Sökning: "occupational safety"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 77 avhandlingar innehållade orden occupational safety.
1. Arbetsskada : samspelet mellan skadestånd och andra ersättningsordningar
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the issue of compensation for work-related injuries – the so called occupa-tional damages. Tort law, private insurance law, insurances due to collective bargaining, public insurances covering occupational damages as well as different areas of the social security system are all connected in a vast and complex structure. LÄS MER
2. Safety leadership in the construction industry : Managing safety at Swedish and Danish construction sites
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to identify and describe essential components of safety leadership behavior in the construction industry in Sweden and Denmark. The methods used were semi-structured interviews, cross-sectional and longitudinal questionnaire studies, and behavioral observations. LÄS MER
3. Safety in the making : studies on the discursive construction of risk and safety in the chemical industry
Sammanfattning : This compilation thesis aims to analyse how risk and safety are constructed, reproduced, and negotiated by communicative means in safety-critical workplaces. It conceptualizes these communicative moments of shaping and reshaping risk and safety as enmeshed in multiple forms of governing. LÄS MER
4. Safety as a process : From risk perception to safety activity
Sammanfattning : The frequency of occupational accidents in the Swedish food industry and agriculture is high. This thesis has therefore explored the 'process of safety' in order to detect and analyse factors that either hinder or facilitate safety activity and to further develop intervention methods towards increased safety activity. LÄS MER
5. Serious occupational injuries by "accidents" : possible means of prevention and injury mitigation
Sammanfattning : An analysis of the circumstances preceding severe occupational injuries as a consequence of impacts has shown that well-known risks are of great importance in 75 per cent of the cases. This indicates that the subjective cause "neglect" is common. The negligence is distributed to the same extent among employers as among employees. LÄS MER
