{"product_id":"9781771991858","title":"Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces","description":"Workplace injuries happen every day  and can profoundly affect workers, their  families, and the communities in which  they live. This textbook is for workers  and students looking for an introduction  to injury prevention on the job. It offers an extensive overview of central occupational health and safety (OHS)  concepts and practices and provides practical  suggestions for health and safety  advocacy. Foster and Barnetson bring  the field into the twenty-first century by  including discussions of how precarious  employment, gender, and ill-health can be  better handled in Canadian OHS.   Although they address the gendered  and racialized dimensions of new work  processes and structures in contemporary  workplaces, 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. Who  identifies what workplace hazards should  be controlled is therefore a product of the  broader political economy of employment  and one that should be well understood  by those working in the field.","brand":"Athabasca University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181226770672,"sku":"9781771991858","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781771991858_p0.jpg?v=1763737698","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771991858","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}