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Work is expected to provide the human being with richness and well-being; notwithstanding all working activity implies fatalities, accidents and occupational diseases affecting the work productivity and the sustainable development. Safety and health are pivotal to build a culture of both healthy working environments and safe and respectable work. To accomplish this, the Colombian State is promoting safety public policies based on the recommendations by international agencies, some of them framed in the new millennium challenges. The review aims to show how the Colombian public policy for safety and health at the worksite has developed so far. To do so, the international guidelines set by both the ILO and the WHO will be outlined, showing how they are implemented through the Iberian-American strategies and the application of public policy in the national programs for safety and health at the worksite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spain is a country with a high rate of road transport of such goods. Such a dangerous activity with inherent risks and so obvious to the people and to protecting the environment, did not yet have a comprehensive work that addressed the prevention of occupational hazards to which workers are exposed activity (driver and warehouse personnel loading and unloading); lagoon that is now filled with this work that makes a detailed study of the extensive regulations affecting this activity so cross. It also analyzes the mandatory training to perform this activity, the working time from the point of view of prevention of accidents and professional driver explains the responsibilities arising from regulatory breaches by the subjects involved in this sector so conflicted. The paper concludes on the need for the national legislature to enact a rule that, under the specifications of this activity in Spain, develop the Law on Prevention of Occupational Risks (Law 31/1995, of November 8). This book aims to contribute to this goal culminating legislative enactment of this standard to crystallize greater protection of safety and health for workers in the activity, [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article has like fundamental intention, to present a comparative bibliographical review of the different analytical perspectives of the labor accident rate; tackling its concept, institutional frame, causes, consequences, costs and economic models of study from the optics of different countries. For such an end there was used the methodology of informational advancing and equations of search bibliographical virtual in different bases, such as: Redalyc, Scopus, Jstor, ScienceDirect, Econlit, Dialnet, between others. Additionally, it was investigated in the information systems of the different accredited governmental entities and internationally, related to the subject-matter. Between the most excellent finds one emphasizes that from factors related to the job, the social and demographic characteristics of the individuals and the spatial and temporary location of the accidents; the normative frame constitutes the control variable in the determination of the probability of occurrence of catastrophes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The overall objective of this article is to analyse the costs of accidents at work in fruit and vegetable companies operating under the corporate forms of cooperatives and agricultural transformation societies (SATs) in the province of Alicante. This article shows that the companies studied see prevention more as a way to avoid sanctions than as an end in itself. Fruit and vegetable marketing cooperatives and SATs in Alicante bear significant costs due to workplace accidents, yet the culture of prevention does not seem to be a guiding principle in their workplace accident management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the implementation of workplace health and safety programs in micro and small business enterprises in Spain. The authors comment on the importance of the formation of a risk reduction and prevention model specifically for small companies, whose economic resources are limited compared to larger corporations.

This article discusses a industrial safety and risk management program named Radar within the Spanish company IBERDROLA. The authors comment on the company's low accident rate, which is attributed to the implementation of Radar, which includes the formation of risk management teams as well as improving employee motivation and morale.

This article discusses the industrial health and safety practices implemented by the Spanish company Hero España. The authors comment on the plans designed for workplace accident reduction and prevention, as well as the incorporation of both business managers and employees in the planning process. The use and effectiveness of training, regular safety inspections, and audits within the company are also analyzed.

This article discusses a worldwide campaign to promote industrial safety and the reduction and prevention of workplace accidents. The author comment on the role of business managers and leaders in implementing plans relating to job health and safety, as well as improving employee motivation and morale.

This article discusses the importance of business and organizational leadership regarding workplace health and safety. The authors comment on the decision-making process, including planning, implementation, and maintenance of a safe workplace environment, as well as to ensure preventative measures are in place. The relationship between industrial safety and employee motivation and morale is also explored.

This article discusses the importance of employee participation regarding industrial safety in the hopes of preventing workplace accidents. The author comments on the integration of managers, health and safety personnel, and safety representatives within the organization to be involved in the decision-making process in terms of workplace conditions, improvements, and preventative measures to ensure safety.

This article discusses a process by which unsafe behaviors in the workplace can be identified and prevented, known as the Behaviour Based Safety audits system (or the Behaviour based on Safety Reviews, BBS). The authors describe the system, which offers risk perception, preventive behavior, and a proactive approach for curbing workplace accidents.

