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“Flexible” Work Practices and Occupational Safety and Health: Exploring the Relationship Between Cumulative Trauma Disorders and Workplace Transformation
Author(s) -
Brenner Mark D.,
Fairris David,
Ruser John
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.0019-8676.2004.00325.x
Subject(s) - occupational safety and health , work (physics) , quality (philosophy) , production (economics) , cumulative trauma disorder , psychology , transformation (genetics) , human factors and ergonomics , operations management , medicine , poison control , environmental health , engineering , economics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , epistemology , pathology , gene , macroeconomics
This article matches establishment‐level data on workplace transformation (e.g., quality circles, work teams, and just‐in‐time production) with measures of cumulative trauma disorders at these same establishments to explore the relationship between “flexible” workplace practices and workplace health and safety. The results reveal a positive, statistically significant, and quantitatively sizable relationship between cumulative trauma disorders and the use of quality circles and just‐in‐time production.