Download or read book Worker Representation and Workplace Health and Safety written by D. Walters and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Workplace Health and Safety written by David Walters and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Workplace Health and Safety written by David Walters and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In many countries the regulation of health and safety at work underwent a new turn in the 1970s and 80s. This book brings together research that reviews the coverage and effectiveness of the consequent arrangements for worker representation on health and safety that exist in the EU generally, within this specifically in the UK, Spain, France and Sweden, and beyond this in Australia, Canada and the Baltic States. It examines the effectiveness of these arrangements in different countries and how they operate in different sectors and in organisational of different size. It also considers in some detail the conditions that support or constrain these arrangements in different countries, which are generally found wanting, and especially the impact upon them of major political and economic changes in recent years.
Download or read book Employee Representation in Health and Safety at the Workplace written by D. R. Walters and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Worker Representation on Health and Safety in Europe written by David Walters and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comparative overview of national practices in worker representation in health and safety matters in eight European countries. Identifies types of worker representation schemes established and assesses their effectiveness in practice.
Download or read book The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety written by Peter Sheldon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety. Featuring research from Australia, Europe and North America, the chapters traverse important historical examples and place important, emerging contemporary trends, like work in the gig economy, into wider international and historical perspectives. The authors are leading authorities in their fields. The book contributes to advancing our knowledge – empirical and theoretical – of the ways in which labour market dynamics, management strategies, state regulation and public policy, and union organisation affect outcomes for workers. It features in-depth exploration of, and reflection on, some of the major labour market challenges facing workers, and analysis of strengths and weaknesses of responses to those challenges, whether via management, state regulation or collective employee voice. The chapters highlight shifts in in/equality of outcomes; access to security and flexibility at work; genuine access to workplace voice and decision-making; and the implications of different avenues and mechanisms for regulating work and employment. The text is aimed at researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students in work and organisational studies, industrial/employment relations and human resource management, workplace (or occupational) health and safety, employment law, and labour history. It will also be of particular interest to policy makers and practitioners working in the field of workplace health and safety.
Download or read book Worker Representation Through Health and Safety Representatives and Health and Safety Committees written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The role of Worker Representation and Consultation in Managing Health and Safety in the Construction Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Occupational Safety Health written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health and Safety at Work and its Relevance to Employment Relations Research written by Phil James and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Worker Representation and Consultation in Managing Health and Safety in the Construction Industry written by David Walters and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a study of research literature in English, finds linkages between arrangements for worker representation and consultation and improved health and safety outcomes.
Download or read book The Collective Dimensions of Employment Relations written by Tindara Addabbo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores the old and new “collective dimensions” of employment relations. It examines specific challenges stemming from new forms of work of the digital and sharing economy, such as measurement, monitoring, assessment, and remuneration of work, the protection of work-life balance, the impact of new technologies on health and safety, the adaptation of occupational skills to new work processes, and the responses to the digital restructuring of undertakings. It addresses a series of questions such as how the representational action of unions and works councils can adapt to the challenges posed by new production systems and whether the legislative framework needs to be reformed to ensure that digital workers enjoy the right to collective representation. This important collection offers readers a renewed theoretical perspective and justification of the role that the dialogue between workers (representatives) and companies could play in an increasingly complex world of work.
Download or read book Electrical Trade Practices 3e written by Ralph Berry and published by Cengage AU. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electrical Trade Practices, 3e by Berry, Cahill and Chadwick is written to the core practical units of competency from the UEE Electrotechnology Training Package (UEE30820). Assisting apprentice electricians undertaking studies in Certificate III in Electrotechnology Electrician, this text offers simple explanations and clear diagrams to make it easier to understand technical concepts. The content covers all aspects related to most of the core competency units, coverage of AS/NZS 3000:2018, Electrical installations (Wiring Rules), and the text and illustrations follow the layout of the required knowledge and skills as set out in each competency of the Training Package. Just the right amount of technical content has been presented without going into detail on concepts or topics that are not relevant to the student or the associated unit of competency. Electrical Trade Practices is the practical volume that accompanies Phillips, Electrical Principles. Accompanying resources for the instructor include mapping grid, solutions manual and downloadable PDF worksheets. Premium Instructor Resource Pack includes PowerPoints and Test Bank. Premium online teaching and learning tools are available on the MindTap platform. Learn more about the online tools au.cengage.com/mindtap
Download or read book Protection of Health and Safety at the Workplace written by Kai Liu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates four core characteristics of occupational health and safety legal systems in order to provide a comparative and critical analysis of the similarities and differences in protecting the health and safety of workers at the workplace. In addition to analysing the health and safety regulations, the book addresses corresponding oversight and enforcement mechanisms. It compares and contrasts five different legal systems, namely those of the EU, the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden and China. Beyond offering an overview of the modes of OHS regulation, instruments and legal enforcement practices, the book helps to answer the question of how to improve working environments in order to protect workers from all kinds of dangers encountered at the workplace. The intended readership includes researchers with a background in labour law, comparative law, Chinese law and/or European Union law.
