التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Funeral Industry Workers' Work Health and Safety in Australia and Ireland. |
| المؤلفون: |
Roche, Natalie, Darzins, Susan, Stuckey, Rwth |
| المصدر: |
Omega: Journal of Death & Dying; Aug2024, Vol. 89 Issue 3, p873-894, 22p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
DEATH, FUNERAL industry, WORK environment, INTERVIEWING, CULTURE, BLUE collar workers, SURVEYS, THEMATIC analysis, MATHEMATICAL models, RESEARCH methodology, PSYCHOLOGICAL stress, JOB stress, INTERMENT, THEORY, INDUSTRIAL safety, INDUSTRIAL hygiene, PSYCHOSOCIAL factors |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
IRELAND, AUSTRALIA |
| مستخلص: |
Funeral workers (FWs) work within increasingly medicalized and commodified death-management systems. This study explored Worker Health and Safety (WHS) impacts in contemporary death management on Australian and Irish FWs. Mixed methods combined a survey and interviews. Survey data were descriptively summarized, interviews thematically analyzed, and a schematic systems model developed of the combined results. Survey participants (n = 45) reported psychosocial hazards from work pressures, competition, and fatigue. Psychosocial hazards were more frequently reported than physical hazards by Australian FWs. Physical hazards were of greater concern to Irish FWs. Themes from 11 interviews were: Personal Attributes, Work Demands, and Socio-Cultural Context. All FWs reported conflicts between individual capacities, work demands, and resources, resulting in hazardous personal states including difficulty sleeping and stress. Respectfully manually handling human remains and "event management" demands for increasingly elaborate funerals created negative WHS impacts. This research informs risk management for FWs and other workers in the increasingly complex death-care industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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