Safety Hazards in UK Law

  • The architecture of employee attitudes to safety in the manufacturing sector
    • No. 31-6, December 2002
    • Personnel Review
    • 649-670
    This study examines the relationships between components of organisational safety climate, including: employee attitudes to organisational and individual safety issues; perceptions of the physical ...
    ... ... : employee attitudes to organisational and individual safety issues; perceptionsof the physical work environment and perceptions of workplace hazards; and relates these to self-reported levels of safety activity. It also attempts to replicate the explicative model derived byCheyne et al. in a ... ...
  • Moving from contractor to owner operator: impact on safety culture – a case study
    • No. 35-2, December 2012
    • Employee Relations
    • 157-172
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a change in staffing contractual arrangements, specific training in hazard identification, mentoring of supervisors and the introduction...
    ... ... roles, actively monitoring their crews to ensurethey worked in a safer manner than before, and staff were actively addressing work-place hazards.With the safety system in place the organisation should be deemed compliant and diligent by the stateauditing authorities. This study has also shown ... ...
  • Mexican journalists and journalists covering war: a comparison of psychological wellbeing
    • No. 5-2, April 2013
    • Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research
    • 77-85
    Purpose: War journalists confront many dangers, leaving them at risk for mental health problems. They are, however, able to take breaks from the hazards of frontline work by periodically leaving co...
    ... ... Theyare, however,able to take breaks from the hazards of frontline work by periodically leaving conflict zonesfor the safety of ... ...
  • Dangers of workplace bullying: evidence from the Caribbean
    • No. 9-1, January 2017
    • Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research
    • 69-80
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine whether person-related bullying, work-related bullying, and physically intimidating bullying predict three forms of job strain: physical exhaustion,...
    ... ... Third, it would beof good practical value to establish health and safety committees to identify, assess and tackle variouspsychosocial and other ... the responsibilities of liaising with workers on health and safety hazards relatedto workplace bullying and other psychosocial stressors, developing ... ...
  • Corporate Justice: Some Preliminary Thoughts*
    • No. 17-2, June 1984
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
    ... ... benefits claims, the passing of company secrets, health and safety hazards in the workplace, etc etc. Traditional divisions of legal ... ...
  • Big data platform for health and safety accident prediction
    • No. 16-1, January 2019
    • World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development
    • 2-21
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of the big data technologies for health and safety risks analytics in the power infrastructure domain with large data sets of health and s...
    ... ... of the architecture interfaced various technology artefacts was implemented in the Java languageto predict the likelihoods of health hazards occurrence. A preliminary evaluation of the proposed architecturewas carried out with a subset of an objective data, obtained from a leading UK power ... ...
  • Community safety and economic crime
    • No. 9-2, May 2009
    • Criminology & Criminal Justice
    The contemporary focus of crime reduction and community safety policies on youth crime, anti-social behaviour and forms of conventionally defined property and violent crime excludes many hazards, i...
    ... ...   safety policies on youth crime, anti-social behaviour and forms of  conventionally defined property and violent crime excludes many  hazards, in particular those associated with economic and corporate  crime, which, despite their considerable impact, have a contested  ‘criminal’ ... ...
  • Role typology for health and safety representatives
    • No. 34-5, August 2012
    • Employee Relations
    • 481-500
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on the development of a health and safety (HS) representative role typology that demonstrates how representatives enact their roles and improve occupa...
    ... ... Problem solvers found solutionsto control hazards and improved production from an OHS perspective. Craft experts applied technicalknowledge to influence strategic OHS decisions. Role enactment ... ...
  • Loose Leaves
    • No. 2-4, April 1990
    • Records Management Journal
    • 148-150
    The 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act emphasises that all line managers are responsible for the safety of staff within the workplace. Those failing in their duties may be prosecuted under the act....
    ...Loose Leaves Veronica Davies The 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act emphasises that all line managers are responsible for the ... These present unforseen hazards to the workforce. Electromagnetic radiation is emitted by many electronic ... ...
  • A Practical Approach to the Assimilation of Product Change on the Shop Floor
    • No. 4-4, April 1975
    • Personnel Review
    • 51-56
    The following notes describe and discuss how an industrial engineering department, in the electronics industry, faced with the challenge of gaining operator acceptance of potentially disruptive pro...
    ... ... switch sets, while maintaining or improving quality, eliminating safety hazards, increasing ... 56 Personnel Review Vol 4 Number 4 Autumn 1975 ... ...
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