Occupational Injuries and Workplace Risks

Research to Improve Safety

Simo Salminen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

189 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-2856-7 (ISBN)

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The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that, worldwide, there are around 340 million occupational accidents annually. Moreover, the underreporting of occupational accidents, injuries and fatalities is giving a false picture of the real scope of the problem. In addition to human suffering, occupational injuries are a serious public-health problem and cause considerable economic losses.This book describes how employees’ individual properties, such as gender, age, and health status affect their vulnerability to suffering occupational injuries. It explores the effects of different ways of organising work, such as precarious work and shift work, on risk rates. Further, it looks at the risk sources encountered by workers in a number of industrial environments, such as transportation, construction sites, manufacturing plants, forestry, fishing, and mines. It also touches on more recent trends in this sector, such as migration and climate change.

Simo Salminen is an associate professor of social psychology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He worked as a researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health for almost three decades. He received his PhD in social psychology from the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 1997. His research interests are human factors in occupational accidents, work-related traffic safety and risk-taking. He has published numerous academic articles, including over thirty articles in peer-reviewed journals. He was a member of the editing board of the Finnish scientific journal Psykologia for over thirty years.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.09.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-5275-2856-1 / 1527528561
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-2856-7 / 9781527528567
Zustand	Neuware