Toward a Typology of Dynamic and Hazardous Work Environments

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• Personal Author:
  Scharf, Ted ; Vaught, Charlie ; Kidd, Pamela ; Steiner, Lisa ; Kowalski, Kathleen ; Wiehagen, Bill ; Rethi, Lynn ; Cole, Henry
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The most hazardous work environments share one feature in common: constant change. Many different, but constantly changing hazards are found in agriculture, construction, mining, and transport. This dynamic feature of work-place hazards varies by: (1) degree of control, (2) predictability, (3) visibility, (4) movement, and (5) degree of speed and force. In some cases the actions of the dynamic hazards are required for production to take place, and in many cases,
• Subjects:
  Mining
• Source:
  NOIRS 2000--Abstracts of the National Occupational Injury Research Symposium 2000, Pittsburgh, PA, October 17-19. Pittsburgh, PA: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2000 Oct; :44
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025345
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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