As the staffing agency business is rapidly growing and suffering from accidents resulting in higher sick leave than in other businesses, it is of great interest to analyze which responsibilities prevail between the customer companies and the staffing agencies, when it comes to working environment for hired staff. The purpose of this essay is to clarify the distribution of responsibilities between customer companies and staffing agencies, regarding working environment. I would also like to analyze which consequences this distribution of responsibilities may lead to. To be able to answer these questions, I have chosen to use the legal dogmatic method together with the sociology of law method. I have studied legal sources, literature and also interviewed three persons who are active within the staffing agency business; one person from the Swedish Work Environment Authority, one person from the employers’ side and one person from the employees’ side. The conclusion of my survey is that the SAM-responsibility is divided equally between staffing agencies and customer companies, since the customer company who hires staff is equated with an employer. The employer must also ensure that there is an organized work adaptation and rehabilitation function within the company. According to Working environment regulation, the employer is obliged to immediately report accidents or other harmful incidents to the Swedish Work Environment Authority. Apart from the SAM-responsibility the customer company must also ensure that the hired staff takes necessary protective actions, to be able to safely perform their work and also to give the hired staff access to common facilities under the same conditions as for the other employees.

Statistically, travel by air is one of the safest forms of transportation. Yet we continue to experience aviation tragedies. Do we fully understand flight safety or is there another way of looking at the problem? In this work a new way of approaching the question of flight safety is developed, justified and illustrated. Traditional methods are shown to be insufficient for a full understanding of flight safety. They do not provide an adequate explanation of the context of aviation safety. The issue is approached from a new perspective with a methodology based on a philosophical understanding of explanation. For the examination of the context of aviation safety traditional modes of scientific explanation are rejected in favor of a paradigmatic explanation. A framework for explaining the context of accidents and safety, in general, is synthesized from four broad paradigms which characterize its patterned nature: the cognitive paradigm, the paradigm of normal accidents, the paradigm of technology, and the paradigm of organizational complexes. The development of the framework is supported by a wide diversity of literature from philosophers, psychologists, social scientists and engineers. It is explicated with numerous examples throughout. The framework is then compared with the traditional mode of explanation through an extensive pedagogical case-study of a specific accident. The new framework is complementary to traditional approaches and new insights are pointed up. Finally, some broad recommendations are made for the community of professionals concerned with improving aviation safety. / Graduation date: 1991

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The bus industry is plagued by high accident costs and risks of passenger injuries. A bus simulator may offer a method of reducing accident rates by delivering targeted training to bus drivers who are most at risk. The first part of this thesis describes the design of the UK's first bus simulator, the fidelity of which was based on a thorough analysis of bus crashes. The second part describes the first studies in a multi-staged method to evaluate the training effectiveness of the simulator: face validity, effects of bus driver experience and stress on simulated performance and simulator sickness. This approach ensured that the ABS has a reasonable level of fidelity, is capable of eliciting behaviourally valid responses from bus drivers and is the first step is achieving training transfer effectiveness. The final study investigated the occurrence of self-bias in bus drivers. The conclusions drove the design of simulated scenarios to be used for bus driver training. Keywords: Bus, Simulator, Fidelity, Validity, Accidents, Driving, Stress, Training

Ombordanställda i svenska rederier har under många år legat högre i olycksstatistiken än anställda i land. Detta problemförhållande bygger vårt examensarbete till stor del på. Detta examensarbete syftar till att undersöka hur de svenska rederierna arbetar för att förhindra arbetsrelaterade olyckor ombord. Arbetet har utförts med metodtriangulering. Vi har intervjuat fyra svenska rederier angående deras arbete med arbetsrelaterade olyckor. Utifrån de svar vi inhämtat från rederierna så utformade vi en enkät som 10st ombordanställda fick svara på. Resultatet av vårt arbete visade att rederierna känner till problemet och att deras förebyggande arbete till stor del bygger på att öka inrapporteringen av olyckor och tillbud från fartygen. Främst med nya inrapporteringsprogram som skall förenkla inrapporteringsproceduren. Från de enkätsvar vi fick så kunde vi se att det finns ett stort mörkertal i inrapporteringen av olyckor ombord. / Employees on Swedish shipping companies have for several years topped the accident statistics when compared with land based jobs. The purpose of this study is to examine how the Swedish shipping companies are working to prevent work related accidents. The study was made through interviews with four Swedish shipping companies. And a questionnaire answered by 10 onboard employees from Swedish shipping companies. The result of our study shows that the companies are working with preventing accidents onboard mainly through different measures to increase the reporting frequency from the ships to the office. In the answers we received from the questionnaires we could see that the reporting frequency on board is poor.

