LABRST 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Occupational Safety And Health, Canadian English, Relative Risk
8 Nov 2016
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Work takes up all of your time. When you are at home you are still thinking about work and what needs to be done. To cause to work too hard, too much, or too long; weary or exhaust with work (often used reflexively): don"t overwork yourself on that new job . To work too hard, too much or too long; work to excess: you look as though you"ve been overworking. The counting of accidents in an occupational setting is relevant as one measure of occupational safety. Most accidents or adverse events are due to human rather than technical failures. This is a well-known fact for example in the transport sector. Also in healthcare this is becoming a well-established fact and it is probably the cae for all complex and potentially hazardous systems where humans interact wagstaff, 173. Authors are saying that most accidents are the fault of the worker rather than working conditions/technical failure.
