Workplace Health and Safety International Perspectives on Worker Representation

by Walters, David; Nichols, Theo

• ISBN13: 9780230214859
• ISBN10: 0230214851
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book provides a cutting edge look at the experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety. Examining the extent to which existing arrangements deliver results, this book reflects on whether the effectiveness of worker representation is eroded or enhanced by current regulatory and organizational constructs.

Author Biography

DAVID WALTERS is Professor of Work Environment and Director of the Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre, UK. He has written and researched widely on the political economy of workplace health and safety, as well as its management regulation, and industrial relations.
 
THEO NICHOLS is Distinguished Research Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales, UK. He has researched and written widely in the field of economic sociology, including on industrial injury and health and safety.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Representing Workers on Health and Safety in the Modern World of Work	p. 1
National Arrangements for Workers' Representation: Case Studies from Europe and Australia
Worker Representation on Health and Safety in the UK-Problems with the Preferred Model and Beyond	p. 19
The Australian Framework for Worker Participation in Occupational Health and Safety	p. 31
Health and Safety Committees in France: An Empirical Analysis	p. 50
Characteristics, Activities and Perceptions of Spanish Safety Representatives	p. 73
An Afterword on European Union Policy and Practice	p. 90
Challenges and Strategies for Worker Representation in the Modern World of Work
Precarious Employment and the Internal Responsibility System: Some Canadian Experiences	p. 109
Employee 'Voice' and Working Environment in the New Member States: Translating Policy into Practice in the Baltic States	p. 134
Health and Safety Representation in Small Firms: A Swedish Success that is Threatened by Political and Labour Market Changes	p. 154
Trade Union Strategies to Support Representation on Health and Safety in Australia and the UK: Integration or Isolation?	p. 177
Worker Representation and Health and Safety: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future	p. 201
References	p. 216
Index	p. 230
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