A recent survey reveals only limited employee support for workplace vaccine mandates, underlining how challenging the policy will be for lawmakers and employers.
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Employers need to go beyond the public health orders to ensure their workers are safe from COVID. Here are four key areas to focus on.
Research charting women’s political careers from the moment they are first interested shows they experience abuse at each stage — and this forces some to abandon their ambitions.
Thousands of workers at meat- and poultry-processing plants have contracted COVID-19, and hundreds have died. A legal scholar recommends ways to make their jobs safer.
British meat processing plants are experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks, but there’s a shortage of statistics in the public domain.
Clear and consistent safety messaging in workplaces is imperative for employees both young and old.
The coronavirus pandemic highlights the importance of ensuring safe workspaces, and a new study suggests unionization leads workers to speak up about poor conditions.
Shipbreaking is one of the world’s most dangerous jobs – but it doesn’t have to be.
Don’t think you’re alone when working from home - the typical office desk has more than 10 million bacteria. Here’s how to stop your WFH setup leaving you needing sick leave.
It causes fever, a dry cough, shortness of breath. Outbreaks are frequently deadly. It’s not COVID-19, and it could be waiting in your workplace after lockdown.
COVID-19 outbreaks have occurred at more than 100 US meatpacking plants. Geography, workforce demographics and economic concentration make it hard for workers to fight for better conditions.
The open-plan, shared office may be a thing of the past if physical distancing and stricter hygiene become the new normal.
Working from home changes your relationship with your workplace, but not the obligations you and your employer owe each other.
A reduction in OSHA inspectors may lead to a reduction in workplace safety.
The technician who gave you that shiny manicure may be inhaling dangerous levels of toxic chemicals on the job.
The industry relies on traditional family knowledge so it has been resistant to a culture of health and safety.
The legalization of cannabis has started a discussion about on-the-job impairment. But drugs are not the only problem. Engineers should design workplaces that minimize the potential for human error.
Simply having an offence of industrial manslaughter on the statute books cannot by itself lower workplace death rates.
Every day people around the world go to work expecting to return home safely to their families. But the reality is that many never return due to workplace accidents that could have been prevented.
Violence against nurses in hospitals is increasing. Yet incidents remain under-reported and protections are not enough to ensure their safety, as well as that of their patients.
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Professor and Ken Croft Chair in Management, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor, Construction Occupational Health and Safety, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Health and Safety, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Lecturer in Occupational Health and Safety, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor and Risk, Innovation & Sustainability Chair (RISC), University of Alberta
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Professor in Human Resource Management and Employee Relations, Swinburne University of Technology
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Distinguished Professor and Borden Chair of Leadership, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Ontario
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Lecturer in Occupational Health and Safety, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Social Work and Director, Safe Relationships and Communities Research Group, Adelaide University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Sessional Academic
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Professor of Advanced Manufacturing, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
