Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation

by David Walters, Theo Nichols

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349303380
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/10/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2009
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Introduction: Representing Workers on Health and Safety in the Modern World of Work; T.Nichols & D.Walters PART I: REPRESENTING WORKERS ON HEALTH AND SAFETY: IMPLEMENTING THE 'PREFERRED MODEL' IN EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA Worker Representation on Health and Safety in the UK: Problems With the Preferred Model and Beyond; T.Nichols & D.Walters Institutional Arrangements on Health and Safety Representation in Australia; R.Johnstone France: The Impact of Health and Safety Representation in France: An Empirical Study; T.Coutrot Spain: A Spanish Survey on the Activities of Safety Representatives; A.M.Garcia An Afterword on European Union Policy and Practice; L.Vogel PART II: CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR WORKER REPRESENTATION IN THE MODERN WORLD OF WORK Representing Workers on Health and Safety in Precarious Employment: Some Canadian Experiences; W.Lewchuck Employee 'Voice' and Working Environment in Post-communist New Member States: An Empirical Analysis of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; C.Woolfson Health and Safety Representation and Small Firms: Reflections From Sweden; K.Frick Trade Union Strategies to Support Representation on Health and Safety in Australia and the UK: Integration or Isolation? R.Loudoun & D.Walters Reflections; P.James