Injury and the new world of work (UBC Press, 2000)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part 1: Introduction -- -- Restating disability or disabling the state : Four challenges / Terrence Sullivan and John Frank -- -- Part 2: Th Industrial-Epidemiological Shift -- -- From chainsaws to keyboards : Injury and industrial disease in British Columbia / Aleck Ostry -- Workforce and workplace change : Implications for injuries and compensation / Morley Gunderson and Douglas Hyatt -- Women, work, and injury / Jinjoo Chung, Donald Cole, and Judy Clarke -- -- Part 3: Prevention -- -- The importance of psychosocial risk factors in injury / Michael Kerr -- Ergonomic interventions for reducing musculoskeletal disorders / Robert Norman and Richard Wells -- Firm-level organizational practices and work injury / Harry Shannon -- Joint health and safety committees : Finding a balance / John O'Grady -- -- Part 4: Rehabilitation and Return to Work -- -- Staging treatment interventions following soft tissue injuries / Sheilah Hogg-Johnson ... [et al.] -- The natural history and effective treatment of chronic pain from musculoskeletal injury / Eldon Tunks, Joan Crook, and Mikaela Crook -- Effective disability management and return-to-work practices / Ann-Sylvia Brooker ... [et al.] -- -- Part 5: Entitlement, Fairness, and Sustainability -- -- Determining occupational disorder : Can this camel carry more straw? / John Frank and Andreas Maetzel -- Fatality benefits : Rationale and practice / Terry Thomason -- Psychiatric disability and workers' compensation / William Gnam
Annotation Contributors from public health, sociology, anthropology, nursing, management, economics, labor studies, and other fields look at four challenges to expanding needs-based justice for job related injury while preserving work-based prosperity. They are the dramatic rise in disability associated with the changing nature of work, methods of preventing injury and disability, the need for rehabilitation, and the difficulty of reconciling fairness for workers with economic sustainability in a competitive era. The focus is on empirical research and case studies in Canada, and several of the studies began as submissions to the British Colombia Royal Commission on Workers' Compensation in the spring of 1998. Canadian card order number: C99- 911018-7. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR