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"« Au cours des douze derniers mois, vous est-il arrivé d'interrompre ou de refuser une tâche pour préserver votre santé ou votre sécurité ? » 12 % des salariés ont répondu par l'affirmative à cette question dans l'enquête Sumer 2010. Par rapport aux autres salariés, ils sont exposés à davantage de risques professionnels, et ont eu plus d'accidents de travail. Certains contextes de travail mettent plus souvent les salariés en position d'interrompre ou de refuser une tâche. Cela tient à la nature du poste de travail, mais aussi à l'organisation du travail et aux relations sociales avec les collègues, les supérieurs ou le public. Sept profils distincts ont été dégagés, qui rassemblent entre 8 % et 22 % des salariés ayant interrompu ou refusé une tâche."

"This study of working conditions in shoemaking in the informal sector in Indonesia and the Philippines, along with their gender dimensions and national and international policy implications, is based on the author's experience in both countries during 2002, with applied qualitative research techniques: in-depth interviews and worksite visits. The use of organic solvents makes shoemaking a particularly hazardous occupation. The book illustrates the global need for safe and healthy chemical alternatives and for their introduction at the beginning of use and supply chain applications. The study also presents the complexity of the problem when considering the introduction of safer alternatives at the source. While home-based shoemakers may influence certain aspects of their work environment, they seldom can undertake efficient preventive measures to mitigate chemical and dust exposures at the bottom of the production process. Homes have been converted into unsafe footwear-manufacturing units, with serious solvent and dust exposures and a spectrum of other hazards. All family members, adults and children, may work in home-based footwear production. Low-cost shoe production takes advantage of sex-segregated job tasks and minimal investments in working conditions.
Use of chemicals in shoemaking is just one example of how global markets have introduced chemicals, materials, and production processes into developing nations. Hazardous working conditions and inadequate health protection are the product of complex relationships among diverse "actors" or agents at international, national, community, and industry levels."

"En 2010, 12 % des salariés ayant répondu à l'enquête SUMER (soit près de 5 900 personnes) ont été amenés à interrompre ou refuser une tâche pour préserver leur santé ou leur sécurité. Tous les secteurs, toutes les catégories socio-professionnelles et tous les statuts sont concernés. L'analyse a identifié 7 profils de conditions de travail chez ces salariés. À côté des conditions de travail difficiles, la mauvaise santé des salariés ou la présence d'instances représentatives du personnel sont des facteurs favorisant les interruptions ou refus de tâche. Enfin, la moitié des salariés a effectué cette démarche dans un cadre collectif."

"Today, hazardous work kills 2.3 million people each year and injures millions more. Among the most compelling yet controversial forms of legal protection for workers is the right to refuse unsafe work. The rise of globalization, precarious work, neoliberal politics, attacks on unions, and the idea of individual employment rights have challenged the protection of occupational health and safety for workers worldwide. In Hazard or Hardship, Jeffrey Hilgert presents the protection of refusal rights as a moral and a human rights question.Hilgert finds that the protection of the right to refuse unsafe work, as constituted under international labor standards, is a failure and calls for a reexamination of worker health and safety policy from the ground up. The current model of protection follows an individual employment rights framework, which fails to protect workers against the inherent social inequalities within the employment relationship. To adequately protect the right to refuse as a human right, both in North America and around the world, Hilgert argues that a broader protection must be granted under a freedom of association framework. Hazard or Hardship will be a welcome resource for labor and environmental activists, trade union leaders, labor lawyers and labor law scholars, industrial relations experts, human rights advocates, public health professionals, and specialists in occupational safety and health."

"One recent finding about the prostitution market is the differences in the extent
and nature of violence experienced between women who work on the street and
those who work from indoor sex work venues.This paper brings together extensive
qualitative fieldwork from two cities in the UK to unpack the intricacies in relation
to violence and safety for indoor workers. Firstly, we document the types of
violence women experience in indoor venues noting how the vulnerabilities surrounding work-based hazards are dependent on the environment in which sex is sold. Secondly, we highlight the protection strategies that indoor workers and management develop to maintain safety and order in the establishment. Thirdly, we use these empirical findings to suggest that violence should be a high priority on the policy agenda. Here we contend that the organizational and cultural conditions that seem to offer some protection from violence in indoor settings could be useful for informing the management of street sex work. Finally, drawing on the crime prevention literature,we argue that it is possible to go a considerable way to designing out vulnerability in sex work, but not only through physical and organizational
change but building in respect for sex workers rights by developing policies that promote the employment/human rights and citizenship for sex workers. This argument is made in light of the Coordinated Prostitution Strategy."