Worker representation in health and safety: options for regulatory reform

James, Phil; Walters, David

doi:10.1111/1468-2338.00225

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“…The resulting legislation, however, adopted a more balanced approach believing that the standard of protection afforded to workers would be higher where employees, through their representatives, had a more significant voice and involvement in the consultative process (James and Walters, 2002). Thus in union-recognized firms, and these only, trade unions were able to appoint OHS representatives who could call for the establishment of health and safety committees, investigate potential hazards and complaints and have paid leave to carry out these tasks (as amended by the Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations [SRSC] 1977).…”

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The contemporary British workplace: a safer and healthier place?

Robinson¹,

Smallman

2006

Work, Employment and Society

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Using a nationally representative survey of British workplaces, this article seeks to extend current perspectives on OHS (occupational health and safety) by examining the impact of a range of current work and employment practices, and workforce characteristics on the incidence of workplace accidents and, uniquely, ill health. Our findings indicate that the British Government faces major challenges in terms of its plans for OHS. Ill health, in particular, is poorly served by existing OHS management techniques, while injury and illness seem to be associated with many more 'determinants' in the world of work than has previously been proven. KEY WORDSinjury and illness / occupational health and safety / workforce characteristics / work flexibility / work organization

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The contemporary British workplace: a safer and healthier place?

Robinson¹,

Smallman

2006

Work, Employment and Society

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“…During the last decade, several studies have confirmed the argument that the most effective health and safety committees are those for which both employee representatives and management have been trained and in which representation operates through established trade-union channels (James & Walters, 2002;Walters, 1996). Reilly, Paci, and Holl (1995) showed that injury rates tend to be highest in workplaces where there is a unilateral determination of health and safety by management, and lowest where mechanisms of unionbased representation are present.…”

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Institutional effects on occupational health and safety management systems

Rocha

2010

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Research analyzing the effects of occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS) has been divided roughly between support for and criticism of these systems. This article adopts a new, explorative perspective by analyzing how different national institutional environments are likely to affect the functioning of OHSMS. The argument of this article is that such functioning is greatly dependent on the features of the national institutional environment in which such systems are implemented. The article discusses three ideal types of market economy (i.e., liberal market economy, coordinated market economy, and particularistic environment) in relation to industrial relations systems, prevailing organizational templates, and patterns of skills formation. It assesses the possible impact of these features on the functioning of OHSMS. C

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“…In the specific context of health and safety, research evidence shows that the safest workplaces are those workplaces that have strong trade union representation (James and Walters ; Walters et al . ).…”

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Policing for Whom?

Whyte

2015

Howard J Crim Justice

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This article presents an analysis of recent evidence emerging from the building industry about British state tolerance, and encouragement, of an illegal ‘blacklist’ of workers in the industry. As part of this process, the article argues that the form of policing/regulation that is observable in the case of the blacklisted workers is one that ultimately seeks to guarantee as its primary concern, not the rule of law, but the orderly reproduction of surplus value in the building industry. The article does not suggest that the latter purpose is all that concerns policing/regulation, but it does suggest that it is the principal effect of a combination of various policing and regulatory techniques. In order to achieve orderly reproduction of surplus value, it is argued that building workers are confronted by a form of economic force which is given shape by, and ultimately underpinned by, the system of policing/regulation that at the same time, claims to protect them.

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Worker representation in health and safety: options for regulatory reform

Cited by 43 publications

References 9 publications

The contemporary British workplace: a safer and healthier place?

The contemporary British workplace: a safer and healthier place?

Institutional effects on occupational health and safety management systems

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