Occupational Injury : Risk, Prevention And Intervention.

PART ONE The data speak but what do they tell us? 1 Introduction 1 1 National occupational injury statistics: what can the data tell us? 5 Petra Macaskill and Tim R.Driscoll 2 Analysis of narrative text fields in occupational injury data 15 Nancy Stout 3 Using injury data to identify industry research priorities 21 Laurie Stiller, John Sargaison and Thomas Mitchell PART TWO Errors, mistakes and behaviour 29 Introduction 29 4 The role of accident experiences on subsequent accident events 33 Kenneth R.Laughery and Kent P.Vaubel 5 Time-to-contact 44 Peter A.Hancock and Michael P.Manser 6 The use of human error data as indicators of changes in work performance 59 Claire M.Pollock vi CONTENTS PART THREE The role of risk in safety 69 Introduction 69 7 Is risk perception one of the dimensions of safety climate? 73 Nicole Dedobbeleer and François Béland 8 The concept of target risk and its implications for accident prevention strategies 82 Gerald J.S.Wilde 9 Minimizing the risk of occupationally acquired HIV/AIDS: universal precautions and health-care workers 106 David M.DeJoy, Robyn R.M.Gershon and Laurence R.Murphy PART FOUR Organizations, management, culture and safety 117 Introduction 117 10 People make accidents but organizations cause them 121 Willem A.Wagenaar 11 Management and culture: the third age of safety. A review of approaches to organizational aspects of safety, health and environment 129 Andrew R.Hale and Jan Hovden PART FIVE Safety interventions 167 Introduction 167 12 Workplace organizational factors and occupational accidents 171 Harry S.Shannon 13 Safety interventions: international perspectives 179 Jorma Saari 14 Before it is too late: evaluating the effectiveness of interventions 195 Andrea Shaw and Verna Blewett 15 A three-dimensional model relating intervention and cooperation to injury prevention: background, description and application 204 Ewa Menckel PART SIX Rules or trust: ensuring compliance 215 Introduction 215 16 Prevention of chemical injury: an unconventional view 219 Richard T.Gun, Sally A.Brinkman and Robert Cox CONTENTS vii 17 The case for regulating compliance: a unionist’s view 230 Yossi Berger 18 The case for industry self-regulation: introducing an alternative compliance system in the long distance road transport industry 234 18.1 New approaches to fatigue management: a regulator’s perspective 234 Gary Mahon 18.2 Road-transportation: industry perspective 243 Denis Robertson 18.3 Driving hours regulations: a transport operator’s perspective 245 Paul Freestone PART SEVEN The compensation system in Australia: help or hindrance? 249 Introduction 249 19 Workers’ compensation and common law: how the civil legal system discourages occupational injury prevention 253 James Leigh 20 Does compensation have a role in injury prevention? 263 Andrew Hopkins