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Occupational Health and Safety for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises.

THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM IDENTIFYING BEST PRACTICES: THE CURRENT VOLUME OUTLINE OF THIS VOLUME REFERENCES Obstacles, challenges and potential solutions OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES SAFETY CULTURE AND SAFETY CLIMATE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES CHALLENGES FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SAFETY CLIMATE Management Commitment to Safety Efficacy of Safety Management Systems Work Environment: Hazards and Risk Management POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS: DEVELOPMENT OF SAFETY CULTURE Direct Cultural Change: Changing Norms and Attitudes Changing to an Informed Culture: Communication and Feedback Changing from the Top: Safety Leadership CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES Beyond hard hats and harnesses: how small construction companies manage safety effectively UNIQUE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH SAFETY IN SMALL COMPANIES DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW ACCIDENT COMPANIES METHOD Phase I: Interview Protocol Phase II: Identifying High and Low Injury Rate Companies Phase III: Interviews RESULTS Demographic Comparison between High and Low Claim Companies DISCUSSION Limitations and Future Research Implications for Small Companies CONCLUSIONS NOTES REFERENCES Workplace violence in small and medium sized enterprises DEFINING WORKPLACE AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE THE PREVALENCE OF WORKPLACE VIOLENCE The Accuracy of Prevalence Estimates Sampling limitations Inconsistent definitions and operationalizations Prevalence Estimates US prevalence data Nova Scotia Stress Survey Statistics Canada Victimization Study SOURCES OF WORKPLACE VIOLENCE The Cal OSHA Framework Prevalence by Source Occupational Risk Factors Gender Age Violence in Small Business INTERVENTIONS Type I Violence Increasing visibility Reducing rewards Target hardening Effectiveness of CPTED Type II Violence Environmental strategies Organizational/administrative strategies Behavioral/interpersonal strategies CONCLUSION: WORKPLACE VIOLENCE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES NOTE REFERENCES Hidden occupational fatalities in the agricultural industry SUICIDE IN THE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY RISK FACTORS OF SUICIDE EXPOSURE TO FARM STRESSORS EXPOSURES TO ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDES ADDRESSING THE HIDDEN OCCUPATIONAL FATALITIES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REFERENCES Small and medium sized enterprises: health, well-being, stress and stress management WHY SHOULD SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES PAY ATTENTION TO HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND STRESS?STRESS MANAGEMENT STRESS AND STRESS MANAGEMENT: FROM LARGE COMPANY TO SME CAUSES OF STRESS IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES SELF EMPLOYED OWNER-MANAGERS IMPACT OF RECESSION AND ECONOMIC CLIMATE REGULATIONS AND ADVICE AVAILABLE TO SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES WHAT SHOULD SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES DO ABOUT STRESS AND STRESS MANAGEMENT?HEALTH AND WELL-BEING RESOURCES SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION REFERENCES The work-family nexus and small to medium sized enterprises: implications for worker well-being ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF WORK- LIFE BALANCE Time Demands Dependents Health and Well-Being Work Performance ENHANCING WORK-LIFE BALANCE WITHIN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED COMPANIES ENTREPRENEURS AND THE WORK-FAMILY NEXUS CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES Sexual harassment: a big issue for small and medium sized enterprises?WHAT IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT?SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES A Cautionary Note SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLIMATE Climate for Sexual Harassment and SMEs SME climate for sexual harassment: incidence and effects SME climate for sexual harassment: target coping SME climate for sexual harassment: bystander intervention WORKFORCE COMPOSITION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES Blurring the Boundaries: SME Workforce Composition and Harassment Spillover ‘Family’ Loyalties: SME Workforce Composition and Whistle-Blowing RECOMMENDATIONS Develop and Implement Policies, Procedures, and Practices to Limit Sexual Harassment in SMEs Ensure Leaders are Adequately Trained to Deal with Sexual Harassment Collect Data on Organizational Size CONCLUSION NOTE REFERENCES Small and medium sized enterprises as healthy workplaces DEFINING HEALTHY WORKPLACES HEALTHY WORKPLACE MODELS Summary THE IMPACT OF HEALTHY WORKPLACES Workplace Characteristics: Physical and Psychosocial Health SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES HEALTHY WORKPLACE COMPONENTS IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES Health and Safety in the Work Environment A Culture of Support, Respect and Fairness Interpersonal Relationships Employee Involvement and Development Work Content and Characteristics Work-Life Balance FAMILY BUSINESSES: A SPECIAL CASE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZES ENTERPRISES HEALTHY WORKPLACES AS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES DISCUSSION CONCLUDING REMARKS REFERENCES

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I introduction: occupational health and safety in small and medium sized enterprises
E. Kevin Kelloway and Cary L. Cooper Although small and medium sized enterprises play a vital role in the economy, issues of occupational health and safety are often ignored in such organizations. Researchers in occupational health and safety, as in other areas of organizational research, typically focus...
