Providing an integrated analysis of the occupational health and safety problem, this book aims to bring the various social science, medical, ergonomic and other perspectives to bear on occupational health by going beyond the current technical and legalistic approaches to the subject and highlighting the immensity of management and workers behaviour. By addressing this gap the authors hope to provide students with a better understanding of how and why occupational health and safety problems arise, how governments, employers, unions, workers themselves and other interested parties have attempted to deal with them, and how more effective occupational health and safety programmes can be developed. This book is aimed at occupational health and safety students.