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Sociology in the Workplace Hazardous Work

Describe the purpose and scope of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. What types of jobs are most dangerous to work in?

The purpose is to assess the amount of fatal accidents that occur on the workplace in any given year.

The scope of the Census is to describe the type of injuries that occur, or potentially occur on the workplace, that are considered serious or traumatic and that are contributory to death

Aside from defining context of 'work relationship', it also defines and specifies all the relations that are considered to fall within the perimeters of 'work relationship'. (Bureau of Labor statistics. Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) - Current and Revised Data http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm)

Based on information from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, how do jobs in the extractive industries rate?

A total of 120 fatal work injuries occurred in the oil and gas extraction industry in 2008. The three most frequent fatal events in 2008 were transportation incidents (41%), contact with objects and equipment (25%), and fires and explosions (15%) The three states with the most...

Workers age 25 to 34 incurred the most fatal work injuries (48 fatalities or 40% in 2008). The majority of the workers were White, non-Hispanic (75%), while 17% were Hispanic or Latino Support activities for oil and gas operations (NAICS 213112) account for about half of fatal work injuries from 2004 to 2008 in oil and gas industries on average, with 69 fatal work injuries recorded in 2008. Drilling oil and gas wells (NAICS 213111) averaged 34 fatal work injuries over the five-year period, with 37% of fatal work injuries resulting from contact with objects of equipment. Oil and Gas Extraction (NAICS 211111) had an average of 21 fatal work injuries. (Bureau of Labor Statistics. Oil and Gas Industry Fatal and Nonfatal Occupational Injuries. http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osh/os/osar0013.htm)
What three conclusions can you draw regarding the dangers in these workplaces? 1. Investiagitons need to be made into those states with the highest rate of casualties to assess reasons for rate and to see ways of improvement 2. The category of ethnic workers…

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It depends which studies you read, since there are studies that can point to either for evidence. There are also a great variety of workplaces and there are some workplaces that, relying increasingly more on computer, place skilled workers in deskilled positions where the computer does their work. On the other hand, there are certain environments that do demand more skills form workers. Ultimately, therefore, I find it hard to generalize since category of workplace, as well as particular ownership, influences demands and outcome.

The United States department of Labor (http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/herman/reports/futurework/conference/trends/trendsVII.htm)

seems to see the Upgrading Thesis as generally representative of today's workplace partially caused by the high unemployment rate and competition in college education that has stimulated competitive demand of upgrading of skills for employment. Many unskilled workers have also withdrawn from the labor force, and there is a declining gap in wage between genders and races. This also contributes to furtherance of competition resulting in raised expectations of skills.
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