This book considers worker representation on health and safety at work. Using international and UK case studies and materials, it examines how existing arrangements deliver results, interrogating the dominant regulatory model. This book is vital for those interested in industrial relations, health and safety, and worker representation.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATION AND CONSULTATION ON HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK AND THE EVIDENCE OF ITS EFFECTIVENESS The Development of Statutory Measures on Worker Health and Safety Representation The Effectiveness of Representative Worker Participation PART TWO: REPRESENTATION AND CONSULTATION IN TWO INDUSTRIES: CASE STUDIES The Chemicals Industry The Construction Industry PART THREE: WHAT WORKS AND ITS POLICY IMPLICATIONS Implementing Effective Worker Representation and Consultation Conclusions and Ways Forward?
Circa l’autore
DAVID WALTERS is Professor of Work Environment at the Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre, UK, and editor of the journal
Policy and Practice in Health and Safety. He has researched and written extensively on the social relations of health and safety in the UK and elsewhere, as well as on work environment regulation generally.
THEO NICHOLS is Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales. He has written widely in the field of Economic Sociology, including on the sociology of industrial injury. His most recent books include
Global Management and Local Labour (with Nadir Sugur),
Labour in a Global World (with Surhan Cam), and
The Other Car Workers (with Erol Kahveci).
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