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...

The concept of occupational safety and health management is increasingly drawing the attention of researchers and practitioners. The concepts of occupational safety and health vulnerability and its managerial counterpart occupational safety and health management are still in their infancy. There are not many research articles that provide an overview of occupational safety and health in logisti...

This study examines the issue of whether or not state and federal job safety agencies provide the same levels of public output. Tests are conducted on the hypothesis that state takeover of regulation from the federal program serves to reduce the costs of firms. These costs are comprised of two components: the penalties for noncompliance and the uncertainty costs of regulation. The public policy...

sthma and other idiosyncratic respiratory diseases have become an increasingly important component of the occupational lung disease burden in the United States and other developed countries as more cases are recognized and the pneumoconioses come under control (see Mao, “Cornpensation for Occupational Asthma in Quebec, “ this issue). Unfortunately, control of occupational asthma cannot be achie...

In Malaysia exposures in the workplace are regulated under the Factories and Machinery Act (FMA), 1967 and also under the more comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) enacted in 1994. With OSHA 1994 the philosophy of legislating safety and health in the workplace changed from one that was very prescriptive and containing detailed technical provisions under FMA, 1967 to one that ...

Working conditions for the majority of the world's workers do not meet the minimum standards and guidelines set by international agencies. Occupational health and safety laws cover only about 10 percent of the population in developing countries, omitting many major hazardous industries and occupations. With rare exception, most countries defer to the United Nations the responsibility for intern...