Martin Shain
University of Toronto
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Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society | 2011
Martin Shain
While industrial wind turbines (IWTs) clearly raise issues concerning threats to the health of a few in contrast to claimed health benefits to many, the trade-off has not been fully considered in a public health framework. This article reviews public health ethics justifications for the licensing and installation of IWTs. It concludes that the current methods used by government to evaluate licensing applications for IWTs do not meet most public health ethical criteria. Furthermore, these methods are contrary to widely held fundamental principles of administrative law and governmental legitimacy. A set of decision-making principles are suggested to address this situation that are derived from existing and emerging legal principles in Canada and elsewhere. These include the Precautionary Principle, the Least Impactful Means (Proportionality) Test, and the Neighbor Principle.
Substance Use & Misuse | 1990
Reginald G. Smart; Kenneth R. Allison; Yuet W. Cheung; Patricia G. Erickson; Martin Shain; Eric Single
This paper outlines major research issues for the areas of illicit drug use. Research questions are posed for the following areas: (1) epidemiology and etiology; (2) social policy development; (3) prevention; and (4) treatment.
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society | 2012
Martin Shain; Ian M.F. Arnold; Kathy GermAnn
In Part 1 of this article, the legal and scientific origins of the concept of psychological safety are examined as background to, and support for, the new Canadian National Standard on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace (CSA Z1003/BNQ 9700). It is shown that five factors influencing psychological safety can be identified as being common to both legal and scientific perspectives: job demands and requirements of effort, job control or influence, reward, fairness, and support. This convergence of evidence from legal and scientific perspectives creates a powerful case for the development of a national standard built around these five factors. In Part 2, it is proposed that the introduction of a national standard can be expected in the long run to have positive social benefits since the health or harm that is generated in the workplace does not remain there but migrates into families, communities, and society at large in the form of either social capital or social exhaust. Consequently, psychological safety is a concept that connects the dynamics of the workplace to the health, resilience, and well-being of society at large.
Psychology in the Schools | 2011
David J. De Wit; Kim Karioja; B. J. Rye; Martin Shain
Archive | 1986
Martin Shain; Helen Suurvali; Marie Boutilier
Substance Use & Misuse | 1996
Sverre Fauske; D. Adrian Wilkinson; Martin Shain
Employee Assistance Quarterly | 1996
Martin Shain
Employee Assistance Quarterly | 1985
Judith Groeneveld; Martin Shain
Employee Assistance Quarterly | 1985
Judith Groeneveld; Martin Shain; Donald Brayshaw; Judy Keaney; Les Laird
Archive | 2002
David J. DeWit; Lesley Akst; Kathy Braun; Jennifer Jelley; Lorrie Lefebvre; Christine McKee; B. J. Rye; Martin Shain; Kim Karioja; Blanche Beneteau