This textbook provides workers and students with an introduction to effective injury prevention. It pays particular attention to how issues of precarious employment, gender, and ill-health can be better handled in Canadian occupational health and safety (OHS). Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces offers an extensive overview of central OHS concepts and practices and provides practical suggestions for health and safety advocacy. It attempts to bring OHS into a twenty-first century context by discussing contemporary workplaces and the health effects of new work processes and structures while recognizing that safety has gendered and racialized dimensions. Foster and Barnetson contend that the practice of occupational health and safety can only be understood if we acknowledge that workers and employers have conflicting interests.

About the Author
Jason Foster is assistant professor of human resources and labour relations at Athabasca University. He was previously the director of policy analysis at the Alberta Federation of Labour where he spent more than a decade as an occupational health and safety practitioner, advocate, and educator. Bob Barnetson is a professor of labour relations at Athabasca University. He is the author of The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada (2010) and coeditor of Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustice and Activism (2016). His research focuses on the political economy of workplace injuries, with particular attention to child, migrant, and farm workers. Formerly, Bob worked for a trade union, the Alberta Workers' Compensation Board, the Alberta Labour Relations Board, and Alberta Employment and Immigration.


Book Information
ISBN 9781771991834
Author Jason Foster
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint AU Press
Publisher AU Press