Is fixed-term employment a new risk for adverse physical working conditions? |
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Authors: | Antti Saloniemi Pekka Virtanen Anna-Maija Koivisto |
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Institution: | Work Research Centre, 33014 University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland. antti.saloniemi@uta.fi |
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Abstract: | Relationships between employment type and the physical work environment were studied among blue-collar workers (n = 1,127). Based on survey data, we set out to compare the evaluations of environmental load and physical strain at work given by fixed-term (17% of all) and permanent workers. The type of employment was not related to environmental load. However, working on a fixed-term basis increased the risk of physical strain at work. Analyses revealed that this connection was evident only among fixed-term construction workers. The results did not support the much-cited view that the disintegration of standard employment has given rise to a new series of work environment problems. Such problems are concentrated in an area with a long tradition of work environment problems, that is, in the construction industry. |
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