Occupational Health and Safety: International Influences and the New Epidemics (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series) - Hardcover
This text provides a theoretical and empirical approach to investigating the nature of emerging OSH (Occupational Health and Safety) epidemics across the industrialized world. The author of each chapter in this book deals with exposure to a particular OSH hazard and examines the epidemic nature of the resulting ill-health or injury outcome. The authors also evaluate the contribution of globalization and neoliberal policies in creating workplace environments which foster such new OSH epidemics.
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Intended Audience: Undergraduate and postgraduate occupational safety and health, health sciences, health psychology, health sociology and practitioners in the OSH field.
About the Author:
Dr. Chris Peterson has researched and published extensively in occupational health and safety and work related stress. He has a number of books in the area, which include: Occupational Health and Safety: Industry, Small Business and the Public Sector Allen and Unwin (co-editor Dr Claire Mayhew); Work Stress: Studies of the Content and Context of Work Stress: A Book of Readings. Baywood (editor; Stress at Work: A Sociological Perspective Baywood and a forthcoming text OHS in the Healthcare Industry (co-editors Dr Claire Mayhew, A/Prof Tony Barnett) CCH Australia, Sydney. He also has a number of national and international journal articles in the area as well as research grants, including as Chief Investigator on an NHMRC grant. Dr Claire Mayhew has a PhD in Occupational Health and Safety, has worked in the health care system, as an academic, and in the Australian civil service, including extensive periods as a Senior Research Scientist with the Australian National Occupational Health and Safety Commission, the Australian Institute of Criminology, and the "Task Force on Prevention and Management of Violence in the Health Workplace". She is currently a Visiting Fellow in the School of Management at Griffith University. Claire has published over 80 books, monographs and journal articles in the Australian and international scientific press related to a range of OHS issues, particularly micro small business and occupational violence.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0895033038
- ISBN 13 9780895033031
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages252
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