An Elegy on Scaffold ─ An Exploration of labors in Construction Industry and Their Families’ Life Adjustment after Occupational Accident and Social Work Intervention.

• Main Authors: Wei-Tang Jiang, 江委螗
• Other Authors: Nian-Zu Hou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91303502619319581716

碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 社會工作學系碩士班 === 98 === According to the statistics and literature discussion we find out, that the duty disaster thousand people rate and the degree of injure in construction industry were much more serious than those of the other industries. And the characteristic of construction industry influences occupational accident victims cope with the event. Therefore, there are three purpose in this study: 1. Explore the occupational accident victims’ demand. 2. Discover the social workers’ position, roles, and what service they provide. 3.Discuss the importance and status of social work interventions. This study is an explorative research. In order to explore the occupational accident victims’ feeling and experience of new life, understand how they cope with the occupational accident, discuss the government and nonprofit organizations’ services, this study will adopt qualitative research method. The occupational accident make the victims have multiple demand. For example, occupational injury workers have serious physical injury and disability cause of high-risk and high-danger of job characteristic in construction industry. The injury worker’s families have to take care of the worker and chores, but have no time to care themselves. The survivors encounter their spouse pass away, they have negative emotion, and could not make others to understand what they feel, they also have responsibilities to maintain family’s economy and nurture their children. The existing service system can not deal with the multiple and long-term demands of occupational accident victims. This study selects association S as research field, this association provides two kinds of service: case work and policy advocacy; the former is to provide legal consulting negotiation for clients and handle labor-management disputes, but could not cope with the multiple demands of clients, and the latter is to originate social movements to initiate policies.On the other hand, council of Labor Affairs offers has taken measures which named“ Family Assistance Project” (referred to as FAP), it takes case management method, and connect with resources from government and NPO according to what clients need. However, most of clients come from Bureau of Labor Insurance, that is at odds with that case managers intervene immediately. It just can cope with current problem of clients by short-term intervention. This study approves the professional specialty of association S, and suggest that it could be use the methods and mode of social work. For example, assess clients’ difficult position and connect suitable resources, and follow up after termination. About FAP, this study also suggests that case managers (social workers) could collect complete information by interviewing the family of client who has different types of occupational hazard (death, disease, and disability). Hiring more case managers(social workers), and making the best use of the volunteers. Both of FAP and association S could take case management as measures to serve occupational accident victims, and consider all resource of society. And further, organizations could cooperate with others, make sure that resource were interchanged among each other, and permit that professional groups could participate in services.