Evolving
Work Environment in New Zealand: Implications for Occupational Health
and Safety
The
project will consider the following specific trends in the New Zealand
work environment over the last two decades and their implications
for occupational heath and safety:
- age and gender
trends in the workforce
- changes in work
patterns including:
- total work hours
- non-standard
hours
- shift work
- on-call work
- week-end work
- expansion of
24/7
- work/care load
- changes in the
type of work including:
- expansion of
the service sector
- impacts of Information
Technology
- moving skilled
and unskilled work offshore
- mechanization
- complexity of
technology
- reduction in
physical activity
- changes in job
structure including:
- part-time work
- multiple jobs
- employment stability
- re-training
- redundancy
- delayed retirement
- working from
home casualisation of the workforce
- changes in workforce
representation including:
- unionisation
- individual contracts
- contracting
The project
is being undertaken by the Workplace Research Centre, Sydney University.
The final report will be released in June 2009.
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