Working conditions and occupational accidents: focus on indicators of non-standard work ...

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Working Conditions and Occupational Accidents: Focus on Indicators
of Non-Standard Work Arrangements in Belgium and Europe

Arbeidsomstandigheden en arbeidsgerelateerde ongevallen: focus op indicatoren
van niet-standaard arbeidsvormen in België en Europa

Hanan Alali

Promotoren: prof. dr. ir. M. Abdel Wahab, prof. dr. L. Braeckman
Proefschrift ingediend tot het behalen van de graad van
Doctor in de ingenieurswetenschappen: bedrijfskundige systeemtechnieken
en operationeel onderzoek

Vakgroep Elektrische Energie, Metalen, Mechanische Constructies en Systemen
Voorzitter: prof. dr. ir. L. Dupré
Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen en Architectuur
Academiejaar 2017-2018
ISBN 978-94-6355-063-5
NUR 950
Wettelijk depot: D/2017/10.500/98
Promoters:
Prof. dr. ir. Magd Abdel Wahab
Prof. dr. Lutgart Braeckman

Examination Committee:
Prof. dr. ir. Daniël De Zutter (Chair): Department of Information Technology, Ghent
University.
Prof. dr. ir. Magd Abdel Wahab: Department of Electrical energy, systems and automation,
Ghent University.
Prof. dr. Lutgart Braeckman: Department of Public Health, Ghent University.
Prof. dr. Guy Vanderstraeten: Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy.
Ghent University.
Prof. dr. ir. El-Houssaine Aghezzaf: Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and
Product Design. Ghent University.
Prof. dr. Marc Du Bois: Department of Environment and Health, KU Leuven.
Dr. ir. Phuc Phung Van: Department of Electrical energy, systems and automation, Ghent
University.

Research Institute
Ghent University
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
Department of Electrical Energy, Metals, Mechanical Construction and Systems
(EEMMeCS)
Laboratory Soete
Technologiepark Zwijnaarde 903
B-9052 Zwijnaarde
Belgium

Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected], [email protected].
http://www.soetelaboratory.ugent.be/

Dedicated to my parents, husband and my lovely daughters, Mais & Mira

Acknowledgments
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have been involved with this
thesis directly or indirectly and who helped me to successfully complete this work. Writing
this note of thanks is the finishing touch on my thesis. It has been a period of intense learning
for me, not only in the scientific area, but also on a personal level. Writing this thesis has had
a big impact on me. I would like to reflect on the people who have supported and helped me
so much throughout this period.
Firstly I wish to thank Al-Baath University for the financial support and the Ministry of High
Education in Syria for the research grant.
Secondly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my Promoter: Prof.Dr.ir.Magd
Abdel Wahab who provided me an opportunity to join his team as intern, and who gave
access to the laboratory and research facilities. Without his precious support it wouldn't be
possible to conduct this research.
My sincere thanks also go to my Co promoter Prof.Dr. Lutgart Braeckman for the continuous
support of my Ph.D study and related research, for her patience, motivation, and immense
knowledge. Her guidance helped me in all the time of research and writing of this thesis. You
definitely provided me with the tools that I needed to choose the right direction and
successfully complete my thesis. I could not have imagined having a better advisor and
mentor for my Ph.D study.
Besides my Promoters, I would like to thank the rest of my thesis committee: Prof. El-
Houssaine Aghezzaf, Prof. 'Marc Du Bois, Prof. Rik Van de Walle, Prof. Guy
Vanderstraeten, Prof. Daniël De Zutter and Dr. Phuc Phung Van for their insightful
comments and encouragement, but also for the hard question which incented me to widen my
research from various perspectives.
I would like to thank prof. dr. Tanja Van Hecke from the Department of Information
technology for her wonderful collaboration and valuable guidance. You supported me greatly
and were always willing to help me in the statistical part of my research.
Special thanks are reserved for my husband Kamel ALHASAN and my two lovely daughters
Mais and Mira ALHASAN for supporting me spiritually throughout writing this thesis and
my life in general.
I would like to thank my family from the bottom of my heart: my brothers, sisters and my
dear parents Jamel ALALI, Jouhara ALMANSOUR for their wise counsel and sympathetic
ear (you are always there for me) Without my parent’s unending encouragement, support and
love this work would have not been done. I am deeply grateful for their great support.
Finally, I would like to thank friends and colleagues that made enjoyable time at laboratory
Soete: Yue Tongyan, Kannaki Pondicherry, Kyvia de Fatima Resende Pereira, Sameera
Ramesh Naib, Kaveh Samadian, Jacob Sukumaran, Nadeem Ali Bhatti, Saosometh Chhith,
Junyan Ni, Jan De Pauw, Koen Van Minnebruggen, Timothy Galle, Xiaojun Xu, Ádam
Kálácska, Jules Bossert, Jie Zhang, Klara Bartha, Ming Huang, Nahuel Micone, Jonathan
Vancoillie, Patrick De Baets, Wim De Waele, Stijn Hertelé, Georgette DHondt, Karen
Hemelsoet, Dieter Fauconnier, Tóth Levente Ferenc, Tony Lefevre. Also, I would like to
thank Heid Janssens and Bart De Clercq from the Department of Public Health, Faculty of
Medicine and Health Sciences for their wonderful collaboration.

Thank you very much, everyone!
Hanan ALALI,
March 1- 2017

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