Safety at the workplace: accidents and illnesses

Cioni, Martina; Savioli, Marco

doi:10.1177/0950017015590759

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“…In such cases we consider the actual bad working conditions to mirror the perceived bad working conditions, with no expectation mechanism at work. These results are in line with some theoretical predictions (Khanzode et al, 2012) and some empirical contributions (Cioni and Savioli, 2016) underlining that expanding the working time (such as being a full-time worker, working overtime hours and engaging in shift work), ceteris paribus, increases the chance of accidents and illnesses.…”

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“…In the past decades, labour economics research has demonstrated the influence of working conditions on a number of issues, such as the probability of experiencing job accidents and illnesses in the workplace as well as workers' job satisfaction, health and quality of life more generally. For instance, a recent article on work safety by Cioni and Savioli (2016) highlights that poor working conditions are among the major determinants of accidents and illnesses at work.…”

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“…Their results show that new practices are related to higher mental strain and that ICT tends to reduce injuries in the workplace. Working conditions are usually treated as independent variables that affect different dependent variables, ranging from self-assessed health or psychological well-being (Loscocco and Spitze, 1990;Robone et al, 2011) to work safety (Cioni and Savioli, 2016) or wages (Hersch, 1991;Poggi, 2007;Fernandez and Nordman, 2009).…”

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The Secret to Job Satisfaction is Low Expectations: How Perceived Working Conditions Differ from Actual Ones

Cioni¹,

Cicognani²,

Savioli

2016

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Working conditions exert a major influence on accidents and illnesses at work as well as on job satisfaction and health, yet very little research has examined the determinants of working conditions. By exploiting the Italian Labour Force Survey, this paper provides evidence on the underlying factors affecting working conditions. It provides a behavioural interpretation of the results, which stems from the discrepancy between actual and expected working conditions. In light of this interpretation, workers would declare their perceived working conditions influenced by the difference between the actual and the expected working conditions. Variables concerning personal characteristics, such as gender, education and being employed in the first job, shift expectations about working conditions and accordingly perceived working conditions. On the contrary, variables related to work characteristics, such as working full time, with shifts and in a large place, affect actual and thus perceived working conditions (negatively).

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The Secret to Job Satisfaction is Low Expectations: How Perceived Working Conditions Differ from Actual Ones

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2016

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“…However, a substantive review of the literature on dangerous and extreme work contexts agrees that this disparate body of research is hugely fragmented (Hällgren et al, 2018). Relevant fields include risk management, health and safety, and workplace well-being (Cioni and Savioli, 2016; Perrow, 1984). Danger can also feature intermittently in relation to dirty, precarious or stigmatised forms of work (Ashforth and Kreiner, 1999; Standing, 2016), and violence and bullying (Costas and Grey, 2018; Simpson and Cohen, 2004).…”

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I’ve Got Your Back: Danger, Volunteering and Solidarity in Lifeboat Crews

O’Toole

Calvard

2019

Work, Employment and Society

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This article considers solidarity as a dynamic interrelationship between intersubjective and structural processes that underpin webs of meaning in dangerous work conditions. Conceptual links are developed to integrate previously unconnected aspects of work and relationships between danger, volunteering, edgework and solidarity – revealing how a distinct form of solidarity is engendered and experienced. Drawing on 43 in-depth interviews with Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) workers operating in the UK and Ireland (12 paid and 31 volunteers), the analysis illuminates experiences of solidarity in a dangerous working environment. Findings reveal that solidarity is constituted by the interplay between volunteering work practices, shared experiences of rescues, and the meaningful purpose of safeguarding human life. This empirical study provides a basis for theorising distinct conditions relating to solidarity as differentiated from previous work on the concept. Further implications are discussed for contexts where various forms of danger and solidarity might be experienced.

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“…In underground coal mines, working condition and geological disturbance related hazards are very prominent [14][15][16][17] . At a continuous miner worksite, production is achieved with the help of robust machines.…”

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Associations of job-related hazards and personal factors with occupational injuries at continuous miner worksites in underground coal mines: a matched case-control study in Indian coal mine workers

2020

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A wide range of job-related hazards and personal factors may be associated with injury occurrences at continuous miner worksites but their role has been little documented. To address this issue, a case-control study in India was conducted to compare 135 workers with an injury during the previous 2-year period and 270 controls without injury during the previous 5-year period (two controls for each injured worker, matched on age and occupation). Data were collected through face-to-face interviews using standardized questionnaire and analysed using conditional logistic regression models. We found that the injury occurrences were multifactorial and associated with hand tool-related hazards (adjusted odds ratio/ORa=3.69, p<0.01), working condition-related hazards (ORa=3.11, p<0.01), continuous miner-related hazards (ORa=1.95, p<0.05), and shuttle car-related hazards (ORa=6.95, p<0.001), along with big family size, no-formal education, and presence of disease (adjusted odds ratios varying between 2 to 4). Stratified analyses showed that among the 36-60 year-old workers, hand tool-related hazards, working condition-related hazards, and shuttle car-related hazards had significant ORa (6.62, 4.38 and 15.65, respectively with p<0.01,) while among the younger workers, only shuttle car-related hazards had significant ORa (4.25, p<0.05). These findings may help to understand the risk patterns of injuries and to implement appropriate prevention strategies.

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Safety at the workplace: accidents and illnesses

Cited by 25 publications

References 33 publications

The Secret to Job Satisfaction is Low Expectations: How Perceived Working Conditions Differ from Actual Ones

The Secret to Job Satisfaction is Low Expectations: How Perceived Working Conditions Differ from Actual Ones

I’ve Got Your Back: Danger, Volunteering and Solidarity in Lifeboat Crews

Associations of job-related hazards and personal factors with occupational injuries at continuous miner worksites in underground coal mines: a matched case-control study in Indian coal mine workers

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