The impact of occupational health and safety policy on firm value.
1 Introduction This paper investigates the impact of occupational health and safety (OHS) policy on the share price of listed Australian firms. There has been a considerable resurgence in interest in corporate OHS policy and practises, particularly for institutional investors. (1) For example, OHS policy forms an...

Eight mistakes you ought to hate: when rates decline, remember to stay disciplined and resist falling prey to temptation.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Declining workers' compensation rates are music to employers' ears throughout much of the country. After all, that seems like long-awaited good news, particularly since workers' compensation is more often than not viewed as a necessity and a significant cost of doing business. Yet,...

Disposable workers of the oil and gas fields: if you do not have a college degree, it is the best job in the West--unless you die ... unnoticed.
JOSHUA DUANE RIEDEL, a 23-year-old college student, grew up in Worland, Wyo., and, through hard work more than talent, became a star at Worland High School. In 1999, the statewide Casper Star-Tribune named him one of Wyoming's top 25 high school football players. His dream was to become an...

"Tell me where it hurts": workplace sexual harassment compensation and the regulation of hysterical victims.
Informed by a feminist analysis, the author examines a new development in the legal responses to workplace sexual harassment in Quebec. Sexual harassment bas been recognized as a psychological injury, compensable through the province's Commission des accidents de travail. This classification was confirmed in the Beliveau-St-Jacques case, in which...

Workplace safety.
Truism #1: Bad things happen to good people. Truism #2: There are dangerous jobs and someone has to do them. My husband has worked in the construction industry for more than 20 years and has all his limbs and digits. He follows the "paying attention"...

Making sense of industrial accidents: the role of job satisfaction.
INTRODUCTION Attribution theory basically suggests that people generally make causal attributions for their own and other peoples' behaviour to facilitate understanding and to shape future behaviour. They do this by assessing the co-variation between the cause and effect variables (1),(2). The importance of causal attributions in both...

Injury assessment and management.
Abstract A combined presentation by Dr. John Haberstroh and Dr. Robert H.N. Fielden in 2006 at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Forensic Examiners resulted in this article, where Dr. Fielden discusses the Importance of certain principles for the management of musculoskeletal injuries. He also...

Health and safety education: a report of a health education programme for motor vehicle repairers in Warri Metropolis, Nigeria.
Abstract This study examined whether knowledge of health and safety among motor vehicle repairers in Warri Metropolis could be improved with education workshops. The assumption is that increased health and safety knowledge will prevent avoidable injuries and minimise the risk of work related injuries. Thirty motor vehicle...

Dairy derechos.
Marshallville, Ohio Stoll Farms has 3,000 dairy cows in northeastern Ohio. Working the farm are mostly natives of Mexico. They say they were not treated fairly. It started with one firing, then another, and quickly the number ballooned to eight in a matter of six months. The...

Healing the wounded: catastrophic injuries--such as the ones that befell BP refinery workers in March when 15 people were killed and more than 100 were injured--affect workers and managers, who suffer from physical and emotional scars. Only thorough planning can best prepare employers for the unthinkable.
At 1:20 p.m. on March 23, a massive explosion ripped through the isomerization unit of a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers, injuring more than 100 people and sending shock waves powerful enough to rattle windows in buildings five miles away. BP, one of...