Small enterprises - Accountants as occupational health and safety intermediaries

Safety Science

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 404-409

  Hasle, Peter ^a   Bager, Bo ^b   Granerud, Lise ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b Capacent   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accountants; Health and safety; Intermediaries; Small enterprises

Indexed keywords

DENMARK; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH AND SAFETY; INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVENTIVE MEASURES; SMALL ENTERPRISE; TRAINING ACTIVITIES; TRAINING SEMINAR;

HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCOUNTANT; ARTICLE; DENMARK; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 75149120954     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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