Workplace Industrial Relations Survey

Millward, N. E. a. et al. (1992) First Findings from the (1990) Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, London Department of Employment. 

Cully and others. The 1998 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey first findings. 

Cully, M. and others 1998. The 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey first findings. Department of Trade and Industry. 

Preliminary data from a second workplace survey, the 1980-1983 National Occupational Exposure Survey (NOES) conducted by NIOSH, indicated that 67,054 workers, including 15,763 women, in 3,123 plants were potentially exposed to silver in the workplace in 1980 (NIOSH 1984a). These estimates were derived from observations of the actual use of silver (67% of total estimate) and the use of trade name products known to contain the compound (33%). The largest number of workers were exposed in the primary metal industries, business services, health services, instruments and related products industries, and fabricated metal products industries. 

According to the National Occupational Exposure Study (NOES) conducted by NIOSH from 1981 to 1983, the following estimated number of workers were potentially exposed to Aroclors in the workplace 2,214 to Aroclor 1242 3,702 to Aroclor 1254 991 to Aroclor 1260 and 1,558 to Aroclor 1016 (NIOSH 1989). Occupational exposure to Aroclors occurs in miscellaneous workers in the transformer industry, noncellulose fiber industry, semiconductor and related industries, and in sawmills and planing mills. It also occurs in clinical laboratory technicians and technologists of general medical and surgical hospitals. The NOES database does not contain information on the frequency, concentration, or duration of occupational exposure to any of the chemicals listed. The survey provides estimations of the numbers of workers for whom potential exposure in the worlq)lace is an issue. Since this study was conducted from 1981 to 1983, it does not accurately represent current worlq)lace exposure to PCBs. 

There was no explicit assessment of safety culture, in combination with a quantitative evaluation of the HSE environment in the accident reports. Such an assessment could be used to get a collective measure or temperarnre of the priority of safety in the organization, related to best practice . In Itho (2004) there is shown a correlation between the level of safety culture and quantitative incidents/acddents thus safety culture could be used as an indicator of the holes in harriers or the level of erosion of barriers, in combination with quantitative HSE data. A more specific measure tan culture is described by Rundmo (1997) i.e. when an employee in the Norwegian oil and gas industry feels at risk he/she is at risk. A proactive indicator could thus be a workplace survey, measuring risk perceptions or performing a more broadly based assessment of safety culture in combination with other local quantitative indicators such as gas emissions, injuries compared with best practice in the industry. 

There are approximately 6 million workplaces in the United States and each one of than has unique sources of energy that are an integral part of the industry or the occupation in that workplace. To take a critical and nonbiased look at the injuries that you are experiencing, other pieces of information are necessary. You should gather information regarding injuries to evaluate them against national trends, industry trends, and your own prevention effort. Injuries involving lost workdays from the 1999 BLS Annual Survey of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses wiU be used as an example. 

Unlike other closely related cyanide compounds, CK is not used extensively in industrial manufacturing or synthesis processes, although it may be detected as a trace pollutant in water sources as a consequence of chlorination. However, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has estimated that 1391 workers were potentially exposed in the workplace to CK in the USA through IH and dermal eontactwith CK where it was produced or used [National Oeeupational Exposure Survey (NOES) Survey 1981-1983]. ... 

A survey is made of French and European Union legislation relating to hazardous chemicals in the workplace, and particular attention is paid to regulations concerning exposure to chemicals in the rubber industry. The carcinogenicity of nitrosamines formed during vulcanisation processes is examined, and methods used in their detection are discussed. 2 refs. 

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