Lost in translation? Challenges and opportunities for raising health and safety awareness among a multinational workforce in the United Arab Emirates

Safety and Health at Work

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 298-304

  Loney, Tom ^a   Cooling, Robert Fletcher ^a,b   Aw, Tar Ching ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b PARSONS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Occupational accidents; Occupational injuries; Safety management; Transients and migrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879020990     PISSN: 20937911     EISSN: 20937997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5491/SHAW.2012.3.4.298     Document Type: Article

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