Search for dissertations about: "professional risk assessment"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 41 swedish dissertations containing the words professional risk assessment.
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1. Assessment and design of industrial manual handling to reduce physical ergonomics hazards : – use and development of assessment tools
Abstract : Despite efforts of reducing harmful physical ergonomics exposures related to manual handling, the occurrence of heavy or repetitive manual handling, and non-neutral postures is high in many occupational sectors. To reduce these exposures, interventions and job design strategies can utilize risk assessment. READ MORE
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2. Children at risk? Hospital social workers’ and their colleagues’ assessment and reporting experiences
Abstract : This thesis explores factors that influence professional discretion in Swedish hospital professionals’ assessment of children who may be at risk of harm. It is based on two data samplings, interviews with fourteen hospital social workers and a questionnaire with 295 responding physicians, nurses, nurse assistants and hospital social workers. READ MORE
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3. Violence risk assessment in male and female mentally disordered offenders : differences and similarities
Abstract : When assessing the risk of violence, increasing interest has been shown in bringing science and practice closer together. Moving from clinical intuition in the first generation of risk assessment via actuarial scales in the second generation to the structured professional judgments where risk assessments are today produces better, more valid results when assessing the risk of violence. READ MORE
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4. Opening the black box of mathematics teachers’ professional growth : a study of the process of teacher learning
Abstract : There is a lot of research done on professional development programs for teachers, especially with a focus on different characteristics of the program and whether it makes teachers change their teaching practice to such an extent that it enhances student achievement. However, there is not much research done on the learning process. READ MORE
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5. Estimations of Hydrogeological Properties in Vulnerability and Risk Assessments
Abstract : The main objective of this thesis was to evaluate and develop approaches for hydrogeological vulnerability and risk assessments, starting with scant data and updating the results as new information becomes available. This work was performed within three separate projects between 1989 and 1995. READ MORE