A Workplace Safety Approach to Good Health
Interdisciplinary Insights for Sustainable Development
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“This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of workplace safety and health, skillfully bridging the gap between academic research and practical application across diverse contexts. Its evidence-based approach provides invaluable insights for researchers and practitioners alike, making it a vital resource for advancing global workplace safety initiatives.”
Jin Lee, Associate Professor, Kansas State University, USA
“This book delivers a masterful synthesis of behavioral research and practice on workplace safety. It is an essential guide for leading, designing, implementing, and evaluating behavioral safety initiatives worldwide.”
Lina Valenzuela Dow, Professor, Icesi University, Colombia
This book presents the latest behavioral research findings on workplace safety to assist practitioners and policymakers in achieving and maintaining good health for all workers. It delves into a wide range of topics such as experiential learning, individual and team safety training, safety climate, and safety leadership to discuss how to achieve specific targets associated with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of Good Health and Well-Being (SDG 3).
A distinctive feature is the thorough coverage of safety research findings applicable to organizations in high-income and low- to middle-income countries, where work-related accidents, diseases, and mortality rates are often considerably higher. A timely reflection on the global applicability of advances in behavioral safety research, this book is a useful source for practitioners, policymakers, graduate students, and researchers alike in management, occupational safety, occupational health psychology, and various fields in engineering, public health, and medicine.
Michael J. Burke holds the Earl P. and Ethel B. Koerner Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Tulane University's Freeman School of Business, USA. He has extensive work experience with public and private organizations across several industries and his primary research focuses on the efficacy of worker safety training programs and the creation of organizational climates for success.
This book presents the latest behavioral research findings on workplace safety to assist practitioners and policymakers in achieving and maintaining good health for all workers. It delves into a wide range of topics such as experiential learning, individual and team safety training, safety climate, and safety leadership to discuss how to achieve specific targets associated with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of Good Health and Well-Being (SDG 3).
A distinctive feature is the thorough coverage of safety research findings applicable to organizations in high-income and low- to middle-income countries, where work-related accidents, diseases, and mortality rates are often considerably higher. A timely reflection on the global applicability of advances in behavioral safety research, this book is a useful source for practitioners, policymakers, graduate students, and researchers alike in management, occupational safety, occupational health psychology, and various fields in engineering, public health, and medicine.
Offers insights to inform policy changes and operations to enhance workers' health and well-being on a global scale Directly links organizational psychology research and practice to the United Nations sustainable development mandate Incorporates discussions on governmental and non-profit organizational programs and program evaluation results
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Michael J. Burke
Themen in »A Workplace Safety Approach to Good Health«
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Occupational Safety and Health Sustainable Development Workplace Safety and Health Training Safety Climate Decent Work
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“A Workplace Safety Approach to Good Health is now the definitive source on how to not only create safe working environments but also how to foster good health. Covering topics from occupational safety, safety training, and learning theories all the way to organizational safety culture and national cultures, Michael Burke has put together an integrative, excellent resource for practitioners and academics. Well done!” (David Hofmann, Hugh L. McColl, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education, University of North Carolina)
“This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of workplace safety and health, skillfully bridging the gap between academic research and practical application across diverse contexts. Its evidence-based approach provides invaluable insights for researchers and practitioners alike, making it a vital resource for advancing global workplace safety initiatives.” (Jin Lee, Associate Professor, Kansas State University, USA)
“This book delivers a masterful synthesis of behavioral research and practice on workplace safety. It is an essential guide for leading, designing, implementing, and evaluating behavioral safety initiatives worldwide.” (Lina Valenzuela Dow, Professor, Icesi University, Colombia)
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