LABRST 3D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tennis Elbow, Occupational Safety And Health, Breast Cancer
3 Oct 2020
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Recognizing occupational injuries and illnesses is important for . Two opposing interests: workers with support of unions, community organizations (at times researchers can take on an advocacy role) Science is at the centre of the debate on work-relatedness. Dif cult to establish work-relatedness because of scienti c uncertainty. 1st form of uncertainty is over the way science is being done, so if a topic is understudied. Employers denying a link of disease as an effect of the work environment. Dif cult with rules of science to determine if something is work related burden of proof . In civil or administrative cases: ex. A case of workers compensation standard of proof = balance of probabilities (51%), you have to be more sure than not sure. In science: standard of proof = 95% con dence that you have found a link between two things and it is not due to chance.
