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Worker Representation and Workplace Health and Safety

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. David Walters

    1. Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

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  2. Theo Nichols

    1. School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Why Worker Representation on Health and Safety at Work?

    1. Introduction: Why Worker Representation on Health and Safety at Work?

      • David Walters, Theo Nichols
      Pages 1-7

  3. The Development of Representation and Consultation on Health and Safety at Work and the Evidence for its Effectiveness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. The Development of Statutory Measures on Worker Health and Safety Representation

      • David Walters, Theo Nichols
      Pages 11-23

    3. The Effectiveness of Representative Worker Participation

      • David Walters, Theo Nichols
      Pages 24-40

  4. Representation and Consultation in Two Industries: Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-44
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    2. The Chemicals Industry

      • David Walters, Theo Nichols
      Pages 45-70

    3. The Construction Industry

      • David Walters, Theo Nichols
      Pages 71-114

  5. What Works and its Policy Implications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Implementing Effective Worker Representation and Consultation

      • David Walters, Theo Nichols
      Pages 117-145

    3. Conclusions and Ways Forward

      • David Walters, Theo Nichols
      Pages 146-165

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 166-177
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About this book

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.

Reviews

"The subject of this excellent book - workers representation in workplace health and safety - is relevant to both policy and practice...This exemplary book reaffirms that OHS has to be understood in the context of the social relations of production and strengthens the evidence of the preventative role of workers representation (and not only 'participation') in occupational safety and health at a time when the 'safety is good for business' discourse is dominant, but promotes more underreporting than prevention measures." - Genevieve Baril-Gingras, Universite Laval

Authors and Affiliations

  • Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

    David Walters

  • School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

    Theo Nichols

About the authors

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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Worker Representation and Workplace Health and Safety

  • Authors: David Walters, Theo Nichols

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210714

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-00194-7Published: 12 April 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28026-1Published: 23 December 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-21071-4Published: 12 April 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 177

  • Topics: Human Resource Management

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