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Safety Movement - widespread effort to prevent accidents that followed the increasing number of casualties in industry, traffic and transportation, and homes arising out of the Industrial Revolution and the growth of cities. Large manufacturing companies, public utilities, railroads, steamship lines, and insurance companies were particularly concerned with reducing the number of injuries and deaths as well as with cutting the cost of workmen's compensation, other damage payments, and litigation arising out of accidents. Humanitarianism and the evolution of an awareness of public responsibility were other factors in the initiation of the safety movement, which took the form of educating the public in accident prevention by way of safety clubs, posters, magazines, and other means. A vital part of the safety movement was the passing of laws, such as those requiring that buildings be constructed in accord with fire prevention laws, that automobiles meet certain basic safety requirements, that halls be well lighted in certain classes of buildings, that machinery be properly guarded, that food conform to specified standards, and that poisonous materials be so marked. In the United States the National Safety Council, founded in 1913, collects and distributes information and statistics regarding safety in industry, the home, travel, and schools. Numerous federal, state and local agencies deal with safety issues. On the federal level, the Federal Aviation Administration (founded 1958) deals with air travel; the Consumer Product Safety Commission (1972) protects the public against unsafe products; the Environmental Protection Agency (1970) regulates toxic chemicals and environmental hazards; the Food and Drug Administration (1931) regulates food, drugs, and cosmetics; the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (1970) enforces safety in the workplace; the Federal Highway Administration (1966) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (1970) administer programs to increase safety on the nation's highways; the Federal Railroad Administration (1966) covers rail safety; the Mine Safety and Health Administration (1973) regulates mines; the National Transportation Safety Board (1966) investigates and regulates safety issues for all types of transportation; the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1974) regulates nuclear power; and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (1981) inspects meat and poultry products.

See C. L. Gilmore, Accident Prevention and Loss Control (1970); R. Mokhiber, Corporate Crime and Violence (1988).

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16 of the Best Books and Articles on: Workplace Safety

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Regulating Workplace Safety: System and Sanctions » Read Now
by Neil Gunningham, Richard Johnstone. 428 pgs.

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Drawing from experience internationally, on recent and important developments in regulatory theory, and upon models and approaches constructed during the author's empirical research, this book addresses the question: how can law influence the internal self-regulation of organisations in order to...
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Drawing from experience internationally, on recent and important developments in regulatory theory, and upon models and approaches constructed during the author's empirical research, this book addresses the question: how can law influence the internal self-regulation of organisations in order to make them more responsive to occupational health and safety concerns? In this context, it is argued that Occupational Health and Safety management systems have the potential to stimulate models of self-organisation within firms in such a way as to make them self-reflective and to encourage informal self-critical reflection about their occupational health and safety performance. This book argues for a two track system of regulation under which enterprises are offered a choice between a continuation of traditional forms of regulation and the adoption of a safety management system-based approach on the other. The book concludes with a discussion of the use of criminal and administrative sanctions to provide organisations with incentives to adopt effective Occupational Health and Safety management systems. The book proposes a wider range of criminal sanctions and sentencing guidelines to ensure employers receive sentencing discounts where they have introduced effective management systems.
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Reforming the Workplace: A Study of Self-Regulation in Occupational Safety » Read Now
by Joseph V. Rees. 262 pgs.

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...SELF-REGULATION IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY Reforming the Workplace A STUDY OF SELF-REGULATION...commit ments to social values workplace safety , so that we can...
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Human Resource Management and Occupational Health and Safety » Read Now
by Carol Boyd. 196 pgs.

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Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is a complex area which interacts widely with a broader spectrum of business interests and concerns. This book unravels the complex range of factors affecting OHS policy, practice and outcomes.
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New Arenas for Violence: Homicide in the American Workplace » Read Now
by Michael D. Kelleher. 212 pgs.

