Exploring the Importance of the Management of Health and Safety Risks
This paper examines the employee’s perceptions about Health and Safety Risks in the Organizations specifically the violence, included harassment (moral and sexual) phenomena considered emerging risk by EU-OSHA. Questions surveyed adapted from European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks questionnaire with data collected(N =407).The results show that health and safety risks are affected by obstacles like a lack of resources such as time, staff or money, a lack of awareness, a lack of training and or expertise, a lack of technical support or guidance, culture within the establishment, and sensitivity of the issue, as well as the difficulties and obstacles in dealing with the risks significantly affect the management and decision making.
Violence at Work
Part 1 Understanding violence at work: introduction - a catalyst for action patterns and trends explanations. Part 2 Responding to violence at work: legislative and regulatory interventions guidelines and best practice international action. Part 3 Future guidance: beyond violence - lessons for future action.
[Inequalities in mortality, space and social strata].
OBJECTIVE
A description of the mortality differentials in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, is presented.


METHODS
An ecological study was carried out. The city was divided into 75 information areas and its population into six social strata. Standardized Mortality Rates, Age Specific Mortality Rates, Proportional Infant Mortality and the Proportional Mortality Ratio were calculated for each region and social strata. Data were obtained from Death Certificates and the Populational Census.


RESULTS
The mortality ratio difference between the strata with best living conditions and the poorer strata ranged from 43.1% to 142.0% which corresponds to an inequality ratio ranging from 1.4 to 2.4. When that analysis was carried out in smaller areas, these differences reached 656.3%.


CONCLUSIONS
These findings show the persistence of health inequalities in Salvador in more serious disproportion than that found in other studies. Despite the methodological problems related to the nature of the data and the study, project the authors it was highlight, the meaning of this kind of research concerned with new approaches to health planning and health promotion.