Occupational Health Hazards: Employer, Employee, and Labour Union Concerns
| Autor: | Thabiso John Morodi, Oscar Rikhotso, Daniel M. Masekameni |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis Physical hazard Review Occupational safety and health South Africa 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine chemical and physical hazards Occupational hygiene risk perception Occupational Exposure Environmental health 050602 political science & public administration Humans health and safety standards health hazard evaluation Enforcement Occupational Health Government Labor Unions 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Online database 030210 environmental & occupational health Hazard United Kingdom United States 0506 political science Risk perception Medicine Business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 5423, p 5423 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph18105423 |
| Popis: | This review paper examines the extent of employer, worker, and labour union concerns to occupational health hazard exposure, as a function of previously reported and investigated complaints. Consequently, an online literature search was conducted, encompassing publicly available reports resulting from investigations, regulatory inspection, and enforcement activities conducted by relevant government structures from South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Of the three countries’ government structures, the United States’ exposure investigative activities conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health returned literature search results aligned to the study design, in the form of health hazard evaluation reports reposited on its online database. The main initiators of investigated exposure cases were employers, workers, and unions at 86% of the analysed health hazard evaluation reports conducted between 2000 and 2020. In the synthesised literature, concerns to exposure from chemical and physical hazards were substantiated by occupational hygiene measurement outcomes confirming excessive exposures above regulated health and safety standards in general. Recommendations to abate the confirmed excessive exposures were made in all cases, highlighting the scientific value of occupational hygiene measurements as a basis for exposure control, informing risk and hazard perception. Conclusively, all stakeholders at the workplace should have adequate risk perception to trigger abatement measures. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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