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Results for workplace safety
4 results foundAuthor: Gimeno, David Title: Work-Related Violence Research Project. Overview and Survey Module and Focus Group Findings Summary: The objective of this Final End of Project Report is to summarize the development and field testing of a new module on survey questions and focus group protocols on the topic of work-related violence (WRV), for use in Central America. A.1. Main objective The main goal of the contract was to provide ILAB with a newly developed set of high quality research tools (i.e., new survey questions module and related focus group protocols) and corresponding methodological recommendations to meet ILAB's needs for collecting nationally representative, gender-disaggregated data on the prevalence, nature, and possible consequences of adult (18 years of age and older) WRV, including gender-based violence (or GBV) to the extent practicable. ILAB is particularly interested in the formal and informal sectors of one or more of the following Spanish-speaking Central American countries: Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor, 2016. 140p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 15, 2017 at: https://www.dol.gov/asp/evaluation/completed-studies/Work-Related-Violence-Research-Project-Final-Report.pdf Year: 2016 Country: Central America URL: https://www.dol.gov/asp/evaluation/completed-studies/Work-Related-Violence-Research-Project-Final-Report.pdf Shelf Number: 147346 Keywords: Gender-Related ViolenceWork-Related ViolenceWorkplace SafetyWorkplace Violence |
Author: Schindeler, Emily Title: Prosecuting workplace violence: The utility and policy implications of criminalisation Summary: Workplace violence or bullying causing psycho-social injury is an emerging and serious problem in Australia and internationally. Annual costs of such injuries have been estimated to exceed 6 billion dollars. Responses to workplace violence causing psychological harm increasingly centre on criminalisation and threats of escalated enforcement action against employers who fail to provide safe working environments. However this trend takes place amongst a complex inter-meshing of workplace health and safety regulatory systems, criminal law, and other systems such as anti-discrimination and industrial laws. It also occurs in an environment where enforcement is entrusted to regulatory agencies affected by the trend to responsive or risk-based regulation, one effect of which has been a movement in some areas away from enforcement to self-regulation or even deregulation. This project seeks to understand how regulatory agencies respond to workplace violence or bullying that causes psychological rather than physical harms. In particular it aims to establish the prevalence and outcomes of prosecutions involving workplace behaviours causing psychological injury. Where such prosecutions are not occurring, the study seeks to understand the philosophical, institutional and procedural barriers to such prosecutions. Finally the project examines policy issues including whether criminalisation is appropriate for these types of workplace harms, and whether corporate employers can be made more liable for their failures to provide safe work environments. To achieve these aims four stages of research were undertaken. First, the legislation, regulation and agencies involved in addressing workplace psychological harm were mapped, to establish their roles and responsibilities. Second, a review of all relevant Australian cases was undertaken. Third, these cases were analysed to identify themes and common issues. Fourth consultations were held with representatives from most relevant workplace health regulators to help understand practices and problems in the area. The research has shown that despite the availability of stronger legislative measures, regulatory processes continue to rely upon supportive responses to incidents of psychological injury arising in the workplace with priority placed on redressing system or management deficiencies. Financial penalties or other punitive options have rarely been pursued. The combination of the barriers to prosecution, even in cases determined on the basis of reasonable probabilities, has meant that the explicit powers for enforcement (as compared to encouraging compliance) have rarely been exercised. As a consequence, there has been little translation of regulatory action to explicit liability for harm done. Further, the separation of workplace health and safety regulatory responses to employing organisations from responses for victims has effectively left many complainants with the limited options of seeking workers' compensation or the challenge of taking individual action against the employer through various courts, commissions and tribunals. Details: Canberra : Criminology Research Advisory Council, 2016. 68p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 11, 2018 at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300035306_Prosecuting_workplace_violence_The_utility_and_policy_implications_of_criminalisation Year: 2016 Country: Australia URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300035306_Prosecuting_workplace_violence_The_utility_and_policy_implications_of_criminalisation Shelf Number: 150166 Keywords: Workplace BullyingWorkplace SafetyWorkplace Violence |
Author: WorkSafe BC Title: Working Alone: A Handbook for Small Business Summary: This handbook is for employers who have employees working alone or in isolation. It explains the how to identify and minimize hazards for those employees and how to regularly check on their well being. Details: Vancouver, BC, Canada: WorkSafe BC, 2009. 42p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 30, 2019 at: https://www.worksafebc.com/en/resources/health-safety/books-guides/working-alone-a-handbook-for-small-business?lang=en Year: 2009 Country: Canada URL: https://www.worksafebc.com/en/resources/health-safety/books-guides/working-alone-a-handbook-for-small-business?lang=en Shelf Number: 156085 Keywords: Employee SafetyHazardous Working EnvironmentsWorkplace Safety |
Author: WorkSafe BC Title: A Workbook for Employers and Workers: Preventing Violence Summary: This workbook can be used as a tool for training workers in violence prevention procedures for the workplace. Details: Vancouver, BC, Canada: WorkSafe BC, 2008. 47p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 30, 2019 at: https://www.worksafebc.com/en/resources/health-safety/books-guides/a-workbook-for-employers-and-workers-preventing-violence?lang=en Year: 2008 Country: Canada URL: https://www.worksafebc.com/en/resources/health-safety/books-guides/a-workbook-for-employers-and-workers-preventing-violence?lang=en Shelf Number: 156087 Keywords: Employee SafetyRobberyShopliftingTheft Workplace SafetyWorkplace Violence |