Injury and the New World of Work by Terrence Sullivan

By Terrence Sullivan

This selection of essays offers 4 demanding situations: how the altering nature of labor is inflicting an increase in incapacity; prevention; rehabilitation; and the trouble of reconciling equity and sustainability in a aggressive period. It explores various coverage suggestions for facing this example.

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5 we show the average number of accepted industrial disease claims by major category for each decade in the study period. The disease categories were obtained by grouping the WCB industrial disease categories into five large categories: respiratory disease, hearing loss, repetitive stress injury (RSI), dermatitis, and diseases due to radiation exposure, plus an “other” category. The logic for this categorization was to select disease groups that remained fairly significant (mostly above 10 percent of disease claims) throughout the study period.

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6 claims per 1,000 insured workers. Claims for bursitis and carpal tunnel syndrome appear to follow this same pattern over time. Conclusion From the 1950s to the 1990s, the BC economy made a rapid and profound transition from a resource to a largely service economy. During this time, female participation in the labour force more than doubled and unemployment rates underwent a secular increase with a particularly severe increase during the first half of the 1980s. Major changes have also occurred during this time in the number and kinds of injury and industrial disease seen at the WCB.

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