Workplace Health and Safety

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction: Representing Workers on Health and Safety in the Modern World of Work

   1. Introduction: Representing Workers on Health and Safety in the Modern World of Work

      • David Walters, Theo Nichols

      Pages 1-16

3. National Arrangements for Workers’ Representation: Case Studies from Europe and Australia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Worker Representation on Health and Safety in the UK — Problems with the Preferred Model and Beyond

      • Theo Nichols, David Walters

      Pages 19-30

   3. The Australian Framework for Worker Participation in Occupational Health and Safety

      • Richard Johnstone

      Pages 31-49

   4. Health and Safety Committees in France: An Empirical Analysis

      • Thomas Coutrot

      Pages 50-72

   5. Characteristics, Activities and Perceptions of Spanish Safety Representatives

      • Ana M. García, Maria J. López-Jacob, Isabel Dudzinski, Rafael Gadea, Fernando Rodrigo

      Pages 73-89

   6. An Afterword on European Union Policy and Practice

      • Laurent Vogel, David Walters

      Pages 90-105

4. Challenges and Strategies for Worker Representation in the Modern World of Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Precarious Employment and the Internal Responsibility System: Some Canadian Experiences

      • Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke, Alice de Wolff

      Pages 109-133

   3. Employee ‘Voice’ and Working Environment in the New Member States: Translating Policy into Practice in the Baltic States

      • Charles Woolfson, Dace Calite, Epp Kallaste

      Pages 134-153

   4. Health and Safety Representation in Small Firms: A Swedish Success that is Threatened by Political and Labour Market Changes

      • Kaj Frick

      Pages 154-176

   5. Trade Union Strategies to Support Representation on Health and Safety in Australia and the UK: Integration or Isolation?

      • Rebecca Loudoun, David Walters

      Pages 177-200

   6. Worker Representation and Health and Safety: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future

      • Phil James

      Pages 201-215

5. Back Matter

   Pages 216-232

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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.

• organization
• strategy
• trade

• School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

  David Walters, Theo Nichols

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.

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