ABSTRACT
There is a very large and diverse literature on interventions for improving workplace safety. Safety solutions vary enormously in scope and in type of approach taken. For example, solutions may involve simply the provision of safety information in passive form, such as posters and leaflets, or active forms, like safety lectures, or much more complex interventions such as those involving behaviour modification methods (Hale and Glendon, 1987). The main focus of workplace safety interventions is most often to reduce the risk of exposure to hazards and to prevent injury from occurring, although preventive efforts may also take a more protective focus with interventions to reduce the severity of injury or attempt to ameliorate the injury and shorten the time needed for rehabilitation after an injury has occurred. In Menckel’s chapter in this part the implications of these different types of prevention are discussed in some detail.
