Occupational accidents in Belgian industry in restructuring contexts

International audience ; The link between restructuring operations and the increase of accidents for blue-collar workers in plants is well proved by academic literature. However, several large industrial companies publish accidents decrease indicators in spite of the continuous restructuring operations. A monograph on a multinational steel corporation shows that this paradox is explained by two factors : risk prevention measures introduced by the management for various reasons (moral, financial, competitive, media-related); development of diverse forms of “quantitative disappearance” of injuri... Mehr ...