3 In the last couple of decades there has not happened much in the “farriery”- department. The work procedure, methods and farrier´s tools have stayed the same over time, which have led to a huge workload that is wearing the active participants out. So think if you were able to ease the working process of horseshoeing for a farrier. The farriery is still first and foremost a profession based on handicraft that has to relay on the farrier´s good memory, sight and sense. The workplaces for a farrier is most of the time at the hiring horse owner`s stables, which makes it harder for the farrier´s to have influence over their working situation. In Sweden shoes horses by both educated and uneducated people, but there is hopes to legalise the profession title by year 2030. One of the greatest advantages through this project, has been to observe and the participant in a farrier´s everyday work. Experimentally mockups and visually shown images have been used as the basis for the discussions with people within the horse industry. The farrier`s work a ethics and work environment are very unexplored subjects in modern time, which influenced the work material in the project´s needs and analysis. The inspiration for the project’s end-result is, among other things, based on horsey´s and the farrier´s ancient origin. As well as the requisites of technology in the work. The end-result is based to decrease the unnecessary repeating work that happens everytime a shoeing emerges. With the help of the Hoof scanner, can the farrier´s have a profile for every single horse i.e. visually images of the hoof, choice of shoes, need of elaboration work, necessary balance adjustments, history and clarified pictures. The functions are able to adjust to every farrier´s need of scene. Documented and visual information can be transcribed (pay it forward) between farrier, veterinary and horse owner.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Psychology / James C. Shanteau / Unintentional injuries represent the leading cause of death among Americans aged 1-44 years. While there have been many life-saving advances in engineering, attempts to save lives by changing people's behavior have been less successful. For instance, safety and health communications have sometimes led to increased knowledge and self-reported intentions to comply with recommendations, but traditional efforts to demonstrate changes in actual target behaviors have often failed. Research in many settings has shown that narrative communications have exceptional power to persuade and affect peoples' decisions. This suggests that safety and health messages might be more effective if they include narratives, such as brief stories about people who have been injured. The purpose of this dissertation is to determine if safety communications that include stories about injuries result in superior behavioral compliance when compared with traditional abstract safety messages. Teams of two participants assembled a swing set, using written instructions that contained relevant safety messages. Fifty-four teams were randomly assigned to three conditions: story-based safety messages, concrete nonstory safety messages, and traditional abstract safety messages. Compliance with safety messages was defined as the number of compliant components in the finished swing set. After adjustment for covariates, story-based messages resulted in a 20 percent improvement in compliance, compared with concrete nonstory and traditional abstract messages. Covariates included age, gender, (log) childcare experience, equipment assembly experience, presence of observer, and a final covariate related to timing of experimental sessions conducted by different experimenters. A positive relationship was noted between behavioral compliance and immediate (but not delayed) recall of message content. Narrative transportation was also positively related to compliance, but only within the story-based condition. Behavioral compliance was not related to remindings or judgments about the likelihood of injuries. The research is important because of its potential for improving safety communications and saving lives. Stories about injuries improved safety behavior even though the stories were brief and not designed to be entertaining or transporting. In contrast, the lack of correspondence between observed behavior and many surrogate measures suggests caution is in order when evaluating interventions using self-report measures, delayed memory, and other common dependent variables.

Master of Agribusiness / Department of Agricultural Economics / Brian P. Niehoff / This thesis is the tool for moving companies to the next level in safety. I believe through this plan we can keep people safe in the agribusiness industry. This is very important, so that we can keep cost down and be able to stay in business; or avoid costly litigation / arbitration hearings because someone was injured on the job. When I was hired my job was to develop procedures that meet Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards, reduced injuries, and would be a continuous improvement type of program. The thesis will be introductory information in regards to safety followed by a sample safety manual that I have created by working with different safety professional in the safety industry.

This thesis critically examines dominant conceptualizations of safety crimes – offences by corporations that seriously injure and kill workers – within the Alberta oil and gas industry. Using critical discourse analysis, and relying on and Foucaultian and Marxist literatures, the thesis critically examines the extent to which government fatality reports, workplace safety education campaigns and court decisions characterize safety crimes primarily as ‘accidents’ caused by ‘careless’ workers. Two main discourses were found: first, workers were responsibilized, effectively blamed for their own injury and death in the workplace while employers were characterized as largely good and law-abiding; second, serious injury and death was (re)conventionalized as the regrettable but largely unintentional and unavoidable side effect of capitalist production. In the process, the underlying causes of safety crimes, including weak and under-enforced laws and a socio-economic context that prioritizes profits over worker safety, remain untouched.

