13. And Defeat Goes On: An Assessment of Third-Wave Health and Safety Regulation

Tucker, Eric

doi:10.3138/9781442673489-016

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“…For example, Walters and Haines (1988) found that worker representatives and joint committees were often ineffective because workers had not been adequately informed about their legal rights, which they linked to the failure of the Ontario law to ensure worker education. In another examination of the Ontario situation, Tucker (1995) suggested that the limited power of joint committees, which are advisory under the law, was further undercut by the declining enforcement resources dedicated to the Health and Safety Inspectorate, a problem that is even more acute in non-union workplaces. In a study of a Nova Scotia mine disaster, Glasbeek and Tucker (1999) demonstrate the enormous impact of labour market pressures and internal management manipulations of those pressures on worker acceptance of hazardous work, while Storey and Lewchuk (2000) document in the asbestos case of Bendix in Windsor, Ontario, the capacity of management to delay action on identified hazards in the face of weak government enforcement.…”

Section: The Literature On Worker Participation In Health and Safety mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet, for many analysts, it is precisely these commonly identified supports for worker activism that can no longer be relied upon. Declining union density, inadequate legislative standards, limited worker training, and weak enforcement systems have all been identified as undermining the effectiveness of worker representatives and joint committees in Canada and elsewhere (Haynes, Boxall and Macky, 2005;O'Grady, 2000;Tucker, 1995;Sass, 1996;Storey and Tucker, 2006;Walters, 1985;Walters and Haines, 1988).…”

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“…While the overall results on firm characteristics have been inconclusive, a number of researchers have pointed to the presence and quality of union representation, the knowledge and militancy of front-line workers, the positive management attitudes and knowledge, and the level of government enforcement of the legislation as factors relevant to joint committee effectiveness or health and safety outcomes (Eaton, 1994;Eaton and Voos, 1994;Hall, 1993Hall, , 1999Kochan, Dyer and Lipsky, 1977;Lewchuk, Robb and Walters, 1996;Milgate, Innes and O'Loughlin, 2002;Novek, Yassi and Spiegel, 1991;Shannon et al, 1992;Shearn, 2004;Tucker, 1995;Walters, 1996aWalters, , 1996bWalters and Haines, 1988).…”

Section: The Literature On Worker Participation In Health and Safety mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…And finally, she identified how medical and other expert discourses can confound workers representatives' capacity to recognize and challenge the presence of hazardous conditions. A number of subsequent Canadian studies adopting the production politics perspective stressed the political, legal, and ideological constraints on workers and worker representatives (Hall, 1993(Hall, , 1996(Hall, , 1999Tucker, 1995;Novek, Yassi and Spiegel, 1991;Ontario, 1986;Russell, 1999;Sass, 1996;Snider, 1991;Storey, 2004;Storey and Tucker, 2006). These critical assessments demonstrate how the limitations of Canadian health and safety legislation and the enforcement apparatus undermine the effectiveness of worker representatives and joint committees.…”

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Sears

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This article elaborates the concept of knowledge activism as a way of understanding effective health and safety representation within the current Ontario legal regime of internal responsibility. Based on interviews with unionized health and safety representatives in the auto industry, we suggest that knowledge activism is a form of political activism by worker health and safety representatives that is organized around the strategic collection and tactical use of technical, scientific and legal knowledge. We argue that knowledge activism is more effective with reference to larger scale changes in work processes, workplace organization and technologies, and with reference to occupational health issues. Knowledge activism is conceptualized as an effective adaptation to a legislative regime which involves worker representatives in decisions without providing substantive power or proactive enforcement support.

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Section: The Literature On Worker Participation In Health and Safety mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Making a Difference

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“…The development of SOHSM can be seen as the culmination of the third-wave of OHS regulation commencing in the 1970s and affecting most industrialized countries, which combined participatory mechanisms for workers with a move to process standards/partial self-regulation (Brooks 2001;Tucker 1995). From a policymaker's perspective, SOHSM has a number of attractions.…”

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Regulating Systematic Occupational Health and Safety Management

Saksvik

Quinlan

2003

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Summary The promotion of systematic occupational health and safety management (SOHSM) represents a comparatively recent but significant realignment of regulatory strategy that has been embraced by many, if not most, industrialized countries. As yet there has been little critical evaluation of the origins and implications of this shift, and to what extent the experience of these measures differs between countries. This article seeks to start the process of answering these questions by comparing SOHSM in Norway and Australia. We identified a number of common challenges (problems of “paper” compliance, limited union input and the growth of precarious employment). In particular, the article highlights the interdependence of OHS and industrial relations regulatory regimes and argues the move away from inclusive collectivist regimes places significant constraints on independent vetting of SOHSM—a crucial element in their effectiveness.

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