Health and safety in Canadian workplaces

Foster, Jason (author.). Barnetson, Bob, 1970- (author.). Open Textbook Library, (distributor.). BCcampus, (distributor.).

Summary: "This textbook is for workers and students looking for an introduction to injury prevention on the job. It offers an extensive overview of central occupational health and safety (OHS) concepts and practices and provides practical suggestions for health and safety advocacy. 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. Although they address the gendered and racialized dimensions of new work processes and structures in contemporary workplaces, Foster and Barnetson contend that the practice of occupational health and safety can only be understood if we acknowledge that workers and employers have conflicting interests. Who identifies what workplace hazards should be controlled is therefore a product of the broader political economy of employment and one that should be well understood by those working in the field."--BCcampus website.

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ISBN: 1771991836
ISBN: 9781771991834
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ISBN: 9781771991858
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ISBN: 9781771991841
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Edmonton, AB : AU Press, Athabasca University, [2016]-
Distributor: Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library
Copyright: ©2016-

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Workplace injury in theory and practice -- Legislative framework of injury prevention and compensation -- Hazard recognition, assessment and control -- Physical hazards -- Chemical and biological hazards -- Psycho-social hazards -- Health effects of employment -- Training and injury prevention programs -- Incident investigation -- Disability management and return to work -- The practice of health and safety.
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Source of Description Note:	This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license. This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license. Online version, 2016; title from PDF (viewed on July 6, 2017).