Description: The Economics of Occupational Safety and Health examines occupational risks that influence the safety decisions of a firm including: wage premiums paid to attract workers to risky jobs; insurance payments to injured workers including sick leave and workers' compensation benefits; premiums for workers' compensation insurance; government fines for safety violations and injury-related...

Salal Humair Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan, [email protected] John Ruark Logility, Inc., 8 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA 01803, [email protected] Brian Tomlin Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, 100 Tuck Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, [email protected]...

background: today, the growth of major industries depends on their appropriate interaction with small and medium enterprises (smes). in iran, smes have 49 or fewer employees. the present study was an attempt to present an overall view of the condition of professional health and safety in such industries in order to gain information regarding activities related to occupational health and safety....

There has been a recent surge in the number of disasters and incidents in occurring in the process industry (e.g. the petrochemical, chemical, food and pharmaceutical industries). The reasons include defects in process-safety management (PSM); inadequate safety management systems in companies; inadequate knowledge among managers and insufficient information about the tasks undertaken and result...

background: research project risks are uncertain contingent events or situations that, if transpire, will have positive or negative effects on objectives of a project. the management of health and safety at work (mhsw) regulations 1999 require all employers and the self-employed persons to assess the risks from their work on anyone who may be affected by their activities. risk assessment is the...

Background: The issues of patient safety and healthcare quality have become increasingly important around the world since the 1990s. Many hospitals manage to reduce the number of adverse events (AEs) that can threaten patient safety in healthcare organizations. Assessing the existing patient safety culture gives hospital management a clear vision of an organization’s strengths ...