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OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES
One of the reasons why SMEs experience significantly higher levels of workplace accidents and injuries is due to their relative exposure to risk. There is evidence that SMEs tend to operate in more hazardous work environments than larger organizations, thus directly increasing the likelihood of accidents....
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SAFETY CULTURE AND SAFETY CLIMATE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES
A positive organizational ‘safety culture’ is reflected in the company’s safety policies, procedures and practices; these are largely determined by senior managerial decisions concerning the management of hazards. Indeed, decision-making at a senior management level in relation to hazards has been...
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CHALLENGES FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SAFETY CLIMATE
Much of the research conducted on safety climate has focused on large organizations. However, there are a few studies that have included organizations of varying sizes, in order to investigate the impact of organizational size on the level of safety climate. Baek, Bae, Ham and Singh (2008) investigated...
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Small and medium sized enterprises: health, well-being, stress and stress management
Sheena Johnson INTRODUCTION The workplace has been shown to have an influence on human health and well-being. Uncertainty, job stress and work organization being major factors, particularly in knowledge economies such as the UK (Schulte and Vainio, 2010). The importance of well-being at work is...
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WHY SHOULD SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES PAY ATTENTION TO HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND STRESS?
The costs of ill-health in the working age population are estimated in the UK at about ?100 billion a year (Black, 2008) with mental ill health costing around ?28 billion (National Institute for Clinical Excellence [NICE], 2009) and absence alone costing around ?16.8 billion (Confederation of British...
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Mainstreaming the Use of Life Cycle Management in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Using a Sector Based and Regional Approach
Naeem Adibi, Vanessa Pasquet, Aubin Roy, Alice Salamon, Jodie Bricout, Catherine Beutin, Quentin Renault, Marie Darul, François Xavier Callens, Marc Haquette, Patrick Orlans, Jeanne Meillier, Joanne Boudehenn, Sophie Reynaud, Sophie Cabaret, Christophe Bogaert, and Christelle Demaretz Abstract Although...
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Workplace violence in small and medium sized enterprises
E. Kevin Kelloway and Michael Teed Research on workplace violence has proliferated in recent years (Kelloway et al., 2005) reflecting the concerns that all organizations share about the risks entailed. Sufficient data have now accumulated to allow a clear picture of what the risks of workplace violence...
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CAUSES OF STRESS IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES
There are conflicting views of what it is like to work in a SME, with some theorists describing opposing viewpoints, for example: SMEs are happy places to work, more informal than larger organizations and with good working conditions (e.g. Goss, 1991) and; SMEs are places of exploitation with often poor...
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REGULATIONS AND ADVICE AVAILABLE TO SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES
There is a legal duty for organizations to assess the risk of stress-related ill health arising from work activities, described in the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations, 1999 (Health and Safety Executive [HSE], 1999). Employers have a ‘duty of care’ that employees not be made ill...
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