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Editorial scope

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety is a forum for intellectual discussion and analysis on policy and practice in preventive occupational safety and health.

Papers covering the following topics are particularly welcome:

changing contexts of employment and work
international regulation, inspection and control
change and the health and safety professions
international health and safety systems
developments in occupational safety and health management
workplace health promotion
labour relations
economics
links between compensation, rehabilitation and prevention systems
education and training
risk, society and occupational health
gender
political perspectives – regulation, deregulation, employability, exporting risks
crime, punishment and systems of criminal justice
environmental protection and occupational safety and health
quality in all aspects of occupational safety and health
specific issues such as violence, work-related stress
risk assessment and control.

The detail and context of policy and practice in health and safety are always changing, so these topics are just suggestions. Papers on other subjects are also welcome. If you have an idea for a paper and want to check if it's suitable, send an outline to the Editor.

Manuscripts and editorial correspondence

All manuscripts and editorial correspondence should be sent by email to David Walters or saved onto a CD and posted to:

David Walters, Professor of Work Environment
Cardiff University
School of Social Sciences
Glamorgan Building
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff
CF10 3WT
UK

Papers should normally be between 6,000 and 9,000 words in length, although longer submissions will be considered.

Text should be saved in a PC format, preferably in Microsoft Word (for artwork, see 'Illustrations and photographs'). Text should be double line-spaced, preferably in a serif typeface (eg Times), and margins should be no less than 40mm.

All pages should be numbered.

Papers should have:

a clear, succinct title
an abstract
an alphabetical list of up to 10 key words that encapsulate the main themes
a biographical sketch, including your full name, qualifications, any affiliations or appointments, and a record of academic and professional achievements.

If the paper has been presented at an event, its title, date and venue should also be included.

As papers are refereed under the conventional 'double-blind' system, authors are asked to include their full name and address and biographical sketch on a separate sheet of paper, and not to identify themselves anywhere in the text of the paper.

Illustrations and photographs

Figures, tables and photographs should be included in a paper only if they expand upon the text.

All artwork must be clearly presented and be accompanied by a short caption. The following formats are acceptable:

postscript (.eps)
Adobe Illustrator (.ai)
Macromedia Freehand (.fh).

For photos and bitmap objects, tiff and jpeg files are acceptable at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

References

Authors should use the Vancouver referencing system, numbering each citation in the order it is referred to in the text, eg 'Carter's¹ analysis of evidence-based practice...'. Where there are two authors, names should be linked with an ampersand ('&'), eg 'Beck & Woolfson² argue...'. Where there are three or more authors, use the first named author followed by 'et al.', eg 'O'Dempsey et al.³ suggest that...'.

At the end of the paper, all references should be written out in full. For example:

1. Carter T. The application of the methods of evidence-based practice to occupational health. Occupational Medicine 2000; 50 (4): 231–236.

2. Beck M and Woolfson C. The regulation of health and safety in Britain: from old Labour to new Labour. Industrial Relations Journal 2000; 31 (1): 35–50.

3. O'Dempsey D, Allen A, Belgrave S and Brown J. Employment law and the Human Rights Act 1998. Bristol: Jordans, 2001.

Unpublished material should be referenced by author name(s), title and year, and should be followed by '(unpublished)'.

Footnotes should be placed at the foot of the page on which the reference appears and should be denoted using symbols in the following sequence: * † ‡ § || ¶.

Publication ethics and malpractice statement

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety (PPHS) is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against publication malpractice. Authors who submit papers to PPHS attest that their work is original and unpublished, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. In addition, authors confirm that their paper is their own; that it has not been copied or plagiarised, in whole or in part, from other works; and that they have disclosed actual or potential conflicts of interest with their work or partial benefits associated with it.

PPHS is also committed to objective and fair double-blind peer review of submitted papers and to preventing any actual or potential conflicts of interest between editors and reviewers.

Problems that arise in relation to any of the above are addressed by the Editor, who is committed to providing swift resolutions to disputes.

Copyright

Papers submitted must be original and unpublished, and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. In general, if a paper is accepted for publication, authority to publish elsewhere will not be refused, provided an appropriate acknowledgement is made.

It's a condition of publication that authors assign copyright to IOSH Services Limited. Also, authors must warrant that their paper doesn't constitute an infringement of an existing copyright and that they'll indemnify the publisher should there be any breach of such warranty.

Before submission, authors must get permission from copyright holders to reproduce any copyright material that's to be included in the paper. A copy of this permission should be sent to the publisher. Adequate acknowledgement must also be made in the paper.