Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces

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Publication Year:
2016

ISBN-13: 9781771991841

Workplace injuries happen every day

and can profoundly affect workers, their

families, and the communities in which

they live. This textbook is for workers

and students looking for an introduction

to injury prevention on the job. It

offers an extensive overview of central

occupational health and safety (OHS)

concepts and practices and provides practical

suggestions for health and safety

advocacy. Foster and Barnetson bring

the field into the twenty-first century by

including discussions of how precarious

employment, gender, and ill-health can be

better handled in Canadian OHS.

Although they address the gendered

and racialized dimensions of new work

processes and structures in contemporary

workplaces, Foster and Barnetson

contend that the practice of occupational

health and safety can only be understood

if we acknowledge that workers and

employers have conflicting interests. Who

identifies what workplace hazards should

be controlled is therefore a product of the

broader political economy of employment

and one that should be well understood

by those working in the field.