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Pucci, F.
Organizational Learning and Vocational Training for Hazard Management

Montevideo, Cinterfor/ILO, 2004
267p.

(Full text only available in Spanish in pdf format)

Hazard management constitutes both a social and institutional learning process. Since it refers to the management of uncertainty, actors do not count on established models of behaviour to adjust and they have to create, while doing, the mechanisms and attitudes to face different situations. The central argument of this book is that when "the culture of hazard" is more developed, learning will be more accessible and useful for actors involved, making it possible to achieve positive results in terms of minimizing hazards. This work analyses whether contemporary labour organizations develop logics of action that allow adequate answers to deal with hazards, exploring possible answers based on the discussion of two specific cases in Uruguay: the construction industry and one organization of the health system. The work opens the door to a review of the policies of hazard management and future vocational training.

 

INDEX

Preface
Introduction
1. The hazard problem
2. Different perspectives on hazard
3. Objectives and working hypotheses
4. Research methodology
5. Structure of the work

Chapter 1: Structural changes and hazard management
1.1. Simple modernity and reflexive modernity
1.2. Hazard societies
1.3. Hazard perception and acceptance
1.4. Hazard within the management context: acceptable hazard
1.5. Hazard in organizations
1.6. Hazard and new logics of action

Chapter 2: New forms of social action
2.1. Hazard and subjectivity
2.2. From strategic behaviour to common action
2.3. The cooperation problem
2.4. Translation
2.5. Rules construction
2.6. Hazard calculation
2.7. Irreversibility construction
2.8. Interdependence systems
2.9. Organizational learning and new logics of actions

Chapter 3: Hazard in the work processes in the construction industry
3.1. Working conditions in the construction industry
3.2. Research methodology
3.3. Changes in the productive organization
3.4. Productive changes in Uruguay
3.5. General characterization of the construction industry
3.6. Work processes in the construction industry
3.7. New technologies in the construction industry
3.8. Qualification and hazard
3.9. The entrepreneurs perspective
3.10. The Ministry of Health and Social Security perspective
3.11. The prevention technician role
3.12. The workers representative on safety issues
Conclusions

Chapter 4: Hazard on a health organization. The Hospital de Clinicas "Dr. Manuel Quintela"
4.1. The Hospital de Clínicas in the Uruguayan context
4.2. Research methodology
4.3. The Uruguayan health system
4.4. The Hospital de Clínicas history
4.5. Medical labour division and the main sectors studied
4.6. Hazard management in different areas and spaces
4.7. Transversal activities: circulation and treatment of dischargeable material
4.8. Hazard at the Centro de Materiales
4.9. The bargaining on the acceptable hazard thresholds
4.10. Hazard perception in a low qualified work context: the case of the hygiene and cleaning sector
4.11. Hazard and labour routines: the garbage recollection sector
4.12. The emergency sector
4.13. Consequences of the absence of formal authority: the Nutritional Department
4.14. The role of seniority: the health centres sector
4.15. Absenteeism and overload of work as a hazard factor in the Surgical Hospitalisation Services and the Centre of Intensive Care

Conclusions
General Conclusions

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