Since every Safety Management System (SMS) is intended to provide a framework by which an organisation manages risk, it is inevitable that accident investigators will take a close interest. The good investigator will always want to understand how the SMS was intended to control risk and how this...

Aufgrund der erwarteten positiven Auswirkungen auf die Leistung der Beschäftigten, wird die Methode des Führens durch Ziele in einem Großteil der deutschen Unternehmen angewandt. Befragungen weisen jedoch darauf hin, dass das Führen durch Ziele auch mit negativen Auswirkungen in Verbindung...

This paper discusses obstacles faced in implementing SMS and uses concrete examples to show how to overcome them across all modes of transport (air, maritime, rail and road) in leading countries, particularly ITF member countries. The difficulties and problems in implementing SMS can originate...

In almost all cases, the transport industry has adopted safety management systems (SMS) in response to a regulatory initiative. SMS vary dramatically across transport modes and jurisdictions - often because of the influence of different legacy regulatory programmes, and the attendant cultures....

System resilience is the ability for complex, dynamic-adaptive socio-technical systems to absorb and rebound from trauma or stress, and to avoid "jousting with dragons" where results are uncertain and often fatal. In a safety context, the term "dragons" originates from Professor David Woods at...

Ausgewertet werden 24 Regelungen aus über 20 Jahren Vereinbarungspraxis. Quer durch unterschiedliche Branchen geht es um Umgangsweisen mit Überlastungs- bzw. Gefährdungsanzeigen. Welche Ursachen haben Überlastungssituationen? Wie wird die Interessenvertretung eingebunden? Wie gestaltet sich...

The effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on unemployment and employment levels is still an unresolved issue in the literature. To tackle this issue is the aim of this meta-analysis. Drawing on evidence from 72 studies, I find that EPL has no statistically significant effect on the...

This paper considers the role of flexicurity when jobs must be reallocated from a declining, traditional sector to a skill intensive expanding sector. Workers initially decide whether to acquire qualifications for skill-intensive tasks or to accept a less demanding traditional job. Unemployment...

Law 183 of 2014, evocatively named the "Jobs Act", has determined a deep change in the Italian industrial relations. Bringing at completion a reform process begun in the 1990s, the Jobs Act has introduced a new contract type - "contratto a tutele crescenti" - implying a substantial downsize of...

Deunionizing the private sector -- Taking aim at the 88% : remaking the non-union economy -- The destruction of public schooling -- Silencing labor's voice : the campaign to remove unions from politics

Migrant workers protection policy in ASEAN : background -- Towards a new policy analysis of two-level sociological institutionalism -- Existing ASEAN frameworks and developments within the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) -- The present and future of workers migration in ASEAN : perspectives from...

Introduction -- Benefit adequacy and equity -- The challenge of return to work in workers' compensation -- Workers' compensation and incentives for preventing injuries -- Conclusion -- References -- Authors -- Index -- About the Institute