This paper is based on a literature review and interviews made with managers in small-scale nurseries for pot plant production. The review helped to identify the worst occupational hazards in pot plant production. The interviews provided a way to investigate how the nurseries act so as to avoid the worst hazards and what they do to even out work intensive periods during the season in order to get a more even distribution of work over the year. According to available statistics problems with back and shoulders are the most common of the physical disorders and the risk for occupational accidents are high for greenhouse workers. Most of the occupational injuries are connected to musculoskeletal problems. The handling of material is often manual and involves frequent lifting and carrying of heavy loads, the strenuous work postures and static muscular tensions these repetitive tasks are associated with causes straining and overloading.

Declining union memberships are a fact in both Sweden and Finland. At the same time, the autonomous labour market parties and the high membership rates are the most significant factors for the two countries compared to Europe and the rest of the world. These two factors have in turn been developed and strengthened since the beginning of the twentieth century. By autonomous labour market parties I refer to the fact that the labour market parties themselves through collective bargaining are agreeing on the labour market conditions, without interference from the government.This paper is therefore taking it's stance in the question of what happens with the autonomous labour market parties when the membership rates are in decline. With this in mind, this paper describes the judicial development, the collective agreement and labour market structures, the legal consequences of collective agreements and the opportunities of industrial and sympathy action in both Sweden and Finland. The two countries' systems of labour law have caught some negative attention, hence two of the most discussed cases of recent years are given some attention as well. The collective judicial conditions are very similar in both Sweden and Finland regarding the labour market main actors' collaboration, the collective agreement structures and legal consequences and the opportunities of industrial and sympathy action.

Authors: Sofia Eriksson and Malin Wändahl Title: To swim with sharks --? a qualitative study of female journalists work situation in Cape Town due to gender Level: Bachelor of Journalism. Autumn 2013 Location: University of Gothenburg Although the distribution of sex in the South African media houses is equal, research shows that the work conditions for women and men are unequal. Therefore, we have studied how the situation looks like beyond the statistics. The aim of our thesis is to examine, due to gender, how female journalists in Cape Town experience and cope with their work situation in a profession traditionally dominated by men.

It is hard to find streaming waters where humans haven?t affected the fish populations or the running water it self. In many streams the fish populations are over harvested and this results in a lack of older and larger fish. This is also the situation for many populations of Grayling (Thymallus spp.). To be able to develop management plans and to perform actions that improve the situation for the grayling, it is therefore crucial to know what natural, by humans unaffected populations look like.

Bakgrund och problembeskrivning: Nutida leverant?rskedjor som str?cker sig ?ver flera l?nder och industrier, har blivit alltmer komplexa och kr?ver integrering av ekologiska och sociala ?verv?ganden. En viktig aspekt vid den integreringen ?r transparent kommunikation av h?llbarhetsinsatser och prestanda, vilket ?r avg?rande f?r f?retags ?verlevnad. Teknologiska innovationer som blockchain-tekniken utforskas som potentiella l?sningar f?r att f?rb?ttra sp?rbarhet och transparens i leverant?rskedjor, vilket kan m?ta intressenternas krav samt gynna f?retaget och samh?llet i stort. Syfte: Studien unders?ker implementeringen av blockchain-tekniken i ett livsmedelsf?retags leverant?rskedja med fokus p? sp?rbarhet och transparens f?r h?llbarhetskommunikation. Genom att identifiera och utv?rdera dess potential syftar studien till att ge insikter om blockchain-teknikens roll i h?llbarhetskommunikation mellan olika akt?rer, inklusive konsumenter, i leverant?rskedjan. Metod: Uppsatsens forskningsdesign och metod ?r av kvalitativ karakt?r. I denna studie har empirisk data samlats in fr?n ?rsrapporter, webbsidor och pressreleaser.

According to the basic values of the Swedish Trotting Association the horse and its welfare should always be held in highest consideration. One part of the animal welfare work in the organization is to ensure good horse management practices by controlling all active trainers through the local licensing committees situated at the Swedish racetracks. The Swedish Board of Agriculture stated that high quality animal welfare assurance programs used by the industry organizations can be used in the risk assessment of the official animal welfare control to make the official control work more effective and the ambition of the Swedish Trotting Association is to establish an animal welfare assurance program which may be approved by the Swedish Board of Agriculture. Racehorses are exposed to welfare hazards both in their management as well as during training and racing and factors like handling, training, feedstuff, stable environment, medication and the possibility to express natural behavior all affect the welfare of the horses. The aim of the project is to investigate and evaluate the animal welfare work performed by the licensing committees and to give advice on how to improve the industry?s animal welfare control.

Syfte och frågeställningar. Studien syftar till att undersöka medling som social fostran och dess effekter för elevers identitet. Frågeställningar: Hur positioneras barns identiteter i medling som konflikthanteringsmodell? Vilka identiteter erbjuds? Vilken värdegrund vilar medling som konflikthanteringsmodell på? Vad har medling som konflikthanteringsmodell för funktion och betydelse ur ett makt- och styrningsperspektiv? Metod. Diskursanalytiskt angreppssätt med Laclau & Mouffes analysverktyg.

