Originally published as Employee Relations Volume 28 Number 3, 2006
ISBN: 1 84544 990 8
Guest edited by: Phil James, Middlesex University Business School, UK.
This Special Issue looks and health and safety at work and its relevance to employment relations research.
Throughout the world millions of workers each year suffer injuries and damage to their health as a result of the work they undertake. Such work-related harm obviously has potentially disastrous physical consequences for workers, as well as emotional and financial ones for both them and their families.
Contents:
Economic pressure, multi-tiered subcontracting and occupational health and safety in Australian long-haul trucking
The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between economic pressure, multi-tiered subcontracting and occupational health and safety (OHS) outcomes for employee and owner/drivers in long-haul trucking, using Australian evidence.
Representation and consultation on health and safety in chemicals: An exploration of limits to the preferred model
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of worker representation and consultation on occupational health and safety in the UK in a context in which, following the 1977 Safety Representatives and Safety Committees (SRSC) Regulations 1977, recognised trade unions have the right to appoint health and safety representatives who have rights to representation and consultation and to access the training and facilities needed to support these activities.
Off the rails: factors affecting track worker safety in the rail industry
The purpose of this research is to focus on the serious but under-examined incidence of fatalities and injuries among rail trackworkers. It identifies the pressures on trackwork, locating them within an analysis of the economic structure of the privatised rail industry and illustrates the consequences of these pressures at the operational level.
The OHS regulatory challenges posed by agency workers: evidence from Australia
The purpose of this research is to analyze the problems for occupational health and safety (OHS) regulators posed by agency work/leased labour (also known as labour hire in Australasia), using Australian evidence.
Job retention and return to work of ill and injured workers: Towards an understanding of the organizational dynamics
The purpose of this paper is to put forward a conceptual framework which details the policies and practices that can potentially contribute to the effective management of long-term absences, and hence the return to work and retention of ill and injured workers, and considers how far UK employers currently do have in place management arrangements which accord with those detailed in this framework.
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