Introduction to a special issue: Eliminating health and safety inequities at work

Baron, Sherry; Steege, Andrea L.; Hughes, Joseph T.; Beard, Sharon

doi:10.1002/ajim.22321

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“…Taken together, our results indicated that social determinants were the main factors responsible for the poor physical and mental health status of unskilled manual workers. These findings are supported by previous studies which found that low social and economic status (less education, lower income, and unstable job) directly or indirectly contribute to poor health status [44], [45], [46].…”

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Relationship of Occupational Category With Risk of Physical and Mental Health Problems

Ahn

Kim

Lee

et al. 2019

Safety and Health at Work

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ObjectivesWe evaluated the physical and mental health problems of waged workers in Korea who had different classes of occupation.MethodsWe used data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2007–2017) to examine 22,788 workers who were waged employees and categorized these workers into 5 occupational classes.Results“Unskilled manual workers” were more likely to be older, less educated, have lower monthly income, and work fewer hours per week. Among men and relative to “managers and professionals” (reference group), “skilled manual workers” were more likely to have physician-diagnosed osteoarthritis, “clerks” were less likely to report suicidal ideation, and “unskilled manual workers” were more likely to report suicidal ideation. Among women and relative to “managers and professionals” (reference group), “service and sales workers” and “unskilled manual workers” were more likely to report physician-diagnosed osteoarthritis, depressive feelings, and suicidal ideation. However, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases did not differ among the occupational classes for men and women.ConclusionWe identified differences between men and women and among those in different occupational classes regarding employment status, physical health, and mental health. “Unskilled manual workers” of both genders were more likely to be older, less educated, have less monthly income, work fewer hours per week, and have suicidal ideation. Female “service and sales workers” were more likely to have osteoarthritis, depressive feelings, and suicidal ideation.

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Relationship of Occupational Category With Risk of Physical and Mental Health Problems

Ahn

Kim

Lee

et al. 2019

Safety and Health at Work

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“…Associated medical and indirect costs reach $250 billion, rivaling the costs of cancer (Leigh 2011). Although rates of occupational injury and illness have declined since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established in 1970, workplace hazards persist, while the mechanisms established through OSHA and its affiliated state programs to enforce health and safety standards are out of sync with the realities of the modern workplace (Howard 2010;Baron et al 2013). Limited agency resources coupled with changes in the nature of work and employment relations have led to a crisis in health and safety standards enforcement, particularly for workers in the nonunion low-wage labor market (Bernhardt 2008).…”

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Worker Engagement in the Health and Safety Regulatory Arena under Changing Models of Worker Representation

Delp

Riley

2015

Labor Studies Journal

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This paper examines the efforts of a labor-community-university partnership in Southern California to confront violations of workplace health and safety standards by employers of nonunion workers in low-wage jobs. A worker engagement model has opened avenues for workers and worker advocates to participate in the regulatory arena absent union representation. This approach has achieved notable successes to date, including groundbreaking Cal/OSHA citations and nascent collaboration with agency officials to target enforcement of health and safety standards. We argue this model constitutes the foundation needed to support a potentially viable form of tripartism that allows nonunion workers a voice, albeit limited, in the health and safety regulatory process.

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Self‐employed individuals performing different types of work have different occupational safety and health problems

Park

Han

Kim

2018

American J Industrial Med

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Introduction to a special issue: Eliminating health and safety inequities at work

Cited by 6 publications

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Relationship of Occupational Category With Risk of Physical and Mental Health Problems

Relationship of Occupational Category With Risk of Physical and Mental Health Problems

Worker Engagement in the Health and Safety Regulatory Arena under Changing Models of Worker Representation

Self‐employed individuals performing different types of work have different occupational safety and health problems

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