Book Cover
E-book

Title Injury and the new world of work / edited by Terrence Sullivan
Published Vancouver [B.C.] : UBC Press, 2000

Copies

Description 1 online resource (ix, 357 pages) : illustrations
Contents Part 1: Introduction -- -- Restating disability or disabling the state : Four challenges / Terrence Sullivan and John Frank -- -- Part 2: Th Industrial-Epidemiological Shift -- -- From chainsaws to keyboards : Injury and industrial disease in British Columbia / Aleck Ostry -- Workforce and workplace change : Implications for injuries and compensation / Morley Gunderson and Douglas Hyatt -- Women, work, and injury / Jinjoo Chung, Donald Cole, and Judy Clarke -- -- Part 3: Prevention -- -- The importance of psychosocial risk factors in injury / Michael Kerr -- Ergonomic interventions for reducing musculoskeletal disorders / Robert Norman and Richard Wells -- Firm-level organizational practices and work injury / Harry Shannon -- Joint health and safety committees : Finding a balance / John O'Grady -- -- Part 4: Rehabilitation and Return to Work -- -- Staging treatment interventions following soft tissue injuries / Sheilah Hogg-Johnson [and others] -- The natural history and effective treatment of chronic pain from musculoskeletal injury / Eldon Tunks, Joan Crook, and Mikaela Crook -- Effective disability management and return-to-work practices / Ann-Sylvia Brooker [and others] -- -- Part 5: Entitlement, Fairness, and Sustainability -- -- Determining occupational disorder : Can this camel carry more straw? / John Frank and Andreas Maetzel -- Fatality benefits : Rationale and practice / Terry Thomason -- Psychiatric disability and workers' compensation / William Gnam
Summary Annotation Contributors from public health, sociology, anthropology, nursing, management, economics, labor studies, and other fields look at four challenges to expanding needs-based justice for job related injury while preserving work-based prosperity. They are the dramatic rise in disability associated with the changing nature of work, methods of preventing injury and disability, the need for rehabilitation, and the difficulty of reconciling fairness for workers with economic sustainability in a competitive era. The focus is on empirical research and case studies in Canada, and several of the studies began as submissions to the British Colombia Royal Commission on Workers' Compensation in the spring of 1998. Canadian card order number: C99- 911018-7. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Workers' compensation.
Occupational diseases.
Industrial accidents.
Accidents, Occupational
Occupational Diseases
Workers' Compensation
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
Industrial accidents
Occupational diseases
Workers' compensation
Form Electronic book
Author Sullivan, Terrence James, 1951-
LC no. 2001430739
ISBN 0774807474
9780774807470
9780774852128
0774852127
1283111888
9781283111881
9786613111883
6613111880