Download or read book External Interventions in Occupational Health and Safety written by Geneviève Baril-Gingras and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various studies have shown that worker health and safety are related, among other things, to the characteristics of the organization to which workers belong, and the social interactions taking place within the organization. Our study centres on understanding what influence the context has on creating positive change, in terms of occupational health and safety prevention, resulting from external interventions. Our theoretical framework is based on three complementary sources: the work of Dawson et al. (1988) for whom the organization's “capacity” and “willingness” play a role in explaining the scope and limits of a regime based on the principle of self-regulation; the theory of labour market segmentation, where the influence of the structural characteristics of organizations is examined, and the research undertaken by Reynaud (1988, 1991, 1997) which focuses on the relationships between the actors in the workplace. Seven case studies were carried out during the same number of interventions by joint occupational health and safety sector-based association advisors, in six workplaces. These workplaces varied greatly in terms of size, worker qualification levels, gender and ethnic origin, wage levels and staff turnover. The first case study began in September 1999, and the last ended in the spring of 2000. The data consisted of (non participatory) observations carried out during visits the advisors made at the workplaces (43), semi-structured interviews (50) and telephone conversations (8) with the advisors' contacts and with those actors in a position to influence the intervention and the outcome of the proposed changes. Twenty-six interviews and 41 telephone conversations with the advisors were also analyzed, as were ten other interviews and height telephone conversations for validation purposes. In total, 186 data sources were thus analyzed. Each proposed change was recorded and its outcome documented (accepted or not, implemented or not). Observations support the hypothesis that the structural characteristics of the workplace influence the degree to which prevention activities had been developed at the outset of the intervention, these activities being more developed in cases where the structural characteristics of the workplace match the characteristics of the primary segment of the labour market. However, this relation is not linear or determinative. Furthermore, similarity with the characteristics of the primary segment does not necessarily “guarantee” a high level of organization in prevention. Sustained cooperation between the workplace and the sector-based associations, in setting up an Occupational Health and Safety Joint Committee and establishing a structured set of prevention activities, also helped to further develop these activities. This external support appears to have a moderating effect on the trend defined by the structural characteristics. Observations suggest that prevention activities can be classified in accordance with three large structural stages of prevention. Moving from one level to the next involves a significant qualitative leap in prevention. The outcome of the change proposals was partly contingent on the magnitude of the gap between the activities already in place (and the assets available to sustain them), on the one hand, and the capacities required to put the new activities in place, on the other. The spontaneous structuring of prevention does not follow a logic based on the preventive efficiency of each measure taken, but rather that of the assets that are required. This stresses the relevance of external advice and statutory provisions aiming to organize prevention and ensure worker representation. In order to understand the context in which the interventions take place, our study also examines how, within the framework in the context defined by the structural characteristics of the workplace, the actors regulate the risks associated with the workplace, through their own actions and interactions. The observed OHS regulatory modes can be compared with each other and situated in a continuum where, at one end, they can be qualified as being “unorganized” (due to the “exit” associated with high employee turnover), and at the other end, “organized” with workers forming a collective body allowing for a encounter between employer and employees on the subject of occupational health and safety. This encounter can either be informal, between employees and supervisors, or formal, through a joint health and safety committee, negotiations between a trade union and an employer, etc. This interaction, however, does not guarantee action in the field of prevention, although the formation of a collective body by workers does seem to be an essential step. Results point to the contribution of external advice in structuring the prevention measures. Government intervention is also seen as necessary in order to ensure the organization of prevention and workers representation.
Download or read book Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirroring a worldwide phenomenon in industrialized nations, the U.S. is experiencing a change in its demographic structure known as population aging. Concern about the aging population tends to focus on the adequacy of Medicare and Social Security, retirement of older Americans, and the need to identify policies, programs, and strategies that address the health and safety needs of older workers. Older workers differ from their younger counterparts in a variety of physical, psychological, and social factors. Evaluating the extent, causes, and effects of these factors and improving the research and data systems necessary to address the health and safety needs of older workers may significantly impact both their ability to remain in the workforce and their well being in retirement. Health and Safety Needs of Older Workers provides an image of what is currently known about the health and safety needs of older workers and the research needed to encourage social polices that guarantee older workers a meaningful share of the nation's work opportunities.
Download or read book Trade Union Training in Health and Safety written by Anne Raulier and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
