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Occupational Health and Safety: International Influences and the New Epidemics
Edited by Chris L. Peterson and Claire Mayhew
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Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series, Vicente Navarro, Series Editor
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IN PRAISE OF
"In its attempt to assemble events in occupational health and safety with a
view toward the future, this book joins publications such as Markowitz and
Rossner's Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial
Pollution (University of California Press, 2002), Epstein's
Cancer-Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War(Baywood
Publishing, 2005), and even Beaglehole and Bonita's Public Health at
the Crossroads: Achievements and Prospects, 2nd edition (Cambridge
University Press, 2004). It is well reasoned, perhaps providing a realistic
view of the future. Reading this book provides a distant, pleasant,
reminder of time spent studying key sociocultural and political causes
important to understanding health deficits. My advice is to read the
conclusions chapter (12) first and then sample the rest of the book."
Doody's Book Review Service, Weighted Numerical Score: 92 - 4 Stars!
—J. Thomas Pierce, MB.BS, Ph.D, Navy Environmental Health Center
"Recognition of, control of, and compensation for occupational disease and injury have always depended more on sociopolitical and economic factors than on objective science. More worryingly, it is likely that the scientific study of occupational disease and injury will become even more difficult in the globalized corporate industrial world of the 21st century. In fact, occupational health and safety is now in a critical state throughout the world, and governments and international organizations are struggling to deal with it. This outstanding new book provides a fresh, original, honest, and comprehensive study of this crisis, using detailed examples from Australian and international experience."
—Dr. James Leigh, Director, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Sydney, Consultant to WHO, WTO, and ILO
"The book reveals new forms of risk at work and the dangers of ignoring them. The authors have a well of understanding about the roots of the emerging OHS problems and correctly attribute them to the spread of globalization and increasing flexibilization of employment. The theme on risk-perception, evident in a number of chapters, is a must for all OHS actors. Thus, the book lifts out self-delusive veil about the negative consequences associated with increased flexibilization of employment, demonstrates how changes in the organization of the production create more complex (and often ignored) risks at work, and reveals the true causes of the 'new' OHS epidemics."
—Prof. Kaj Frick, National Institute of Working Life, Stockholm
"This book is another major contribution to scholarship on occupational health and safety by two prolific Australian authors."
—Evan Willis, Professor of Sociology, Head of Department of Humanities and Social Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne
"This book is not a light read, but it is an essential source for any serious student keen to investigate the pressures that are making work more hazardous today and laying the groundwork for the occupational ill-health epidemics of tomorrow."
—Hazards, Volume 92, 2005
"On receipt of this book I was intrigued by the title and immediately scanned the contents page to get a sense of the substance. I very quickly realized that my assumption that the focus of the book would be limited to occupational disease was very wrong. I then anticipated reading the first chapter by the editors to gain an overview of the new epidemics and then dipping in and out of other selected chapters that may be of interest to me. However, at the conclusion of the first chapter my appetite was well and truly whetted and I found myself hungrily consuming the remaining eleven chapters.
In conclusion, the book is very well structured with a clear overview at the start and clear introductions and concluding summaries within each chapter, This book should be on the reading list of any OHS professional and should be compulsory reading for any post graduate student."
—Steve Crowley, FSIA, Safety in Australia28(2)
ABOUT THE BOOK
This text provides a theoretical and empirical approach to investigating the nature of emerging OSH (Occupational Health and Safety) epidemics across the industrialized world. The author of each chapter in this book deals with exposure to a particular OSH hazard and examines the epidemic nature of the resulting ill-health or injury outcome. The authors also evaluate the contribution of globalization and neoliberal policies in creating workplace environments which foster such new OSH epidemics.
The authors come from a range of countries and bring a variety of disciplinary perspectives when identifying these new OSH epidemics. There chapters span a wide range of OSH issues, including: the inter-relationships between precarious employment and poorer OSH, OSH problems associated with child and adolescent labor, the incidence and severity of occupational violence and bullying, and the disease consequences from exposure to hazards with very long latency (e.g. mesothelioma), the effects of stress, and the role of best practice models for prevention that can be adopted in dealing with the epidemics.
Other specific issues include: the OSH consequences of prolonged standing, the development and maintenance of return to work programs, and a research framework for investigating OHS epidemics. Finally, models are developed for explaining the emergence of epidemics and how various businesses, government and professional sectors handle these.
Intended Audience: Undergraduate and postgraduate occupational safety and health, health sciences, health psychology, health sociology and practitioners in the OSH field.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Dr. Chris L. Peterson has researched and published extensively in occupational health and safety and work related stress. He has a number of books in the area, which include: Occupational Health and Safety: Industry, Small Business and the Public Sector Allen and Unwin (co-editor Dr Claire Mayhew); Work Stress: Studies of the Content and Context of Work Stress: A Book of Readings. Baywood (editor; Stress at Work: A Sociological Perspective Baywood and a forthcoming text OHS in the Healthcare Industry (co-editors Dr Claire Mayhew, A/Prof Tony Barnett) CCH Australia, Sydney. He also has a number of national and international journal articles in the area as well as research grants, including as Chief Investigator on an NHMRC grant.
Dr Claire Mayhew has a PhD in Occupational Health and Safety, has worked in the health care system, as an academic, and in the Australian civil service, including extensive periods as a Senior Research Scientist with the Australian National Occupational Health and Safety Commission, the Australian Institute of Criminology, and the "Task Force on Prevention and Management of Violence in the Health Workplace". She is currently a Visiting Fellow in the School of Management at Griffith University. Claire has published over 80 books, monographs and journal articles in the Australian and international scientific press related to a range of OHS issues, particularly micro small business and occupational violence.
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