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New Arenas for Violence examines the history, nature, and causal factors of occupational homicide--murder in the workplace--with a view to the development of a comprehensive understanding of the issue and the introduction of prevention measures designed to establish a safer work environment for the...
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New Arenas for Violence examines the history, nature, and causal factors of occupational homicide--murder in the workplace--with a view to the development of a comprehensive understanding of the issue and the introduction of prevention measures designed to establish a safer work environment for the American worker. Through the analysis of a number of actual incidents of homicide, the author constructs a new framework for understanding occupational homicide and its perpetrators. Kelleher develops a new method of categorizing and evaluating crimes of this sort and offers an invaluable profile of the potentially violent worker or client. The book concludes with a compendium of prevention methodologies that are both practical and applicable to a wide variety of workplace environments.
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Cooperation and Conflict in Occupational Safety and Health: A Multination Study of the Automotive Industry » Read Now
by Richard E. Wokutch. 322 pgs.

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This volume examines the methods used to promote occupational safety and health in the automotive industries of the United States, West Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Kenya. The author pays particular attention to the ways in which the broad national social, economic, political, and...
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This volume examines the methods used to promote occupational safety and health in the automotive industries of the United States, West Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Kenya. The author pays particular attention to the ways in which the broad national social, economic, political, and legal environments influence occupational safety and health activities and outcomes. The study also focuses on the differing degrees of cooperation and conflict exhibited among involved parties in the handling of occupational safety in different countries and companies.
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Managing the Risk of Workplace Stress: Health and Safety Hazards (Chap. 3 "Environmental Factors and Occupational Safety" and Chap. 4 "Psychological Factors and Occupational Safety") » Read Now
by Sharon Clarke, Cary L. Cooper. 208 pgs.

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This book takes a risk management approach to stress evaluation in the workplace, offering practical guidelines for the audit, assessment and mitigation of workplace stressors and providing a comprehensive source of theoretical and practical information for students and practitioners alike.
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Health and Fitness in the Workplace: Health Education in Business Organizations » Read Now
by Samuel H. Klarreich. 422 pgs.

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Bringing together some of the most respected leaders from industry, academe, and government, this volume deals with the growing field of health education in the workplace. Examining the essential components of health education programs, Health and Fitness in the Workplace addresses critical issues...
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Bringing together some of the most respected leaders from industry, academe, and government, this volume deals with the growing field of health education in the workplace. Examining the essential components of health education programs, Health and Fitness in the Workplace addresses critical issues relating to their implementation, evaluation, and promotion. This excellent collection of original essays demonstrates that when industry incorporates health programs into the work environment such programs directly result in the well-being of employees, in addition to low absenteeism, high morale, and low insurance costs.
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Sources of Injury: Occupational Safety Trends, in Review of Business » Read Now
by Robert F. Scherer, Joseph A. Petrick, John F. Quinn. 4 pgs.

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Causes of Death in the Workplace » Read Now
by J. Paul Leigh. 316 pgs.

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How dangerous is someone's job? People from ages 22 through 64 spend roughly 40% of their non-sleeping time at a job where there is considerable potential for exposure to fatal safety and health risks. The purpose of this book is to improve the knowledge and working environment of American workers...
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How dangerous is someone's job? People from ages 22 through 64 spend roughly 40% of their non-sleeping time at a job where there is considerable potential for exposure to fatal safety and health risks. The purpose of this book is to improve the knowledge and working environment of American workers, by providing an in-depth look at the job hazards in 324 industries and 265 occupations. Human Resource managers, industry trade organizations, corporate CEOs, health care administrators, secondary school counselors, as well as, scholars and upper level college and graduate students in the areas of Human Resources, Management, Health Care Management, Law and Social Environment will find this work extremely useful.
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High Risk and High Stakes: Health Professionals, Politics, and Policy » Read Now
by Earl Wysong. 178 pgs.