The management of health and safety risks in the oil refinery tends to be centred on the collection and simulation of technical data which can then be used to make decisions on the wellbeing of the workforce as well as the refinery installations. While the number crunching in the process is immensely vital, there tends to be a problem of ignoring or, at the very least, side-lining the social-cultural values of the people dealing with health and safety risk assessment processes. The economic driver for the operation of the oil refinery tends to be more important because of the generally huge initial financial outlay, and the eventual high costs of maintenance; hence health and safety risk management should have evidence of ensuring that the installations, as well as the people that work in them, are well catered for. In the Kuwait Gulf Oil Company this problem is more evident in newer installations where lean management processes have been instituted by oil firms so that they can reduce waste in the oil refining process without compromising the occupational health and safety needs of the refinery. Therein lies the initial problem of integrating health and safety risk assessment processes because most approaches concentrate on the technical elements of waste elimination while ignoring the social-cultural factors that impact on the health and safety of the workforce. This is an exploratory piece of research that examines the impact of rational and cognitive decision theories – herein called the psychology of risk – and how they impact on the occupational health and safety systems in the oil and gas refining sector of Kuwait. The research concludes that the application of lean concepts in the oil refining process is noble in itself but it needs to be integrated with the rational and cognitive detection factors that are necessary to incorporate and support the social-cultural tendencies of the workforce. The research recommends a framework for incorporating social-cultural values in the decision making process pertaining to health and safety risk assessment in oil refining process plants. Key Words: occupational health and safety risk assessment; lean management; social-cultural values; rational and cognitive decision making; oil and gas process plants.

The thesis focuses on one particular organization and analyzes its options for introducing an integrated management system. The author takes a close look at the processes of that organization, and makes a list of all the important things that are related to the processes (including their limits and conditions) and that should be carefully considered when the directives and regulations of the organization are being made.

MPM / Department of Public Health

Byggbranschen är en riskfylld industri med ett stort antal olyckor i jämförelse med andra branscher, vilket är en indikation på att åtgärder för att hindra detta krävs. Samtidigt har digitaliseringen framgångsrikt etablerats mer och mer trots att det gått långsamt jämfört med andra branscher. Många positiva effekter på arbetsmiljöarbetet har påvisats men än så länge har produktionen varit svår att nå. Frågan kring hur den svenska branschen ligger till med digitaliseringen för att förbättra arbetsmiljöarbetet kvarstår. Examensarbetets syfte är därmed att beskriva nuläget samt belysa möjligheter och utmaningar med digitaliseringen av arbetsmiljöarbetet. En annan anledning till studien är att identifiera viktiga faktorer för implementeringen av digitala verktyg och ta reda på hur framtiden kan se ut. En kvalitativ intervjustudie användes för datainsamlingen där nio respondenter deltog. Studiens resultat visar på att åtgärder och ansträngningar inom arbetsmiljöarbetet har förbättrats under de senaste åren men ännu finns det mycket kvar att göra. Våra resultat visade att digitala verktyg ofta används för arbetsmiljöarbetet men det uppstod en diskussion om vad som är digitalt och inte. Mallar i olika format används fortfarande i många situationer och ses inte som digitalt för alla. Det finns stora möjligheter med digitaliseringen av arbetsmiljöarbetet. Några av dem är ökad kontroll, tidsbesparingar och enklare kommunikation. Även då det finns stora möjligheter finns en del utmaningar bland annat antalet verktyg, en lagstiftning som fortfarande inte fullt ut tillåter en fullständig digitalisering för detta ändamål samt att det finns ett motstånd mot förändring. För att enklare kunna implementera digitala verktyg är det viktigt att visa på nyttan, börja smått, identifiera nyckelpersoner som kan leda förändringen och leverera tydliga strategier. I framtiden önskas mer standardiseringar, ökade krav från byggherrar samt ett större involverande från fler projektdeltagare. / The construction industry is hazardous with a high number of accidents compared to other industries, which is an indication that actions to prevent those are required. Meanwhile, digitalization is successively established in the construction industry, however, not with the same pace as in other industries. Digitalization generates several positive effects on occupational health and safety, but has so far had limited success in the production phase. As of today, the present status of digitalization in order to improve occupational health and safety in the Swedish construction industry remains unclear. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to identify the current status and describe the existing opportunities and challenges with digitalization for occupational health and safety. Moreover, another reason for this study is to identify important factors for the implementation of digital tools and find out what the future may hold. In order to study the present status, a qualitative interview study was performed for the data collection where nine representatives participated. The results of the study show that actions and efforts in occupational health and safety has improved over the last years, although much more is yet to be done. Furthermore, our results show that digital tools are often used in occupational health and safety. There is, however, a discussion around what is digital and what is not. Templates in different forms, for instance, are still used in various situations and are not to be seen as digital for some. As of today, there are great benefits with the digitalization of the work of occupational health and safety, including increased control, time savings and easier communication. On the other hand, there are a number of challenges, including the vast number of digital tools, a legislation that still not fully approves a complete digitalization for this purpose, and it exists a resistance to change. To be able to more easily implement digital tools, it is important to highlight benefits, start small, identify key persons that can lead the change and provide clear strategies. In the future, there is a wish for a greater degree of standardizations, increased requirements from clients and finally involvement of more project participants.

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