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Harmonisation of OH&S regulations
No full textPolicy instruments of education, regulation, fines and inspection have all been\ud
utilised by Australian jurisdictions as they attempt to improve the poor performance of\ud
occupational health and safety (OH&S) in the construction industry. However, such\ud
policy frameworks have been largely uncoordinated across Australia, resulting in\ud
differing policy systems, with differing requirements and compliance systems. Such\ud
complexity, particularly for construction firms operating across jurisdictional borders,\ud
led to various attempts to improve the consistency of OH&S regulation across\ud
Australia, four of which will be reviewed in this report.\ud
1. The first is the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991 (Commonwealth)\ud
which enabled certain organisations to opt out of state based regulatory\ud
regimes.\ud
2. The second is the development of national standards, codes of practice and\ud
guidance documents by the National Occupational Health and Safety Council\ud
(NOHSC). The intent was that the OHS requirements, principles and practices\ud
contained in these documents would be adopted by state and territory\ud
governments into their legislation and policy, thereby promoting regulatory\ud
consistency across Australia.\ud
3. The third is the attachment of conditions to special purpose payments from the\ud
Commonwealth to the States, in the form of OH&S accreditation with the\ud
Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner.\ud
4. The fourth is the development of national voluntary codes of OHS practice for\ud
the construction industry.\ud
It is interesting to note that the tempo of change has increased significantly since\ud
2003, with the release of the findings of the Cole Royal Commission. This paper\ud
examines and evaluates each of these attempts to promote consistency across\ud
Australia. It concludes that while there is a high level of information sharing between\ud
jurisdictions, particularly from the NOSHC standards, a fragmented OH&S policy\ud
framework still remains in place across Australia. The utility of emergent industry\ud
initiatives such as voluntary codes and guidelines for safer construction practices to\ud
enhance consistency are discussed
Harmonisation of OH&S regulation in Australia : an evaluation of three initiatives
No full textAustralian Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) regulatory regimes are fragmented across differing systems and compliance requirements in multiple jurisdictions. We argue that harmonisation offers a way of establishing adaptive OH&S which may facilitate better OH&S outcomes within the construction industry. Three initiatives which sought to improve the effectiveness of OH&S measures in Australia are evaluated:\ud
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Comare, which enabled certain organisations to opt out of state based workplace health and safety insurance schemes into a national scheme; National Occupational Health and Safety Council standards, codes of practice and guidance documents; and\ud
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Australian Government Building and Construction Occupational Health and Safety Accreditation Scheme, implemented by the Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner It concludes that while there is a high level of information sharing between jurisdictions, a fragmented OH&S policy framework remains in place. A list of harmonisation mechanisms which can assist in determining appropriate co-ordination mechanisms in OH&S systems is advanced
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Harmonisation of OH&S regulations
Full text linkPolicy instruments of education, regulation, fines and inspection have all been utilised by Australian jurisdictions as they attempt to improve the poor performance of occupational health and safety (OH&S) in the construction industry. However, such policy frameworks have been largely uncoordinated across Australia, resulting in differing policy systems, with differing requirements and compliance systems. Such complexity, particularly for construction firms operating across jurisdictional borders, led to various attempts to improve the consistency of OH&S regulation across Australia, four of which will be reviewed in this report. 1. The first is the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991 (Commonwealth) which enabled certain organisations to opt out of state based regulatory regimes. 2. The second is the development of national standards, codes of practice and guidance documents by the National Occupational Health and Safety Council (NOHSC). The intent was that the OHS requirements, principles and practices contained in these documents would be adopted by state and territory governments into their legislation and policy, thereby promoting regulatory consistency across Australia. 3. The third is the attachment of conditions to special purpose payments from the Commonwealth to the States, in the form of OH&S accreditation with the Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner. 4. The fourth is the development of national voluntary codes of OHS practice for the construction industry. It is interesting to note that the tempo of change has increased significantly since 2003, with the release of the findings of the Cole Royal Commission. This paper examines and evaluates each of these attempts to promote consistency across Australia. It concludes that while there is a high level of information sharing between jurisdictions, particularly from the NOSHC standards, a fragmented OH&S policy framework still remains in place across Australia. The utility of emergent industry initiatives such as voluntary codes and guidelines for safer construction practices to enhance consistency are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Effects of Contact Force and Vibration Frequency on Vibrotactile Sensitivity During Active Touch
No full textHumans require precise force control to execute fine manual tasks, which is generally facilitated to a great extent by providing adequate feedback. Currently, such dexterous manual tasks can be an input source of computing. To design appropriate vibrotactile stimuli for manual tasks, it is essential to quantify human vibrotactile sensitivity over a large range of contact forces. In this paper, we report the psychophysical detection thresholds for vibrotactile stimuli measured for five pressing forces that cover the range of forces encountered during ordinary manual tasks. The experimental results showed stark contrasts between stimulus frequencies, depending on actively exerted pressing force. The detection thresholds for 40 & x00A0;Hz stimuli first increased and then decreased as the pressing force increased, but the detection threshold for 250 & x00A0;Hz stimuli generally decreased as the force increased. These results have immediate consequences on the design of vibrotactile feedback for manual tasks in many applications of tangible interaction, tele-operation, and VR.11Nsciescopu
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