The Dow fire and explosion index and the quantitative risk assessment methodology are applied to analyze one of the most unfortunate accidents in Mexican history: the explosion of gas storage tanks at the San Juan Ixhuatepec plant in Mexico. Additional calculations of over-pressure and thermal radiation are carried out to further explain the domino effect produced as a consequence of the accident. The results give evidence that facilities in San Juan Ixhuatepec had a moderate risk level which is in disagreement with people's perception of the Pemex company, proprietary of the plant. This study concludes that the accident was mainly due to human error, as well as the inappropriate location of the plant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Observation of unsafe and safe behaviors at work is used in many companies, to known unsafe acts related with personal or industrial accidents and to design improvement or prevention strategies. This technique at natural contexts requires as much rigor in the design of the behavioral inventory or checklist as in its application. Methodological problems, as well as advantages and disadvantages to use this technique at organizational contexts are analyzed. How the results from to apply observations affect organizational psychosocial interventions, are discussed too. Observations could use with other techniques from another approaches. Probably technique utility depends somehow to the organizational safety culture, culture that itself procedure promote to prevent and to control the occurrence of future accidents in the companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Did you know that 9 out of 10 accidents in the kitchen can be avoided? Kitchens have a bad reputation of being a place full of risks; however, more than 80% of these accidents are due to human mistakes caused by ignorance, carelessness , lack of attention, fatigue, excess of confidence, not following instructions, among other things. Thus the importance of training the staff in accident prevention and teaching them to work safely. The idea is to develop a "sense of safety" analyzing the possible causes for each accident by answering the following questions: What happened? Why did it happen? And what can you do to avoid it? Thus preventing a repetition of accidents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes trends in research in occupational safety and health applied to the construction industry. The sources of information published in English (1930-2007) and found more than 250 articles. In order to classify these documents, is proposed the "risk-accident cycle" composes by five steps that reflect the reality of occupational safety and health in the construction industry. For each one of them, the papers more representative were selected and later elaborated a tree of chronological evolution considering aspects such as the content, degree of importance, chronological order, application on each subject, etc. With the elaboration of these trees, show the passage of the general to the particular in chronological form, for demonstrating the actual trends in research in safety and health in the construction. As a final remark, nowadays, research in safety and health in the construction is still very limited, being a field with many opportunities and a promising future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of DYNA - Ingeniería e Industria is the property of Publicaciones Dyna SL and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Traffic accidents are one of the most important problems in the health and social fields, and they affect the workplace directly. In fact a large part of industrial accidents are traffic accidents (in itinere and mission). According to DGT and EEC data, the increase in traffic accidents has been greater than any other kind of industrial accident. However, preventive actions developed in this field are still scarce. Therefore, the introduction of the penalty point system is an important measure to prevent industrial accidents. This article is intended to explain the penalty point system, with particular emphasis on implications for the transport sector and the prevention of industrial traffic accidents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Cuba, as in the rest of the world, the existence of laws and state regulations, force industrial and service companies to implement a preventive system to avoid accidents and professional illnesses that, beginning with the control of the risks that exist in each work station, allow working in a safe environment. This article explains the techniques and procedures applied in the Electric Union (UNE) for investigating work accidents. [TRANSLATION]

Within the context of the debate about the impacts of maquiladora plants established in Mexico, this essay shows empirical evidence about its labour performance and specifically on the subject of occupational safety and heath. The plot upholds that maquiladora plants have a better performance than the non-maquiladora companies since they present higher fulfilling levels of norms and regulations so as lower accidents rates. Among maquiladora companies, the ones that belong to transnational corporations reveal a better performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the results of a test of the main properties of safety climate through the multilevel statistical models. The main objectives of the study include empirical testing of safety climate's property of shared perceptions, testing of the predictive power of safety climate on accident occurrence and the determine the relative importance of the safety climate dimensions in the Spanish industrial context.

The article reports on the global prevalence of occupational diseases and associated deaths and reports on global initiatives which have been implemented to improve workplace safety and protect the rights of employees. In the article the authors reflect on strategies, including developing workplace norms, having human resource personnel enforce the norms and creating cooperation between business and the government, which can be used to improve occupational health and reduce occupational disease.

This article discusses the implementation of industrial safety initiatives among the Asociación de Empresarios Polígono San Cibrao (Industrial Business Association of San Cibrao) in Spain. The authors comment on the preventative measures undertaken by the association since the 1970s, with a particular focus on the promotion of employee health and safety.

This article presents an editorial in which the authors discuss the Red Española de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo (Spanish Network of Safety and Health at Work). They comment on the promotion and implementation of industrial safety management practices as well as risk prevention. They also compare this network with other industrial safety associations throughout Europe.