Factors: Painful hours? The potential costs of extra work hours and schedule inflexibility to workers' physical well-being, Lonnie Golden and Barbara Wiens-Tuers; Workplace bullying: a toxic part of organizational life, Stig Berge Matthiesen and Brita Bjørkelo; Violence in the workplace, David Lester. Part IV Occupational Factors: Psychological and behavioral aspects of occupational safety and health in the US coal mining industry, Kathleen M. Kowalski-Trakofler, Charles Vaught, Linda Jansen McWilliams and Dori B. Reissman; Psychosocial and organizational factors in offshore safety, Kathryn Mearns; Safety and risk in transportation, A. Ian Glendon; Job stress and pesticide exposure among immigrant Latino farm workers, Joseph G. Grzywacz, Sara A. Quandt and Thomas A. Arcury; Psychosocial risks and positive factors among construction workers, Marisa Salanova, Eva Cifre, Susana Llorens, Isabel M. Martinez and Laura Lorente. Part V Innovative Organizational Approaches: A variegated approach to occupational safety, Karlene H. Roberts and Peter F. Martelli; The best practices for managing return to work following mental health problems at work, Louise St-Arnaud, Catherine Briand, Marie-Jose Durand, Marc Corbiere, Marieve Pelletier and Evelyn Kedl; Index.