During the last two hundred years many wetlands and streams in Sweden have been lowered to provide land for agriculture and forestry. Some of the coastal wetlands and streams probably served as spawning sites for certain species of fish in the Baltic Sea, but the present situation is not well known. As standardized methods to monitor fish in running waters are carried out during late summer or autumn, there is a need for methods to sample spring-spawning fish in these streams.The aim of this study was to survey the lower kilometer stretch of Hammerstaån in Stockholm, to investigate the extent to which the stream is used by spring-spawning fish. Furthermore, the study aims to evaluate a new type of survey fishing gill net calledströmöversiktsnät (SÖN). This was done by comparing the catch of fish by SÖN with that of fyke nets.

Karin Holmkvist (2014) Sleep, meals and physical activity among professional drivers during the day with work and spare time. Master?s thesis in health at work. University of Gävle. Night work and irregular work hours affects social and biological rhythms in activity, eating, sleep and metabolism. Researchshows how theworking conditions andworking hours affect professional drivers´ lifestyle and there is a negative impact on their health.

The white-backed woodpecker is a forest bird being critically endangered in Sweden. The species is dependent on older forests rich in deciduous trees and dead wood. The main problem for the survival of this species is present shortage of habitat. Conservation work on this umbrella species is at present focused on finding remaining or emerging habitat networks. Large areas are scrutinized in search for suitable habitats to be protected or managed for the species sake.

För företag inom logistik och lager är kostnadseffektiva och pålitliga logistiklösningar viktiga faktorer. Inleverans till lager, plock från lagerhylla, pack till kolli samt leverans till slutkund är exempel på logistiska aktiviteter och ständigt pågår förbättringsarbeten för att kostnadsoptimera och säkerställa att rätt artikel lagras, plockas och levereras på ett säkert och optimalt sätt.Denna examensrapport redovisar en heuristisk metod för att kostnadseffektivt och säkert plocka och packa läkemedel. Systemlösningen för metoden är implementerad och i drift på två av KD Pharmas läkemedelslager i Sverige. Metoden kan härledas från två klassiska, datalogiska problem som var för sig är lösbara med kända algoritmer men som i kombination är ett komplext problem som endast ger lösningar genom iterativa metoder. I akademiska sammanhang brukar dessa två problem kallas ?Traveling Salesman? respektive ?Binpacking?, det vill säga problemlösningar som syftar till att finna kortast väg genom ett nodnät och effektivt packa stycken i boxar.

When the storm Gudrun hit Sweden on the 8th and 9th of January, many recreational forests in southern Sweden blew down. For this reason there is a demand for new regeneration methods as to how these storm-felled areas should be regenerated and with what species. In this study the forest is divided into three areas: production, recreation/production and recreation. The first area is a forest with production as main goal and these kinds of forests are located a bit from the city. The second type ? recreation/production forest ? has two equal goals: production and recreation, and is located close to the city.

In the Kolmården area, northeast of Norrköping in south-central Sweden, it was discovered that shoots of spruce Picea abies, plants to a seemingly large extent had been browsed by deer. The area inhabits a dense red deer population, alongside with moose and roe deer, and red deer is thus suspected to cause the damage. The main purposes of this study are, however, to estimate the extent of the shoot-damage and to investigate what factors that may affect the browsing of shoots. For each stand information was recorded about the age of the plants, area for the stand, height over the sea for the stand, site productivity, type of plants and stand-history. The study was done in three areas: Simonstorp, Stavsjö and Valinge. At Simonstorp and Stavsjö, respectively, 10 stands were chosen for study and on Valinge six stands. In each stand, 10 plots were sampled.

För att effektivisera användningen av GIS (Geografiska Informationssystem) kan distribuerade geografiska informationssystem nyttjas. En sådan distribution åstadkoms ofta genom att en GIS-applikation med enkel funktionalitet publiceras åtkomlig för användare anslutna till ett nätverk, intranät eller Internet. Då fler och fler får tillgång till GIS ökar behovet av att kunna konvertera mellan olika format och mellan olika koordinatsystem. Även här finns krav på effektiviserad och förenklad användning. För att bibehålla datakvaliteten krävs att de verktyg som används, genomför korrekta transformationer och konverteringar samt att de är användarvänliga.

Den första juli år 2000 öppnades den 16 km långa bro- och tunnelförbindelsen mellan Danmark och Sverige. Det öppnades då en helt ny möjlighet för personer och företag att röra sig över gränsen. Byggföretag har traditionellt varit rörliga och när nu bron finns, är det större förutsättningar att ta tillfälliga arbeten på andra sidan gränsen. På den svenska sidan sundet finns inom en tre mils radie från brofästet ett 40-tal aktörer inom jordförflyttning och en naturlig frågeställning för dem är: Vore det möjligt att hyra ut jordförflyttningsmaskiner även i Danmark? Syftet med detta examensarbete är att kartlägga den danska entreprenadmarknaden med avseende på anläggningsverksamhet, samt att ge en ökad förståelse för de faktorer som påverkar svenska företag vid eventuellt inträde på denna marknad.