The related and sound method, juridical protection, prevention, compensation and reconstruction for the whole domestic occupational accident labor protection system, currently lack of more thorough research on it. In order to understand the problem of occupational accident labor protection system, this study was adopted by qualitative in-depth interviews and comparatively second data to analyze subsidies of the implements, current method evaluations and influences of the administration for occupational accident labor protection system. There were 18 interviews, who divided into 4 categories including 3 administrators, 2 workers, 6 managers and other scholars. In view of interviews and related theories, the study examined occupational accident labor protection system in Taiwan, and concluded on the following chapters: 1.According to Occupational Accident Labor Protection Act and its Enforcement Rules, these relativity compiled related laws and regulations through the website¡]intranet¡^that integrated the database of information. It was not only convenient for workers to find out various rights of this Act, but also modified related Occupational Accident Labor Protection Act and regulations, build up more complete occupational accident labor protection system and reformed the direction for juridical protection. Firstly, the prevention of occupational accidents was for workers; Secondly, the responsibility of compensation was undertaken by the social insurance, moreover the atypical employment need to be protected and esteemed in the field of occupational accidents. 2.The implemented system of the occupation accident prevention needs to be strengthened, carrying out educational safety and health training, creating enterprise safety and health culture, re-examining the related regulations, and solving the managed problems of machinery or equipment determined to be potentially dangerous. To look into the policies of construction industry with the constructing of safety problems, identify the explicit standard basis of occupation accidents, build up complete supervising system of the occupation accidents, promote the quality of the labor health inspection, enhance the prevention of occupation health, and gives workers e a predominant position for safety and health. 3.The subsidies of occupation accidents were allocated according to the tendency of ¡§need", increasing family subsidies for occupation accidents, preventing from receiving various subsidies before the family problems were happened, strengthening the implementation of the occupation accidents for employer compensation system. 4.It carefully sets up the complete reconstructed system of occupation accidents, enhances occupation reconstruction, builds up the assessed mode of occupation accidents with the damaged degree of workers, integrates the welfare services of medical treatment, labor affairs, and social affairs, and constructs the perfect and complete mechanism of rebuilt occupation accidents. According to this study, the suggestion and reform of occupational accident labor protection system were presented as followed: 1.In legislative views: In the short-term goal, the various regulations of occupational accident subsidies have to be simplified with one-way law or regulation, and in the long-term goal, it need draw up "the occupational accident insurance act" in the future. 2.In administrative views: (1)With revising each regulation related occupational accident labor protection, the labor dispatched protection law will be enacted that strengthens the worker¡¦s rights and protections for the atypical employment model in the occurrence of occupational accident labor protection. (2)The resolving problems of occupational accident labor protection system include: we have to strengthen educational safety and healthy training, resolve potentially dangerous machinery or equipment managed problems, solve construction industry building safe problems, re-examine occupational accident identified problems, reviser complete related regulations of occupational accident supervisory system, amend the quality of labor physical examinations, enhance the labor safety and health guidance and inspection, resolve occupational accident insurance benefits and subsidizing procedures and build up complete the reconstruction of occupation accident system. 3.The subsidies of occupation accidents were allocated according to the tendency of ¡§need¡¨, increasing family subsidies for occupation accidents, preventing from receiving various subsidies before the family problems were happened, strengthening the implementation of the occupation accidents for employer compensation system. 4.In employee views: Workers have the good habit of working safety and strengthen related occupation accident labor protection system and measure, coagulate union consciousness, express collective efforts, by means of the negotiation of labor union and the employer to fight for their benefits and rights.

Proefschrift--Universiteit Leiden, 2003. / Résumé en néerlandais. Bibliogr. p. 247-254.

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