Within the operating theatre, perioperative practitioners will use a variety of different pieces of equipment to help them carry out their role and care for patients undergoing anaesthesia and surgery. Whether it is checking an anaesthetic machine, handling surgical instruments, or setting up an analgesic pump in the post-anaesthetic care unit, the management of medical equipment requires more understanding than just simply using it. This chapter explores the procurement, use, and maintenance of medical equipment.

This chapter focused on the notion that life balance can be achieved, at least partly, through engagement in social roles in work and nonwork domains. This is explained through the principle of satisfaction limits. Three strategies were described: (1) avoid putting all your egs in one basket, (2) contemplate the ideal life, and (3) assess how much time you spend in what role and reallocate time.

This chapter focuses on how people achieve life balance by actively engaging in social roles in multiple life domains such as health, love, family, material, social, work, leisure, and culture. The wellbeing effect is explained through the principle of satisfaction of the full spectrum of human developmental needs.

Workers have a right to feel safe in their workplaces and employers have a responsibility to ensure that workers have a safe work environment. Employers also have the opportunity to protect the health of their employees which can help improve their overall health and well-being. An effective occupational health and safety (OHS) program reduces injuries and illnesses, work absenteeism and staff turnover and improves staff morale, operational efficiency, productivity, and work cover insurance premiums. The strength of an organisation as a preferred place to be employed often relates to its attention to OHS. Occupational health nurses (OHNs) play an important role in ensuring safety and promoting healthy workplaces. This chapter begins with a discussion of OHS. The roles and major responsibilities of the OHN, which vary depending on the size and nature of the organisation, are also explored. This chapter explains the importance and key components of OHS, identifies how OHNs support safe work policies and strategies, and describes how OHNs contribute to health-promoting workplaces.

Workers have a right to feel safe in their workplaces and employers have a responsibility to ensure that workers have a safe work environment. Employers also have the opportunity to protect the health of their employees which can help improve their overall health and well-being. An effective occupational health and safety (OHS) program reduces injuries and illnesses, work absenteeism and staff turnover and improves staff morale, operational efficiency, productivity, and work cover insurance premiums. The strength of an organisation as a preferred place to be employed often relates to its attention to OHS. Occupational health nurses (OHNs) play an important role in ensuring safety and promoting healthy workplaces. This chapter begins with a discussion of OHS. The roles and major responsibilities of the OHN, which vary depending on the size and nature of the organisation, are also explored. This chapter explains the importance and key components of OHS, identifies how OHNs support safe work policies and strategies, and describes how OHNs contribute to health-promoting workplaces.

The focus of discussion in this chapter is on occupational stress and health of women in Asian contexts. There are similarities of occupational health and illness between Asian and Western women, and occupational health in Asian contexts is more related to culture, with working women expected to fulfill traditional modest feminist and family responsibilities. Two cases in Asian countries are examined in depth, Bangladesh and China, to illustrate the intersection role of culture and gender on occupational stress and health.

Chapter 5 draws on the survey data to show how private standards are implemented in the field. It introduces three avenues through which standards may address different definitions of sustainability: to drive sustainable intensification, to shift time horizons backward, or to act as payments for social and ecosystem services. It then evaluates standards’ success by evaluating a range of production practices in each category. It shows that particularly industry-friendly standards encourage farmers to intensify their production, with moderate success, but that simultaneous decreases in input use are rarer. Improvements in practices that encourage farmers to make short-term investments for longer-term gains in terms of health or farm resilience can be observed, but often depend on outside financial support. Finally, the chapter finds very few improvements in practices that constitute long-term opportunity costs, for two reasons: one, over time many standards have lowered the stringency of their requirements for high-opportunity-cost practices such as the maintenance of permanent shade cover. Two, even when rules are binding (e.g., minimum wage laws), they are not always followed.