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Wysong analyzes the nature and extent of the involvement of seven major health and safety professional organizations in the development of the most significant national reform effort in occupational health policy since the OSH Act of 1970: The High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and...
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Wysong analyzes the nature and extent of the involvement of seven major health and safety professional organizations in the development of the most significant national reform effort in occupational health policy since the OSH Act of 1970: The High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act. Wysong provides a penetrating appraisal of the influence of sponsorship, interpenetration, and resource dependency. He concludes that the policy involvement activities of these groups are politically linked to the interests of organizations located in the corporate or public sectors of the economy.
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Making Washington Work: Tales of Innovation in the Federal Government (Chap. 10 "Motivating Job Safety") » Read Now
by John D. Donahue. 232 pgs.

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Everybody knows federal agencies are brain-dead leviathans. Everybody knows that the watchword of federal management is "that's the way we've always done it." Everybody knows that any creativity within American government shows up only in the cities and states. Everybody's wrong. In 1995 the Ford...
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Everybody knows federal agencies are brain-dead leviathans. Everybody knows that the watchword of federal management is "that's the way we've always done it." Everybody knows that any creativity within American government shows up only in the cities and states. Everybody's wrong. In 1995 the Ford Foundation's annual "Innovation in American Government" award competition was opened up to federal candidates and a third of the winners since then have been federal institutions. This book profiles the 14 federal award winners from 1995 to 1998 and challenges the conventional wisdom about the federal bureaucracy's capacity to adapt. Examples include the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which figured out how to identify and act upon business and government's shared stake in keeping dangerous products out of consumers' hands; and the Wage and Hour inspectors in the Labor Department, who deployed market leverage to put pressure on the garment-industry scofflaws whose sweatshops had evaded conventional enforcement.,The stories show how pressure, promises, and professional pride can galvanize federal managers and front-line workers to overcome what are admittedly imposing impediments to change, and persevere with new ways to deliver on their missions. And they illustrate the unfashionable truth that innovation is within Washington's repertoire after all. Copublished with the Council for Excellence in Government
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Critical Issues in Business Conduct: Legal, Ethical, and Social Challenges for the 1990s (Chap. 6 "Workplace Safety, Consumer Protection, and Product Quality") » Read Now
by Walter W. Manley II, William A. Shrode. 340 pgs.

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Critical Issues in Business Conduct addresses the legal, ethical, and social issues that will dominate business in the 1990s. From the impact of AIDS and problems of drug and alcohol in the workplace to financial accounting, employee rights, and sexual harassment, the book explores topical issues...
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Critical Issues in Business Conduct addresses the legal, ethical, and social issues that will dominate business in the 1990s. From the impact of AIDS and problems of drug and alcohol in the workplace to financial accounting, employee rights, and sexual harassment, the book explores topical issues arising from the relationship between business organizations and their external constituencies as well as those that characterize relationships between firms and their own managers, employees, directors, and shareholders. The aim throughout is to provide practical guidelines for dealing with the most critical business conduct issues facing managers and executives today.
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Economic Effects of Government-Mandated Costs (Chap. 4 "Can Safety Be Mandated?," Chap. 5 "OSHA and U.S. Industry," and Part Three "Aspects of Occupational Safety and Health in the U.S.") » Read Now
by Robert F. Lanzillotti. 222 pgs.

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...A. Ashford, Crisis in the Workplace: Occupational Disease and...Smith, The Occupational Safety and Health Act Washington...ment, energy, and consumer safety and health; the...
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If OSHA Is So Bad, Why Is Compliance So Good?, in Rand Journal of Economics » Read Now
by David Weil. 23 pgs.

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...problem: too few safety inspectors in the workplace . . ." (September...Crisis in the Workplace: Occupational...Bargaining for Job Safety and Health...Enforcement and...
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Alone in a Crowd: Women in the Trades Tell Their Stories ("Occupational Safety and Health" begins on p. 51) » Read Now
by Jean Reith Schroedel. 270 pgs.

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...thinly veiled attacks on workplace safety and the minimum wage...shipyards. Occupational Safety and Health Every year...illnesses brought on by workplace exposure to...
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Fetal Protection in the Workplace: Women's Rights, Business Interests, and the Unborn (Chap. 3 "Evidence of Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace") » Read Now
by Robert H. Blank. 232 pgs.

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-- Joseph Losco, Ball State University