TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster,Jason
AU  - Barnetson,Bob
ED  - Open Textbook Library
TI  - Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
T2  - Open textbook library
AV  - HF5001 
PB  - Open Textbook Library
KW  - Business
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - Personnel management
N1  - Workplace Injury in Theory and Practice -- Legislative Framework of Injury Prevention and Compensation -- Hazard Recognition, Assessment and Control -- Physical Hazards -- Chemical and Biological Hazards -- Psycho-social Hazards -- Health Effects of Employment -- Training and Injury Prevention Programs -- Incident Investigation -- Disability Management and Return to Work -- The Practice of Health and Safety
N2  - Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities they live in. This textbook provides workers with an introduction to effective injury prevention. The book pays particular attention to how issues of precarious employment, gender, and ill health can be better handled in Canadian occupational health and safety (OHS).This introduction to OHS differs from others because it contends that the practice of occupational health and safety can only be properly understood if we acknowledge that workers and employers have conflicting interests. Specifically, we investigate which workplace hazards are recognized and controlled,the manner in which these hazards are controlled, and who makes these decisions. These are all factors that reflect the broader political economy of employment and suggest that OHS is contested terrain
UR  - https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/439
ER  -