Author: Karen Messing Publisher: The Bureau ISBN: Category : Canada Languages : en Pages : 116
Book Description
Examines occupational safety and health issues associated with female-dominated occupations as well as with non-traditional, blue- collar jobs which are held by women.
Author: Canada. Ministere du Travail. Bureau de la Main d'Oeuvre Feminine Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
La creciente participacion de la mujer en el mundo laboral ha traido una creciente preocupacion sobre la seguridad laboral y la salud en las mujeres trabajadoras. Este documento examina la salud y asuntos de seguridad en los trabajos tipicamente femeninos. A pesar de que hay poca investigacion disponible pretende estudiar los casos de mujeres con minusvalias, inmigrantes, mujeres aborigenes, etc. El estudio intenta restringirse al trabajo remunerado aunque los trabajos no remunerados realizados por mujeres tambien conllevan riesgos. En primer lugar expone porque es necesario un estudio sobre seguridad laboral y salud, incluye una descripcion general de algunas de las dificultades con las que se encuentran las mujeres trabajadoras: Economicas, responsabilidades laborales y variables biologicas que puedan interactuar en el trabajo remunerado y tengan efectos sobre la salud de estas mujeres.En segundo, lugar introduce una vision general sobre salud laboral y expone algunos de los desafios metodologicos en identificar riesgos laborales para la mujer tanto si los efectos son psicologicos o fisicos. Esta seccion examina las interacciones de las condiciones del lugar de trabajo con algunas variables como la edad, herencia,estilo de vida y status y sus efectos sobre la salud. En el tercer capitulo aporta datos de los efectos sobre la salud de las condiciones de trabajo de algunos de los trabajos tradicionalmente realizados por mujeres, incluyendo condiciones de stress y movimientos mecanicos y repetitivos. En la cuarta seccion presenta algunos efectos relacionados con trabajos especificos y las diferencias entre cada uno. En el capitulo quinto aborda los problemas de salud y seguridad que conllevan los trabajos manuales. Las diferencias biologicas entrre hombres y mujeres no son suficientes para convertir ciertos trabajos inseguros para las mujerres. Finalmente, sugiere mayor investigacion sobre seguridad laboral y salud de la mujer.
Author: Anne George Publisher: ISBN: Category : Industrial hygiene Languages : en Pages : 146
Book Description
Canada. Report reviewing occupational health hazards to woman workers - considers female-dominated occupations, and discusses effects of chemicals, biological, physical and other hazards, with special reference to pregnancy, and treats legal aspects. Bibliography pp. 92 to 101, references and statistical tables.
Author: Jason Foster Publisher: Athabasca University Press ISBN: 1771991844 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 271
Book Description
Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities in which they live. This textbook is for workers and students looking for an introduction to injury prevention on the job. Foster and Barnetson bring the field into the twenty-first century by including discussions of how precarious employment, gender, and ill-health can be better handled in Canadian OHS.
Author: Terrence Sullivan Publisher: UBC Press ISBN: 0774841370 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 369
Book Description
Over the last fifty years the nature of work and work injury has changed dramatically. Since the 1980s, workers' compensation claims have grown steadily and insurance institutions are feeling the crunch. In Injury and the New World of Work, Terrence Sullivan emphasizes the precarious line between the expansion of needs-based justice and the preservation of work-based prosperity. The contributors to the book examine a broad range of research solutions and policy options for dealing with the critical state of workers' compensation. The essays draw on recent case studies and original empirical work from Canada, situating the book within a comparative international frame of reference.
Author: Vernon Mogensen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317451732 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 273
Book Description
This eye-opening book shows how the rights of workers to safe and healthful workplaces are under greater attack today than at any time since the passage of the landmark Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970. This collection is organized around three thematic issues that pose significant challenges to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's ability to protect workers' safety and health. First, the economy has shifted from an industrial base to a white collar/service base, which includes more women workers than ever before - yet many of the safety and health problems that affect women are not being adequately addressed. Second, free market ideology and globalization have served to undermine worker safety and health laws. And finally, the effects of 9/11 have exacerbated the trend toward weakening workers' rights and safety standards in the name of national security.
Author: Karen Messing Publisher: Between the Lines ISBN: 1771131489 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 187
Book Description
In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn’t help. Neither the refinery company nor the scientific community was interested in the scary results of her chromosome studies. Over the next decades Messing encountered many more cases of workers around the world, factory workers, cleaners, checkout clerks, bank tellers, food servers, nurses, teachers, suffering and in pain without any help from the very scientists and occupational health experts whose work was supposed to make their lives easier. Arguing that rules for scientific practice can make it hard to see what really makes workers sick, in Pain and Prejudice Messing tells the story of how she went from looking at test tubes to listening to workers.
Author: Jennifer Kitts Publisher: IDRC ISBN: 9780889367722 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
Women and AIDS, tropical diseases, women and the work environment, barriers to quality health care for women, and the health of adolescents and older women are some of the issues addressed in this book. The Health Gap identifies and addresses key gaps in gender and health research, identifies new and emerging themes in women's health, and sets priorities for future action.
Author: Karen Messing
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