¶ … Saldaria, M. A. & Herrero, S. G. (2012, Annual). The impact of occupational hazard information on employee health and safety: An analysis by professional sectors in Spain. International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 15, 83-87.
Major Thesis
Emphasizing that more than 6,000 workers die each day around the world due to work-related health and safety conditions, the authors cite the need for improvement in occupational conditions to make companies safer places to work. In support of these findings, Saldaria and Herrero provide an exhaustive review of the relevant secondary literature together with their original analysis of health and safety threats by occupational category. Based on their analysis, Saldaria and Herrero found that among the occupations analyzed, agriculture, truck driving and mining were among the most dangerous and intractable to prevention measures. Industry, construction, delivery drivers, health care personnel, teachers and administrative were ranked the next highest in descending order.
The authors conclude that the organizational culture must be changed to make worker health and safety and ongoing top priority. In addition, Saldaria and Herrero found that general information as well as position-specific educational initiative are needed to improve worker understanding of the dangers that are inherent...
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