Workplace Health and Safety [electronic resource] : International Perspectives on Worker Representation /
Walters, David.author.
Nichols, Theo.author.
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.
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Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction: Representing Workers on Health and Safety in the Modern World of Work; Part I National Arrangements for Workers' Representation:Case Studies from Europe and Australia; 1 Worker Representation on Health and Safety in the UK - Problems with the Preferred Model and Beyond; 2 The Australian Framework for Worker Participation in Occupational Health and Safety; 3 Health and Safety Committees in France: An Empirical Analysis
4 Characteristics, Activities and Perceptions of Spanish Safety Representatives5 An Afterword on European Union Policy and Practice; Part II Challenges and Strategies for Worker Representation in the Modern World of Work; 6 Precarious Employment and the Internal Responsibility System:Some Canadian Experiences; 7 Employee 'Voice' and Working Environment in the New Member States: Translating Policy into Practice in the Baltic States; 8 Health and Safety Representation in Small Firms: A Swedish Success that is Threatened by Political and Labour Market Changes
9 Trade Union Strategies to Support Representation on Health and Safety in Australia and the UK:Integration or Isolation?10 Worker Representation and Health and Safety: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future; References; Index; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Personnel management.
Behavioral economics.
Economics.
Management science.
Management.
Office management.
Human Resource Management.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.
Economics, general.
Management.
Office Management.