Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Ethics and choosing appropiate means to an end : problems with coal mine and nuclear workplace safety

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Ethics and choosing appropiate means to an end : problems with coal mine and nuclear workplace safety / Kristin Shrader-Frechette and Roger Cooke

Employers and employees may desire the safety end mandated by performance standards for pollution control, but they may fail to employ the means, specification standards, necesary to achieve this end. This article argues that current( de jure) performance standards, for lowering employee exposures to ionizing radiation, fail to promote "de facto" worker welfare, in part beaucuse employers and employees do not follow the neccesary means ( practices known as specifications standards) to achieve the ends(performance standars) of workplace safety

En: Risk analysis : an international journal. - New York and London. - February 2004 ; p. 147-156

1. Trabajadores . 2. Minas de carbón . 3. Centrales nucleares . 4. Condiciones de trabajo . I. Cooke, Roger . II. Título. III. Título: Risk analysis : an international journal.